Infuze Magazine has interviewed Walden Media’s Bob Beltz and asked him about The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the second adaptation from the C.S. Lewis fantasy series which will start principal photography this month.

When asked how faithful the script will be to the book, Beltz said “It’s pretty close. Andrew Adamson is gonna direct again. Most of the same crew is working on this one. Mark Johnson will produce again. A lot of the cast and crew will be the same. Now, I don’t think that will the case for all seven. I don’t think Andrew Adamson wants to spend the rest of his life on this one series. But the script… let me put it this way: All of the elements from the book are present. It’s not as easy of a book to adapt as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was simply because it has a little bit of a different structure and Andrew wanted to rearrange some of the elements for dramatic effect. But everything that is in the book will be in the film.”

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Universal has won the bidding rights to the unpublished fantasy manuscript called Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper. The studio is eyeing the adaptation as a directing vehicle for Pleasantville helmer Gary Ross with production duties being handled by Allison Thomas and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. Ross is currently working on a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Written by first-time novelist Michael Reisman, the young-adult novel is the first in an intended series. It follows an 11-year-old boy and his two friends, who get possession of a physics book that enables them to alter the physical properties of the world, including gravity. The book describes a magical world based on physical laws of science, and future installments will incorporate other sciences, such as biology and chemistry. The book will be published in August by Penguin.

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Brendan Fraser has a lot on his plate– along with the third installment in the Mummy Franchise and the Jules Verne adaptation Journey 3-D, the actor will also play the lead in fantasy movie Inkheart.

In a recent interview, Fraser told SCI FI Wire how shocked and flattered he was to learn that Cornelia Funke, the novel’s author had always envisaged him as the main character of Mo.

“It’s something that I never anticipated. Least of all learning about it in an article that I read. She had given an interview and answered the question about what inspired the character. And authors and novel writers, as far as I understand it, the way their process works sometimes—and I know in her case—she says that the novel writes itself. So this may sound a bit, to my sensibility, a bit odd, she said that she was able to work backwards. … I think she was probably watching some films or heard something that I’d done and it inspired her character, I guess.”

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Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been talking to EW about her movie comeback as Pepper Potts in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man adaptation.

“I play Pepper Potts, who’s Iron Man’s assistant. They have a very charged dynamic,” Paltrow said, going on to explain why she’s opted to choose such a mainstream role- “I hadn’t worked in a long time, I was really committed to being home. Then I finally just agreed to do this movie Iron Man. I reached a place in my life where I thought, ‘It’s okay that I have a passion for something besides my family.’ I love making films. If I do one thing that makes me fulfilled, then I’m a more interesting woman for my children. And then I got this call, and I thought, I love Jon Favreau. And the cast was so good. This feels right to me.”

“You know why?” she continued, “Because of the people involved. It had nothing to do with the size of the budget. It was like, if I got a call that there’s a six-million-dollar movie, and these are the people, I’d do it. I’ve always wanted to work with Robert Downey Jr. He’s a genius, and I had never been asked to do a film with him before. I’m really excited that it’s Iron Man because I’ve never done anything like it. I’m really thrilled.”

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It seems that the same digital technology employed to take years off Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen in X-Men 3: The Last Stand will be used to create a youthful William Stryker for the Wolverine movie.

In an interview with Johnathon Ross on the BBC’s Film 2007 programme, Brian Cox was asked about his involvement in the project and replied “it’s set seventeen years ago, which is fine for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine doesn’t age but for me, I’m thinking they could what they did with Patrick and Ian for the start of the third one. I know my character is in it, they’ve asked me to be in it but that was a while ago now, it’s completely stalled so no start date as yet.”

To produce the startling effect, old photographs will be used to digitally re-skin the actor’s face and even adjust his physique as required for the role.

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In an interview with CISN Country 103.9, Dan Ackroyd has revealed that Ghostbsters 3 will go ahead, but not in the form that you might expect.

The movie will be produced entirely in CGI rather than live action and will be based on the ‘Hellbent’ script that Ackroyd developed a number of years ago. The story will be set in an alternative hellish Manhattan to which the Ghostbusters are transported via a portal in a New York warehouse. The original cast will lend their voices to proceedings.

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Buffy creator Joss Whedon announced yesterday on fan website Whedonesque that he’s no longer attached to the Wonder Woman project.

Whedon has been linked to the movie as writer-director since spring 2005, and this news comes hot on the heels of Warner Bros attempting to quietly buy a different Wonder Woman script that was set against a World War II backdrop. It was claimed that the purchase was made to avoid any conflict with Whedon’s now-defunct script, but this latest move could suggest that the studio might have found an alternative story.

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Source: EW

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