Archive for May 30th, 2007
Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading video game publishers, has announced that it will develop and publish the video game based on Paramount Pictures’ and Shangri-La Entertainment’s Beowulf, the upcoming feature film from Academy Award®-winning director Robert Zemeckis.
Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary adapted the legend for the screen. The film is produced by Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke. The executive producers are Martin Shafer, Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman.
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Variety reports that Scott Stuber and Mary Parent are preparing The Wolfman for a December start in London, with Mark Romanek directing.
The original 1941 Universal version of The Wolfman starring Lon Chaney Jr and Claude Rains tells the story of Lawrence Talbot (Chaney) who returns to his ancestral home in Wales and is attacked by a werewolf, who infects him with the curse of lyncanthropy.
Earlier reports suggested that Benicio Del Toro is attached to the project.
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According to Empire Online, Chris and Paul Weitz will begin work on adapting Michael Moorcock’s Elric after completing their work on His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass.
‘ [it's] one Of the great classic fantasy series, it’s the one that hasn’t been done yet’ Chris Weitz told Empire Online. ‘My brother, Paul, and I liked those books growing up, and we’ve met Michael Moorcock, and he trusts us to take those books forward.’
Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by author Michael Moorcock in 1961, later appearing in the novel Elric of Melniboné in 1972, which became the first of a series of books.
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Variety reports that David E. Kelley has hired The West Wing and Studio 60 helmer Thomas Schlamme to direct the pilot for the US version of Life on Mars.
Schlamme will also executive-produce the pilot, which is in preproduction and slated to shoot sometime this summer. Kelley, Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone are also executive-producing.
Life on Mars is an International Emmy-winning British television drama series, which was first shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. The series follows the exploits of DCI Sam Tyler of Greater Manchester Police (originally played by John Simm), who, after being hit by a car in 2006, finds himself somehow transported back to 1973.
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Posted in Television •
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.