THE TWILIGHT SAGA Producers to Make BABAR Movie
Source: collider.com
The Twilight Saga producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are planning to adapt the classic children’s book series Babar into a feature film. Deadline reports that Bowen and Godfrey’s production company, Temple Hill, has made a deal with rights holders Nelvana and The Clifford Ross Company to generate family films around the “King of the Elephants”. Temple Hill is currently in production on Babar: The Adventures of Badou and Godfrey and Bowen are currently in the process of shopping around a blueprint of the Babar movie that would be a live-action/CGI hybrid family comedy. Could someone give me an example of a live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of a children’s book that was a good movie? I’m struggling to think of one and coming up with nothing.
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Quentin Tarantino may (or may not) direct The Shadow
Source: blastr
Remember that 1994 movie about The Shadow? We do, though we wish we didn’t. (Sorry, Alec Baldwin!) Luckily, a new big-screen adaptation is coming, one we’ve known about for a while. But the latest news on the project—one that might be nothing more than a rumor—could bring aboard a new director who’d wipe that earlier film from our minds.
According to pajiba, Quentin Tarantino is currently in discussions to direct:
… the person that is now attached to the project is none other than Quentin Tarantino, who is also attached as co-writer. … The Shadow has never been mentioned among the 27 dozen projects that Tarantino has always been obsessed with. Maybe he loved original radio show and the pulps (which do seem up Tarantino’s alley), and maybe he saw Siavash Farahani’s script and decided that, if anyone could erase the memory of Alec Baldwin’s atrocity, it’d be him.
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Stephen Sommers is making yet another G.I. Joe movie
Source: io9.com
Whether you wanted it or not, the Joes are back! Fingers crossed for more mind-wiping nanotech and Sienna Miller in pleather.
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Ridley Scott’s Forever War writer revealed (and it’s GOOD news)
Source: Blastr
Last year, Ridley Scott told us that he had a “good writer” hard at work on the script for his 3-D version of Joe Haldeman’s classic novel The Forever War. Then, a couple of months ago, Scott added that the screenwriter was “on a fourth draft of the adaptation.” But he never revealed the NAME of that writer. Now Haldeman—perhaps inadvertently—has.
Over on his blog, Haldeman wrote yesterday that:
Scott has a script; last I heard, it was the fourth rewrite. I’ve talked to the writer — he has good credits, like Unforgiven.
And who’s credited with writing Unforgiven? David Webb Peoples, who also wrote the screenplay for Twelve Monkeys, Ladyhawke … and Blade Runner.
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Okay, I have to let my inner child have it’s say first. BABAR! BABARBABARBABARBABAR! *Coughs* Back now. In all honesty – I can’t think of a live action kid’s movie adapted from a book that I could really say was good.
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