Anna Paquin’s ‘True Blood’ to Get Film Treatment
“True Blood”, the HBO hit series starring Anna Paquin, is reportedly going to be adopted onto the big screen. Whats Playing has recently brought up report that since the vampire drama revolving around Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton have become a phenomenon, the network is putting into consideration of making a movie out of it.
While the big screen treatment is claimed to be on HBO’s top priorities, they won’t rush into developing one too quick. The site teased that a movie won’t come out before one or more two seasons of the Alexander Skarsgard-starred series playing on small screen. A source added that series own creator Alan Ball might have the “chance” to direct should the project is being picked up for real.
DC to play bigger role at Warner Bros.
Advice to Warner Bros. film execs: If you’re in a meeting with CEO Barry Meyer discussing DC Comics superheroes, you might want to think twice before saying things like, “But Batman wouldn’t say that.”
Meyer relayed the story of such a meeting while talking about how DC was going to play a much bigger role at the film studio going forward. He was speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference.
There will be an organizational announcement next week, then in about a month Warner Bros. will unveil a spread sheet detailing how the various superheroes will be reintroduced to consumers, and on more than just feature film platforms.
Meyer said Warner Bros. has been looking after DC in a “custodial way,” but it’s now time to get “much more entrepreneurial.” The superheroes of DC, though, may not be enough to make up for the loss of “Harry Potter” after the final installment of that movie franchise is released July 15.
Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning Cast in Super 8
The cloak of secrecy surrounding the J.J. Abrams–Steven Spielberg collaboration is starting to be lifted, ever so slightly: Vulture has exclusively learned the names of the first two actors cast in Super 8 — and one of them is going to send fans of Friday Night Lights into a tizzy. Kyle Chandler, who stars as Coach Taylor on the soon-to-end DirecTV/NBC football drama, has landed a role in the film, a source with knowledge of the matter tells us. Also cast, per sources: 12-year-old Elle Fanning (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), sister of Dakota.
I’m not sure what I think of a True Blood movie. What do you think? I might be persuaded if Eric is nekid. I’m just not sure, unless it was an amazing script, that I would want to see a 1.5-2 hour True Blood movie.
