James Cameron, Guillermo Del Toro and Neil Gaiman Working on $300 Million "Journey to the West"
Posted: March 10th, 2011 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
Chinese TV producer Zhang Jizhong has signed best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Coraline) to write the script for a $300 million adaptation of the ancient Chinese folk tale "Journey to the West."
Zhang said that James Cameron will advise on the script and technology issues, such as 3D. He added that several directors are currently being considered, including Guillermo del Toro, who is a close friend of Gaiman. "He has shown a lot of interest but he wants to see the treatment first," said Zhang. "Obviously the more celebrated the director, the busier they are."
"Journey" is a 500-year-old story by Wu Cheng'en, detailing the events that befall the Monkey King, armed with a magic staff, as he journeys with a monk, a pig spirit and a fish spirit to India to retrieve Buddha's scrolls in an effort to find enlightenment.
The goal is to make an epic on a Hollywood scale and to start out with three films initially, each with a budget of at least $100 million.
Source: Variety
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"The Wolfman" Remake Already in the Works
Posted: March 10th, 2011 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
We just heard that Universal Pictures is trying to remake "Doom" and now comes word that studio is planning to remake "The Wolfman," which was released last year and was already a remake.
Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that Universal is currently speaking to writers about the new "Wolfman" movie that will be a period piece and stay closer to George Waggner's classic 1941 film.
Since Joe Johnston's "The Wolfman" grossed only $140 million globally on a $150 million budget, the remake is not being planned for the big screen. Instead, the hope is to start a new direct-to-video franchise similar to what Universal is doing with "Death Race."
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
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Aronofsky and Furman to Weave Intricate Tale
Source: The LA Times March 11, 2011
Brad Furman, the director of the upcoming The Lincoln Lawyer is set to team with Darren Aronofsky for Intricate, The LA Times is reporting.
Set in New York in the 1990s, the film will tell the true story of a college basketball player whose involvement in drug dealing leads him on a downwards spiral.
Furman will direct with Aronofsky producing through Protozoa Pictures. Though his name is most recently associated with the critically acclaimed Black Swan, Aronofsky's second feature, Requiem for a Dream, also told a New York-based drug tale.
Aronofsky's next directing project is the Marvel Comics quasi-sequel The Wolverine
Read more: Aronofsky and Furman to Weave Intricate Tale - ComingSoon.net
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75134
Hemingway & Gellhorn Begins Production Starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman
Filming has begun in San Francisco on the HBO Films production Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Clive Owen ("Closer," "Children of Men") and Academy Award and three-time Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman ("The Hours," "Rabbit Hole") in the title roles. Directed by multiple Academy Award nominee Philip Kaufman ("The Unbearable Lightness of Being," "The Right Stuff") from a script by Jerry Stahl ("CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Permanent Midnight"), along with Barbara Turner ("The Company," "Pollock"), the film also stars Academy Award nominee David Strathairn ("Good Night, and Good Luck," Emmy Award winner for HBO Films' "Temple Grandin"), SAG Award nominee Molly Parker ("The Road," HBO's "Deadwood"), Rodrigo Santoro ("I Love You Phillip Morris," "300"), Golden Globe nominee Parker Posey ("Superman Returns," "A Mighty Wind"), actor-musician Lars Ulrich ("Get Him To The Greek," member of Metallica), Santiago Cabrera ("Che: Part 1," "Heroes"), Saverio Guerra ("Lucky You," "Becker"), Emmy Award nominee Peter Coyote ("Erin Brockovich," "Law & Order"), multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Diane Baker ("Silence of the Lambs," "Joy Luck Club") and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub ("Monk," HBO's "Too Big to Fail").
Hemingway & Gellhorn is executive produced by Emmy winner James Gandolfini (HBO's "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq" and "Wartorn"), Emmy Award nominee Alexandra Ryan (HBO's "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq"), Emmy Award nominee Barbara Turner ("The War Between the Tates"), Academy Award nominee Peter Kaufman ("Quills," "Henry and June"), Philip Kaufman and Trish Hofmann ("Notorious," "The New World"). Nancy Sanders ("Huff") and Mark Armstrong ("Holla If You Hear Me") are co-executive producers. The production team includes three-time Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch ("The English Patient," "Apocalypse Now"), director of photography Rogier Stoffers ("Quills," "John Q"), Academy Award-nominated production designer Geoffrey Kirkland ("The Right Stuff," "Get Low") and Academy Award-nominated costume designer Ruth Myers ("Emma," "L.A. Confidential").
Various locations in and around San Francisco will be used to represent Key West, Spain, China, Cuba and New York.
Scheduled to debut on HBO in 2012, Hemingway & Gellhorn recounts the tumultuous romance and subsequent marriage of literary master Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and up-and-coming war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman), following them through the Spanish Civil War and beyond. As she grew in reputation and stature, Gellhorn stood toe-to-toe with Hemingway, putting his famous bravado and iconic style to the test.
Hemingway & Gellhorn comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, Rodrigo Santoro, Tony Shalhoub, David Strathairn, Molly Parker, Patrick Mapel, Santiago Cabrera. The film is directed by Philip Kaufman.
Sources: HBO Films
http://www.movieweb.com/news/hemingway-gellhorn-begins-production-starring-clive-owen-and-nicole-kidman
