Cowboys, Indians & Aliens?
Brian Grazer and
Ron Howard will ‘Imagine’ “
Cowboys & Aliens” to the big screen.
The “
Da Vinci Code” team have joined Dreamworks and Universal Pictures to bring the popular graphic novel to cinemas.
The film, written by
Mark Fergus and
Hawk Ostby, mixes Western and science fiction genres. Set in 1800s Arizona, a skirmish between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of a space ship. The alien commander plans to tame the Old West and enslave everyone, but the cowboys and Native Americans turn their six-guns against the alien invaders.
Tom Hanks or
Russell Crowe? Which one do you think will get the starring role?
Pred-Alien in Alien vs Predator sequel?
When you prep a sequel you really need to up the ante, add something that we've never seen before, which appears to be the case with 20th Century Fox's
Alien vs Predator 2: No Peace on Earth.
Today an image began circulating the web that shows what appears to be an Alien-Predator hybrid! The pic can be viewed
here.
In this follow-up the iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever, wage war in an American Midwestern town - with the residents caught in the middle.
The Strause brothers-directed flick opens on December 25th nationwide.
First Official Image from "SAW IV"
Today Lionsgate provided the first look at
Darren Lynn Bousman's
Saw IV, which hits theaters everywhere on October 26.
Plotline - Jigsaw still haunts the living in
Saw IV, forcing them to appreciate life, or face death. As a continuation of
Saw III, Jeff must find his daughter and escape the building to which they are confined before they both die. After finding another tape of Jigsaw, Jeff realizes there may be a newly added piece of the puzzle that he must decipher before it’s too late.
Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Lyriq Bent, Justin Louis, Costas Mandylor & Angus Macfadyen all return.
The image can be viewed
here.
Strathairn headlining "Two Sisters" remake
David Strathairn has signed on to topline the horror remake
A Tale of Two Sisters for DreamWorks.
Elizabeth Banks (
Slither) already has joined the project, which is based on
Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean thriller of the same name.
Strathairn will play a concerned father of two girls who return home after spending time in a mental institution. Once there, they are forced to deal with their stepmother's (
Banks) obsessive and unbalanced ways as well as an interfering ghost.
Brothers
Thomas and
Charles Guard will direct "
Sisters," which is scheduled to start filming next month in Shreveport, La.
Craig Rosenberg penned the screenplay, with a rewrite from
Carlo Bernard and
Doug Miro.
Stephen King & Frank Darabont talk on "The Mist"
Stephen King knows it's the little things that frighten the most.
So it's fitting that the best-selling novelist, who has had more film adaptations from his work than any modern author, finds his short stories capturing Hollywood's attention these days.
Among them are the sinister hotel-room thriller
1408, opening Friday, the creatures-in-the-fog story
The Mist, coming in November, and last year's TNT miniseries
Nightmares & Dreamscapes, featuring eight short tales as hour-long episodes.
"When you have a shorter piece of fiction, one of the things that's attractive to filmmakers is the idea, 'We can riff on this. We can do more to it,' "
King says, adding, "It gives them wiggle room."
Filmmakers say his short stories and novellas translate better to the screen because, unlike an epic-sized novel, huge portions of the story don't have to be dropped, irking readers and leaving the occasional massive plot hole.
Eli Roth was planning to adapt
King's cellphone zombie novel
Cell, which has an explosively violent opening sequence. But
Roth recently said the project is on hold.
The next
King adaptation is
The Mist, about residents of a small town who take shelter in a grocery store during a storm and begin to turn on one another when creatures that may be harbingers of the apocalypse arrive in the clouds.
Frank Darabont, the writer/director of
King movies
The Shawshank Redemption and
The Green Mile (which had four Oscar nominations, including adapted screenplay and best picture), is making
The Mist, from
King's 1985 collection
Skeleton Crew.
He says the difference between a
King short story and a
King novel is the difference between going 10 rounds with the author in a boxing ring or having him rush up with a sucker punch. "It's his chance to take one cool idea he wants to whap you upside the head with. It's the difference between writing a great pop song and an opera."
Darabont previously focused his efforts on
King's straighter dramas but wanted to tackle the author's horror storytelling for a change: "I wanted to make a very direct, muscular kind of film."
As for
King's wiggle room: "You don't want to come in and put your fingerprints all over everything, but in translation from page to screen, there is always some reinvention."
In the case of
The Mist,
King praises a new ending
Darabont crafted, saying it is so unsettling that for many years no studio would touch it. "The ending is such a jolt — wham! — it's frightening. But people who go to see a horror movie don't necessarily want to be sent out with a Pollyanna ending."
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