Details of "Troll" remake from director
Writer-director
John Carl Buechler dropped a few quick notes on his upcoming remake of
TROLL, starting with his goals on improving upon the first film, "Finally I'm getting the opportunity to do it right this time. The term 'family friendly' should not be missunderstood. Please understand that this vision of the movie will be DARK, and edgy with a sweeping scope reminescent of Lord of the Rings. NOT CAMPY."
One of the main things was the FX, which he explains "will be over-the-top and outrageous." And in response to many of the blogs he's read he writes, "Many are concerned that the effects will be the thin CGI/video game style. This will not be the case," he explains, "While we will employ the latest in CGI, we will also utilize a great many live-action effects."
You want a taste of what you'll see in
TROLL? Then all you have to do is check out Adam Green's
HATCHET this September, which
Buechler created the FX for. "I am devoted to the best in live action physical effects," he tells.
He also explains that the characters are deeper and more fleshed out, which is an important step in making a good film.
The film is about a young boy enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good witch. Soon the boy learns that he must save the world from an evil Troll/Wizard that has the ability to hide his essence within the bodies of others.
TROLL begins lensing this September.
Disney re-making its classic "Witch Mountain"
Andy Fickman is coming on board to direct "
Witch Mountain," Walt Disney Pictures' modern re-imagining of its classic 1975 adventure movie "
Escape to Witch Mountain."
Disney-based
Andrew Gunn is producing via his Gunn Films banner.
The 1975 film was based on a science fiction novel by
Alexander Key and followed a pair of siblings, endowed with paranormal powers, who go on the run from a diabolical group of men who wish to exploit their abilities. The brother and sister turn out to be extraterrestrials.
The movie hatched a sequel, "
Return to Witch Mountain," best remembered for having
Bette Davis and
Christopher Lee in the cast, as well as a made-for-TV movie "
Beyond to Witch Mountain" that was to have been a pilot for a TV series.
Gunn Films'
Ann Marie Sanderlin is exec producing.
Brigham Taylor and
Casey Wolfe are overseeing for Disney.
"
Mountain" is a high priority at the company and
Fickman's involvement kicks it into gear.
Fickman is quickly making Disney his new home. He directed the studio's upcoming family comedy "
The Game Plan," starring
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and recently set up the family comedy "
Pool Rats," which is a semiautobiographical story inspired by
Fickman's youth.
"Spawn" remake explained by McFarlane
McFarlane explains with some really interesting comments, "Right, I'd call this more of a suspense thriller. I'm going to use a big example which may seem sort of loopy, but to me it's closer to "
Jaws" in that — and this is one of the problems that some of the studios had — Spawn won't talk. He's just a being in this movie — which again, some people may find odd — but, you know, Jaws didn't talk a hell of a lot in his movie either. But you knew that when he came out, something was going to happen. You know what I mean? You've made the presence known enough that nothing good was going to come of his presence being there.
So it's sort of the same concept. I'm not going for Freddy Krueger horror and I'm not going for Spider-Man action superhero. I'm not even going for a guy who's going to sit there and talk. You're never actually ever going to see him in his cape or costume in any kind of direct light. It's just going to be this thing that's just going to come, and if it's there then buddy, you're going to have a bad day."
You can read the entire interview
here.
Warner Bros bringing DC's Horror-Western Jonah Hex
Warner Bros. Pictures is saddling up to bring DC Comics' Western anti-hero comic book "
Jonah Hex" to the big screen, with filmmakers
Mark Neveldine and
Brian Taylor on board to adapt.
Andrew Lazar is producing via his Mad Chance Prods., as is
Akiva Goldsman.
Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, was a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always ended in blood.
"Hex" first appeared in the early 1970s in the issues of "All-Star Western" before graduating to his own series in 1977 that ran for about 10 years. A new series was launched in 2005. The character also had a run in the 1990s that combined the Western genre with supernatural elements.
The filmmakers are not making a straight-ahead Western but plan to develop the character with some of the supernatural overtones in the hopes of creating a franchise.
Greg Silverman and
Elisha Holmes are overseeing for Warners.
Gregory Noveck is overseeing for DC.
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