New Films in Production

[moviscop]

Honestly, Herzog never ceases to amaze

Werner Herzog, David Lynch take on murder drama

CANNES -- Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for "My Son, My Son," a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.

If anyone has IMDb pro, there should be more information regarding this project. it looks very strange and interesting.

[chaddoli]

I do and there isn't really anything else known.

My Son, My Son (2010) USA

IN DEVELOPMENT*

Status: Script
Contact: Absurda
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Production Co: Absurda

Genre: Drama / Horror /
Source Material: True Story

Filmmakers:
Directed by
Werner Herzog

Writers
Herbert Golder Screenplay
Werner Herzog Screenplay

Producers
Eric Bassett ... producer
David Lynch ... executive producer

Production Companies
Absurda

Other Companies
Absurda ... international sales

*IN DEVELOPMENT
The status was last updated on 15 May 2008.
Since this project is categorized as being in development, the data is subject to change or could be removed completely.

[Antoine Doinel]

School of Rock 2: America Rocks

Wong Kar-Wai has his next project lined up.

Diablo Cody to pen Spielberg comedy idea.

[exte]

I do and there isn't really anything else known.

Off topic, but is IMDb Pro worth it? Is it like Hollywood Reporter and Variety combined or something? Do they have a lot of agreements with all these publications for an online thing at IMDb?

[Antoine Doinel]

IMDB Pro is worth it if you're working in the industry. From what I recall, I believe you gain access to reams of contact info that you can't get from regular access, as well as more info in projects that are in very early stages of development.

[exte]

Thanks Antoine...

[moviscop]

Friday the 13th Remake

Ft13 Blog

First Still

Big thanks to Michael Bay for bringing this little gem to us.

[Dylan]

Tim Burton is making his version of Alice in Wonderland.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is in final negotiations to walk through the looking glass in Burton's take on Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel "Alice in Wonderland." The deal marks the end of a long search for the big-budget project's title character.

The film, based on a script by Linda Woolverton ("The Lion King"), will be produced by longtime Burton collaborator Richard Zanuck, former Disney chairman Joe Roth and Jennifer and Suzanne Todd. It will be shot with live-action and performance-capture footage and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. Disney creative executive Jason Reed will oversee the project, set to begin principal photography in November.

Wasikowska got her start on the Aussie series "All Saints" and is a regular on HBO's "In Treatment." She next will appear opposite Daniel Craig in Ed Zwick's war drama "Defiance" and just completed filming the role of a young Amelia Earhart fan in Mira Nair's biopic "Amelia," starring Hilary Swank.

Wasikowska is repped by Endeavor and RGM Associates.

The tentative release date is March 2010.

Meanwhile, I'm assuming the Believe it or Not project is either on hold or has another director attatched.

[Cosmic Bus]

Aronofsky is officially helming a fourth Robocop film, and a Tron sequel is unveiled, with Jeff Bridges and architect-turned-commercial-director Joseph Kosinski in tow.

[moviscop]

Aronofsky is officially helming a fourth Robocop film, and a Tron sequel is unveiled[/url] in tow.

I will keep my fingers crossed, I still have hope in Aronofsky.

[Jeff]

Tim Burton is making his version of Alice in Wonderland.

Is there even a remote chance that Johnny Depp won't be playing The Mad Hatter?

[kaujot]

Johnny Depp will play Alice.

[Kirkinson]

I'm a fairly strong fan of Tim Burton and a positively obsessive fan of Lewis Carroll, but I'm not at all enthusiastic about this project. A special effects extravaganza is absolutely the wrong way to go about translating the book to film. It's a very strangely structured, episodic story that doesn't lend itself well to the Hollywood three-act tradition, and it's also a very talky book where most of the charm and humor comes from the wordplay. Despite Burton's presence, the fact that this is a big-budget, high-profile Disney film written by one of their regular scribes makes me very worried that they'll try to downplay the dialogue in favor of effects sequences and impose some sort of moral goal onto the story to give it a false sense of traditional plot progression. Add the inevitable list of celebrity cameos and we'll end up with what is essentially a more expensive version of the Hallmark/NBC TV-movie from 1999 (which has its moments -- Gene Wilder can't help but be utterly charming as the Mock Turtle -- but is largely a grating chore to get through).

The only way this can be saved is if Burton really asserts himself in process. Carroll's work can be a tremendous springboard for filmmakers who want to do something original and idiosyncratic with the material (like Svankmajer) and Burton has expressed a great deal of respect for the books in the past. I remain extremely wary, though.

Is there even a remote chance that Johnny Depp won't be playing The Mad Hatter?

There is, if he ends up playing the Cheshire Cat instead. Of course, this is a motion-capture movie, so he could end up playing both parts and more. I wonder where Helena Bonham Carter will show up (the Queen?).

[Antoine Doinel]

[Antoine Doinel]

Ridley Scott's Nottingham has been put on hold.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Belmondo is back. His first feature in nearly 10 years, Un homme et son chien, is a remake of Umberto D of all things. The cast seems to include many other geriatrics including Micheline Presle, Max von Sydow, Charles Aznavour, Pierre Mondy, Francoise Fabian and Jean-Pierre Marielle. Everybody but Alain Delon, though his son Anthony is in it.

[domino harvey]

Belmondo is back. His first feature in nearly 10 years, Un homme et son chien, is a remake of Umberto D of all things.

I could have sworn he was dead

[Antoine Doinel]

Wong Kar-Wai has his next project lined up.

Details on WKW's involvement in the wedding, including his soundtrack selections.

Terry Gilliam to take another stab at Don Quixote.

[chaddoli]

Tim Burton is making his version of Alice in Wonderland.

Is there even a remote chance that Johnny Depp won't be playing The Mad Hatter?

Ding ding ding! (apologize for the source)

Casting Tim Burton movies is so easy...

[John Cope]

Great, great news for fans of Philip Ridley. I can't believe I missed this until now. Luckily I stumbled across it during one of my semi-regular searches for the OOP French Darkly Noon (and I found that this time, too!).

[Jeff]

Casting Tim Burton movies is so easy...

It really is. At least Depp already has the costume. Now is there any doubt about HBC as The Queen of Hearts?

In other news...

Robert De Niro is near a deal to join Mel Gibson in "Edge of Darkness," the Martin Campbell-directed feature for Graham King's GK Films. Shooting begins this month in Massachusetts.

Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a straitlaced homicide detective for the Boston Police Dept. and single father, whose 24-year old daughter is murdered on the steps of his home. The cop assumes he was the target, but his investigation leads in another direction and uncovers his daughter's secret life, a corporate cover-up and government collusion.

De Niro will play an operative sent to clean up the evidence.

Pic marks the first film that Gibson has toplined since "Signs" and "We Were Soldiers" in 2002. Scripted by William Monahan, the drama is an adaptation of a 1985 BAFTA-winning six-hour BBC miniseries that Campbell also directed.

King is financing the picture and has received a SAG waiver. He will produce with Michael Wearing, who served in that capacity in on the mini. BBC is also producing.

Deal marks the first for Endeavor since signing De Niro, who recently completed "Everybody's Fine" and will next be seen starring with Al Pacino in the Jon Avnet-directed "Righteous Kill."

[Fletch F. Fletch]

An unofficial sequel to Streets of Fire?!

Insofar as they can without being sued by the studio that owns the rights.

Here is the official site.

[Matt]

I weep for my people (and for horror fans, Poe fans, Corman fans, and anyone whose eyes ever happen to clap onto one of these "films") over this news:

David DeCoteau redoing horror films
Cult director inks deal for 10 films, two TV series

By Gregg Goldstein

Aug 5, 2008, 06:53 PM ET
NEW YORK -- Several classic horror tales are getting a gay makeover courtesy of Regent Studios, its sister cable channel Here! Networks and cult director David DeCoteau.

The helmer has inked a two-year deal with Regent to direct 10 films and two television series through his Rapid Heart Pictures shingle.

The projects, some of which will be released theatrically by Regent in the fall, include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and adaptations of works by H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New features will also be made for "The Brotherhood" and "The Invisible Chronicles," two ongoing TV/DVD series.

All of the legendary tales in the slate will be refashioned to include gay themes, as was DeCoteau's recently released Poe adaptation "House of Usher." The only film confirmed for release this Fall is the "pansexual" film noir "Playing With Fire," starring Susan Anton and Michael Bergin.

DeCoteau has produced and/or directed more than 50 genre films over the past two decades, including "Leeches!" "Creepozoids" and "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama," after his start in the mid-'80s gay porn industry.

The title IMDb has for Playing With Fire is The Devil is a Woman. It may be a coincidence, but I have been dreaming of making a queer version of La Femme et le pantin for years and so help me God if fucking David DeCoteau is beating me to the punch with "Stop Susan Williams" and a washed-up underwear model...

[chaddoli]

Natalie Portman is starring in David Gordon Green's remake of Suspiria =P~

[Dylan]

Natalie Portman is starring in David Gordon Green's remake of Suspiria

Anybody know if Scott Heim (Mysterious Skin) is still writing the screenplay for this?