New Films in Production

[Antoine Doinel]

Zhang Yimou's next film will be about the founding of Communist China.

[Antoine Doinel]

Dakota Fanning to play Cherie Currie in a biopic on the Runaways.

[Cde.]

Zhang Yimou's next film will be about the founding of Communist China.

Wow, he really is a sell-out.

[Antoine Doinel]

Le Diner Du Cons is being remade as Dinner With Schmucks - Steve Carell and Paul Rudd are in the lead roles.

[Antoine Doinel]

Wes Craven is pouting because they are rebooting A Nightmare On Elm Street and they didn't even ask for his input.

[Antoine Doinel]

The creator of the Sopranos is developing a mini-series about early Hollywood for HBO called Ribbon Of Dreams. The plot will focus on

....two main characters as they begin as employees of D.W. Griffith, and then cross career paths with John Ford, John Wayne, Raoul Walsh, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder and others who gave shape to Hollywood as it grew from the age of rough-hewn silent Westerns, to the golden era of talkies and the studio system, to the auteur movement, to television, and finally to the present day.

It's certainly ambitious.

[flyonthewall2983]

I don't know why, but after reading that, this popped into my head.

[Robert de la Cheyniest]

I was a pretty big fan of the Sopranos, and anyone who has read anything about Chase knows that he is a huge cinephile. So I'm, of course, far too excited about this.

[Antoine Doinel]

David Gordon Green's next film is gigantic fantasy/comedy with Danny McBride and James Franco in the leads. Harry Knowles explodes in his pants with the details here.

[knives]

Couldn't find a Phillip Morris thread if there is one, but looks like some problems are happening.

God execs in the States need to get their heads out of their asses.

[Cash Flagg]

Coen Brothers' next film an adaptation of True Grit

[knives]

Coen Brothers' next film an adaptation of True Grit

:-s Oh, you're serious. :-k

[Matt]

The Western steps in front of another novel adaptation the Coens have with Rudin: "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," based on the Michael Chabon novel and set up at Columbia.

Nertz!

[kaujot]

Nerts to that indeed.

[Antoine Doinel]

Anne Hathaway is Judy Garland

[Zumpano]

Not exactly Variety but The North Denver News is reporting that Julianne Moore & Dennis Quaid will play Hillary and Bill Clinton in Peter Morgan's directorial debut.

[domino harvey]

Anne Hathaway is Judy Garland

She's Kathryn Grayson tops

[Antoine Doinel]

Anthony Hopkins is Ernest Hemingway

[kaujot]

Perfect fit.

[LQ]

Sean Penn will play Larry in the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges movie...

[miless]

Sean Penn's choices may now start following Cuba's

[HerrSchreck]

Sean Penn will play Larry in the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges movie...

These guys are nuts-- stooges info. This may be the baffling remake ever.

[HarryLong]

Sean Penn will play Larry in the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges movie...

Well, Penn does seem to be attracted to roles where he can have bad hair ...

[exte]

Ridley Scott’s Forever War To Be in Avatar-Inspired 3D

Posted on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 12:44 pm by: Brendon Connelly

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Which is better, Alien or Aliens? Well, I can answer that one for you - it’s Alien. But Aliens is rather special too. Just not, you know, most-important-film-of-the-70s special.

There is now a new chapter in the give and take between Ridley Scott and James Cameron, however. The BFI here in good ol’ Blighty (that’s what the B stands for) had a Blade Runner day at the weekend and while I didn’t go along myself - shame on me - a good handful of reporters were handy. One of them managed to get down Scott’s key quote on his upcoming sci-fi actioner, and how Avatar has inspired him to shoot it in 3D.

I’m filming a book by Joe Haldeman called Forever War. I’ve got a good writer doing it. I’ve seen some of James Cameron’s work, and I’ve got to go 3D. It’s going to be phenomenal.

London’s Wharf got that dish, giving some of my London chums something sexy to read on the light railway this morning.

I don’t know much about Haldeman or this Forever War, but Ridley Scott doing 3D? He could be adapting the Dick and Jane elementary learner books or Monopoly or something silly like that and I’d still be at the front of the line.

Speculate now, if you would, on who this ‘good writer’ that Scott mentioned might be. I immediately assumed William Monahan, but I think he has other things on. Whoever has the job, I hope they keep the first line of the novel because it’s a doozy:

Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Eight silent ways to kill a man! In 3D! Box office gold! Even in an anti-war film!

Apparently, the 1974 novel was deeply inspired by the Vietnam scenario. Things being what they are, however, it can’t fail to be relevant now. Forever War indeed.

Note: the image at the head of the post comes from the 80s, when Forever War was almost adapted as a mini-series for PBS. Really.

Why do I have the complete feeling that Ridley Scott was born for this type of production? He may even top Cameron's 3d work, I'm betting, but perhaps that's too hopeful...

[flyonthewall2983]

In regards to the Scott/Cameron debate, I've always wondered how Ridley felt about Aliens, especially since he was in a somewhat similar position as James when he did Hannibal.