While there is nothing concrete, industry insiders and Deadline are speculating that Steven Spielberg might make Robopocalypse his next directorial feature film. DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired the property in November in a pre-emptive deal. Daniel H. Wilson’s unpublished manuscript (due in 2011), Robopocalypse tells the story of “the fate of the human race following a robot uprising.” Cloverfield screenwriter Drew Goddard has been hired to pen the big screen adaptation. Spielberg directing a film about the robot apocalypse written by Goddard? Consider me excited!
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Disney has announced a release date for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children’s book Mars Needs Moms! and Paramount Pictures has confirmed the release o fthe Steven Spielberg-directed 3D performance capture adaptation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Details after the jump.
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In June of 2009, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull co-star Shia LaBeouf told reporters that Steven Spielberg had “cracked” the story for Indiana Jones 5 and he thinks “they’re gearing that up.” But as far as I can tell, no screenwriter has been hired to turn that idea into a script. Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford reiterated the first part of Shia’s previous statement, telling the BBC this week that “Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] and I are sort of agreed on a germ of an idea and we’re seeing what comes of it.” Ford went on to explain the process:
“The process works like this… We come to some basic agreement and then George goes away for a long time and works on it. Then Steven and I get it in some form, some embryonic form. Then if we like it we start working with George on it and at some point down the line it’s ready and we do it.”
Right now it sounds like they are only at step one. If a fifth Indiana Jones movie ever happens, it’s very likely we won’t see it for some time.
What will Steven Spilerberg’s Tintin look like? The motion-capture work for his adaptation of Hergé’s classic comic character was shot last year, with Peter Jackson and WETA now working on post-production. We have yet to see a single design that shows off what the character will look like when the film appears in theaters next year.
But we can get a few ideas of what we’re likely to see based on comments Spielberg has now made about the tech used to make the film. It sounds as if his Tintin, played by Jamie Bell, won’t be a rubbery 3D CGI humanoid, but a much more direct recreation of the art style of Hergé. Read More »
OK, the title of this piece is sort of a bait and switch. You see the name Steven Spielberg and “dinosaurs”, and certain associations immediately spring to mind. But this isn’t Jurassic Park: The Show, nor is it something that Spielberg is likely to be very involved in beyond the executive producer stage. But in the absence of a new feature project for Spielberg, this is something to talk about. So what brings the venerable filmmaker back together with scaly beasts from Earth’s past?
Fox is looking at committing to a show called Terra Nova, which would see a family from Earth’s future flung back into the prehistoric age. I read that and immediately think “Land of the Lost, but fancy.” Indeed, while Variety provides scant details on the show, the most interesting aspect may be that it would be so expensive to produce that the network is considering skipping over the traditional pilot and going straight to a full season commitment. Breaking down the pilot’s sets then building them again would add too much to the already high price tag.
Terra Nova was written by Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel, based on Marcel’s story idea. Fox Entertainment would produce the show, with Spielberg and Peter Chernin currently mulling deals to come on as exec producers.
A couple weeks back it was rumored that a third Gremlins film was in the very early stages of development, and that it was being created with 3-D in mind. If that is true, someone forgot to tell executive producer Steven Spielberg and screenwriter (now director) Chris Columbus.
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Back in October, it was reported that DreamWorks acquired a screenplay by Memoirs of a Geisha scribe Doug Wright about the life of iconic composer George Gershwin. At the time we assumed that Steven Spielberg would merely be executive producing the project, but now that the announced Harvey remake is off the calendar, speculation has begun that he might helm the Gershwin biopic as his next project, which could begin shooting as early as April 2010.
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We reported back in June that Noah Wyle was cast as the lead in Spielberg’s untitled alien invasion series for TNT, and now we finally have more information on the project. It still doesn’t have a title, but we’ve learned a few new details — including some additions to the cast. Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation, Journeyman) — who must really like science fiction since she’s always getting cast in genre work — joins as a therapist who helps children cope with the trauma of the alien invasion. Wyle plays a former professor who becomes the reluctant leader of a resistance group (is there any other kind?).
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Last May we heard that DreamWorks had picked up the rights to create an official biopic of Dr. Martin Luther King, with Steven Spielberg producing. At the time there was no other talent involved. Now, just a day or two late to make the announcement resonate perfectly with Monday’s MLK holiday, the studio has announced a screenwriter: Ronald Harwood, who won an Oscar for The Pianist. Read More »
We’ve got word on two upcoming documentaries that will reflect on past U.S. tragedies: First up, we’ve learned that Steven Spielberg will be executive producing an upcoming television documentary about the construction of the One World Trade Center building in New York. The six-part documentary series will be created for the Science Channel, and will air in 2011. The series will also attempt to honor the lives lost during the 9/11 attacks, and will examine how the rebuilding of a new World Trade Center at Ground Zero is affecting the lives of everyday New Yorkers. It will also “use 3D, time-lapse cameras, computer modeling techniques and other high technology methods” to tell its tale.
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