Ridley Scott To Produce '2001: A Space Odyssey' Sequel '3001: The Final Odyssey'
Syfy has ordered a 3001 The Final Odyssey miniseries, a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel produced by Ridley Scott. Find out more about the production.
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'Daughter Of Smoke And Bone' Is Universal's Next YA Gambit
As The Hunger Games: Catching Fire quickly races towards becoming the highest grossing film of 2013, it's no coincidence studios continue to close deals for similar young adult fare. The latest is Universal, which just signed director Michael Gracey to direct Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the first in a YA trilogy written by Laini Taylor. Stuart…
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'I, Frankenstein' Trailer: What If Mary Shelly's Monster Was In An Underworld Movie?
You won't even need to see the credit card that says I, Frankenstein is from the creators of the Underworld films to get that series' vibe from this trailer. This film casts Aaron Eckhart as the best-looking Frankenstein monster ever in a story that goes with the now-standard over-inflation of stakes. In other words, this…
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First Official Image From 'I, Frankenstein' Highlights Aaron Eckhart's Monstrous Abs
In Mary Shelley's classic novel, Victor Frankenstein is horrified the first time he looks upon his creation because the thing is flat-out hideous: eight feet tall, with watery eyes, black lips, and translucent yellow skin. The creature is so ugly, in fact, that Frankenstein immediately flees the room. In Stuart Beattie's I, Frankenstein, however, he…
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New Line Cuts 'Gears Of War' Loose, New Studio Home Sought For Big-Budget Game Tie-In Movie
Gears of War, the Epic Games video game series published by Microsoft that has gone through three blockbuster installments so far, was set up at New Line for a long time as a potential feature. Len Wiseman was going to direct at one point, but in the years since 2007, when New Line signed on,…
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First Look: Aaron Eckhart As The Monster In 'I, Frankenstein'
Stuart Beattie is currently directing Aaron Eckhart as a modern version of the creature from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The film I, Frankenstein is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Kevin Grevioux, with Eckhart taking a lot of inspiration for his version of the monster directly from the Shelly original. Now we've…
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Casting Bits: Yvonne Strahovski In 'I, Frankenstein', David Oyelowo In 'Lincoln', Elle Fanning And Alessandro Nivola In 'Bomb'
Chuck actress Yvonne Strahovski is in final talks for I, Frankenstein, Stuart Beattie's adaptation of the comic book by Kevin Grevioux. Aaron Eckhart leads the cast as Frankenstein's classic monster, who in the present day goes by Adam and stands between humanity and the supernatural demons who would overtake them. Bill Nighy was previously announced…
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Bill Nighy In Talks To Play 'I, Frankenstein' Villain
Over nearly two years, Lakeshore Entertainment has been trying to get a jump on the impending Frankenstein adaptation race by making a movie based on Keven Grevioux's graphic novel I, Frankenstein. The Underworld-like story, a "contemporary fantasy thriller in which the original monster of Victor Frankenstein stands between the human race and an uprising of…
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Aaron Eckhart To Star In 'I, Frankenstein'
Early last year Lakeshore Entertainment became one of many companies to actively put a Frankenstein movie into development. In this case the property is I, Frankenstein, based on the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux. The story is a contemporary fantasy/thriller based on Mary Shelly's original gothic tale. It follows the monster, Adam Frankenstein, who has…
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'30 Days Of Night' Screenwriter Stuart Beattie To Direct 'I, Frankenstein'
30 Days of Night screenwriter Stuart Beattie has signed on to write and direct I, Frankenstein for Lakeshore Entertainment. The film will be based on the Darkstorm Studios graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux, one of the writers behind 2003's vampire-werewolf action flick Underworld. I, Frankenstein features the classic literary monster as a modern-day private detective…
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'The Shield' Creator Shawn Ryan Writing Adaptation Of Tom Clancy's 'Without Remorse'
Tom Clancy has found great success expanding his various novels into the video game medium, as developers continue to churn out seemingly endless entries into the Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series (among others), but when it comes to film, Jack Ryan has cornered the market. Out of the four films that have…
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Movie Trailer: Stuart Beattie's Tomorrow When The War Began
Paramount Pictures International has released the full length movie trailer for Stuart Beattie's directorial debut Tomorrow When The War Began. You might recognize Beattie's name as he is a big Hollywood screenwriter behind such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia, and G.I.…
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Rumor: Spielberg Jumping On Board The Halo Movie?
Tintin buddies Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg might soon be swapping more than spit performance capture data, with IESB reporting that ET's daddy might be picking up the producing reigns on Halo some years after Jackson laid them down. They cite " studio executives" and "close ties to CAA" as offering confirmation that Spielberg is…
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Stuart Beattie Talks Halo, Tarzan And Tomorrow, When The War Began
Stuart Beattie is starting to promote G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but he's got a lot more projects to talk about. Beattie was recently announced as the writer/director who would adapt the Australian book series that begins with Tomorrow, When the War Began, and he's got a Tarzan script and a Halo spec that…
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Stuart Beattie Adapts Mega-Successful Australian Book Series
Who knew that Australia had it's own Red Dawn? According to THR, Australia screenwriter Stuart Beattie (who also wrote Collateral, GI Joe and the story for Pirates of the Caribbean) is going to write and direct an adaptation of the novel Tomorrow, When the War Began. The film, which he calls "coming of age in…
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Stephen Sommers Replaces Guillermo Del Toro On Tarzan
Hack director Stephen Sommers is replacing Guillermo del Toro to direct a live action adaptation of Tarzan for Warner Bros. THR reports that Stuart Beattie will co-write the project with Sommers. del Toro has been attached to the project since it was announced two years ago, but his commitment to The Hobbit has put him…
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G.I. Joe: George Clooney As Duke? Screenwriting Rumors And Hasbro's Official Statement
Casting Rumors, Screenwriting rumors and official statements, a lot has been happening with the big screen adaptation of G.I. Joe. First up is a rumor from our friends at IESB: Paramount Pictures has offered the role of Duke to George Clooney. Apparently the big screen star walked away from Joe Carnahan's White Jazz not only…
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Confirmed: Stephen Sommers To Direct GI Joe Movie, Stuart Beattie To Pen Script
Variety has now confirmed a rumor that hit the movie websites a couple weeks ago: The Mummy series director Stephen Sommers has signed on to direct a big screen live-action G.I. Joe movie. The studio is hiring a writer immediately, IESB is reporting that Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of…
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Len Wiseman To Direct Gears Of War And Escape From New York Remake?
IESB is reporting that that Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is currently in talks with New Line Cinema to develop and direct both a big screen adaptation of the popular X-Box 360 video game Gears of War and the announced Escape from New York remake. On March 20th, it was announced that…
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3:10 To Yuma Movie Poster
We haven't had much (if any) coverage of James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma remake on /Film based purely on my dislike of movie westerns. But it seems like everywhere I look there is something else about this new flick. Today it's the movie poster [via our friends at FirstShowing ComingSoon], which even I must admit,…
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Russell Crowe To Direct Bra Boys
Russell Crowe wants to be a director, but doesn't everyone? The Academy Award winning actor will make his directorial debut with Bra Boys for Universal and Imagine Entertainment. According to Variety, the movie is a "fact-based drama about a counterculture movement in a surf community in Australia." Stuart Beattie, who just signed on to write…
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New Line To Make Gears Of War Movie
New Line is on a roll. First they win the rights to the Escape from New York remake, and now a big screen adaptation of Microsoft's popular video game Gears of War. Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screenwriter Stuart Beattie is working on the script. No word on…
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