Rachel Portman Scoring Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek Photographs Ben Stiller

Posted on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

There’s been a few little bits of interesting Mark Romanek business hit the web in recent days and I think a quick round up is in order.

Firstly, Mark Salisbury wrote a piece for Time Out on The Wolfman, giving some clues as to why Romanek left the project and how the picture changed when Joe Johnston came on board. Suffice to say, the article supports my suspicions that had Romanek been supported by the studio, the finished film would have benefited.

More recently, Romanek published a couple of interesting pictures to his Posterous account. You can see them both below the break as well as what we might surmise from them.

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Exclusive: Ben Stiller Frontrunner For Mark Romanek’s The Voices

Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

In The Hollywood Reporter‘s news break on Michael R. Perry being hired to script the second Paranormal Activity picture they also mentioned that his 2009 Black Listed script The Voices has been set up at Vertigo Entertainment with Doug Davison and Roy Lee producing. This picture certainly has an interesting premise: After Jerry Hickfang accidentally kills a woman he works with at a bathroom fixtures factory, he begins taking advice from his cat and dog on how to cover his tracks and avoid trouble.

Creepy. Funny. And actually a rather sad.

Mark Romanek has been developing the film as a potential directing vehicle, and while it is early days, it seems that he’s already started to size up one of his stars.

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