Clive Owen Joins Andrew Niccol's Next Project 'Anon'
Calling Anon director Andrew Niccol's next project might be a bit presumptuous, but his high-concept film has locked up financing and its star, Clive Owen.
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'Monopoly' Movie Moves Forward At Lionsgate; Andrew Niccol To Write
A Monopoly movie is in the works again, this time from Lionsgate. Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Truman Show) will write the script.
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'Good Kill' UK Trailer: Ethan Hawke And The Ethics Of Modern Warfare
This new Good Kill UK trailer is a lot like the international trailer that dropped for the film not long ago. But it is a much better-assembled piece of work, with a more polished flow overall and a better deployment of the film's signature elements. Specifically, Ethan Hawke as a fighter pilot turned drone pilot,…
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'Good Kill' Trailer: Ethan Hawke Goes To War For Andrew Niccol
Watch the Good Kill trailer. Ethan Hawke leads the drama directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca), playing a drone pilot stationed in Las Vegas.
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'Good Kill' Poster: Andrew Niccol And Ethan Hawke Re-Team For Drone Warfare
Writer/director Andrew Niccol, and actor Ethan Hawke have done two films together, Gattaca and Lord of War, and they're really Niccol's two best films. Now the pair have done a new film, Good Kill, which is described as "a unique look at the current state of war through the eyes of a drone-pilot." The film premiered…
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Will Smith To Star In 'The City That Sailed' For Director Shawn Levy
Movies set at sea seem to be a new big thing, and now Will Smith is going to sail New York City across the Atlantic Ocean. He'll star in The City That Sailed for Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy. The film is one that Smith was considering a few years ago, before he…
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Andrew Niccol And Ethan Hawke Reunite For Third Film, About Dissatisfied Drone Pilot
Briefly: Writer/director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke have done two memorable films together: the sci-fi trip Gattaca, in which Hawke played a lead role, and Lord of War, in which he appeared as an Interpol agent on the trail of Nic Cage's weapons dealer. Now, after Niccol has stumbled somewhat with In Time and…
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'The Host' Trailer: Saoirse Ronan Faces Alien Invaders, Young Love
There's a segment of the population that will always turn out to see a movie advertised as being "based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer," no matter what, and another segment that will avoid that movie like the plague, no matter what. Meyer's first non-Twilight tale, the sci-fi romance The Host, doesn't look likely to…
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'The Host' Trailer #2: Saoirse Ronan Battles The Alien Within
The Twilight Saga is officially over -- at least until Summit starts working on the inevitable reboot -- but author Stephenie Meyer isn't leaving the big screen just yet. Her first non-Twilight novel, The Host, is headed for cinemas next month, with Saoirse Ronan in the lead and Andrew Niccol at the helm. Where the…
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'The Host' Trailer & Poster: Stephenie Meyer's Post 'Twilight' Sci-Fi Love Story, From Director Andrew Niccol
Over the past five years, author Stephenie Meyer has proved she can strike a chord blending genre and romance. Her Twilight books and movies are some of the most successful in recent memory, playing to a specific audience hungry for passionate romance and tantalized by their horror-inspired roots. Once Meyer finished Twilight, she published The Host, which has…
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Stephenie Meyer And Director Andrew Niccol Preview 'The Host' Footage [Comic-Con 2012]
The first full day of the San Diego Comic Con found the giant Hall H occupied by nearly the entire cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II, with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer showing up as well. But after the Twilight panel finished up, Meyer came back out to the stage to introduce a few…
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'The Host' Teaser Trailer
Author Stephenie Meyer is obviously best known for writing the Twilight books, but she also wrote a best-seller not filled with vampires, werewolves and teen lust. It's called The Host and the film version, directed by Andrew Niccol, has just released its first teaser trailer. Starring Saoirse Ronan, The Host is about one woman's struggle…
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Diane Kruger In Talks To Join Saoirse Ronan In Stephenie Meyer Adaptation 'The Host'
Although this November's Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the last film currently planned in The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer will be back at the box office again just four months later, with March's The Host. The adaptation of Meyer's first non-Twilight novel has been in the works for a couple of years now, and picked…
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Casting Bits: William Hurt In 'The Host;' Abbie Cornish In 'Seven Psychopaths;' Felicity Jones In 'The Invisible Woman'
William Hurt is the latest addition to The Host, the adaptation of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's sci-fi romance that will be directed by Andrew Niccol (In Time, Gattaca). The actor is in talks to play Jeb, "eccentric uncle" to Saoirse Ronan's character Melanie. Ronan's character has her mind taken over by an alien intelligence called…
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Casting Bits: Glenn Close And Elizabeth Olsen In 'Thérèse Raquin', David Schwimmer In 'The Iceman', Max Irons In 'The Host'
Hot off two of the year's most buzzed-about performances in Albert Nobbs and Martha Marcy May Marlene, Glenn Close and Elizabeth Olsen have signed on to star in Thérèse Raquin. Charlie Stratton is writing and directing the erotic thriller, which is based on a 19th century novel and play by Émile Zola. Olsen will lead the…
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Casting Bits: Jake Abel In 'The Host', Luke Grimes In 'Taken 2', Sean Astin, Taryn Manning And Kevin Pollak In 'Napa'
With Saoirse Ronan already locked in for Andrew Niccol's The Host, the search is on for two handsome young lads to play the male leads. Jake Abel has just been selected for the part of Ian, beating out several competitors including Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines), Thomas McDonnell (Prom), and Augustus Prew (Charlie…
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The /Filmcast: Bonus Ep. - In Time
In this episode, Dave Chen and Adam Quigley discuss Andrew Niccol's newest film, In Time. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Tune in on Sunday night (11/6) at Slashfilm's live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST as we review A Very Harold &…
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Liam Hemsworth, Kit Harrington, And More Compete For Male Leads In Stephenie Meyer Adaptation 'The Host'
With the uber-successful Twilight film series due to end next November, Hollywood is turning its attention that other Stephenie Meyer adaptation, the sci-fi romance The Host. In Time writer/director Andrew Niccol boarded the project earlier this year with Saoirse Ronan set to star, and now a group of young up-and-comers are getting ready to compete…
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'In Time' Review: Andrew Niccol Tries To Occupy Sci-Fi
I’ll say this for In Time, Andrew Niccol’s story describing a society driven into extreme class segregation by an economic system in which time is literally money: Niccol drives Justin Timberlake like a taskmaster. The singer-turned-actor runs like crazy, jumps, fights, and sweats his way through a movie that all too often feels more detached…
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/Film Visits The Set Of 'In Time' - Maybe The Most Beautiful Place In The World
Walking around the set of the upcoming sci-fi action film, In Time, is a smorgasbord of physical perfection. Attractive guys and girls are everywhere and even during an interview with the film’s stars, it’s hard not to glance behind them at the veritable fashion runway parading to craft services. The reason everyone on set is…
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Harlan Ellison Suing New Regency, Claims 'In Time' Rips Off His Short Story
Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison is suing New Regency over Andrew Niccol's In Time, claiming that the film is a ripoff of his story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman." Ellison has a reputation for being lawsuit-happy -- in the past, he's successfully sued to get a credit on The Terminator after claiming the movie was based…
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'In Time' Trailer #2
Twentieth Century Fox has released a second trailer for their upcoming Andrew Niccol sci-fi action film In Time.
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'In Time' Trailer: Justin Timberlake And Amanda Seyfried Run Through The Future
Andrew Niccol's new film In Time posits a world in which the only currency is time: every individual has a body clock which, after 25 years, constantly counts down to death. Anyone can earn or steal more time, and without that wealth, it is game over. The extended trailer we saw at Comic Con made…
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'In Time' Extended Trailer Starring Justin Timberlake And Amanda Seyfried
Imagine that your body stopped aging at 25 and that you could live forever. It's a very promising proposition if not for one small caveat. At the age of 25, your body is given one year to live. The only way to remain alive is to acquire more time on your body's biological clock. And…
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Release Dates: 'Pacific Rim,' Soderbergh's 'Contagion,' 'The Host,' 'Carnage' And More
We've got a handful of release dates to share, with the biggest possibly being Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Pacific Rim, which, if things go well, will begin shooting late this summer or in early fall. Warner Bros. will distribute the Legendary Pictures production, and has just set July 12, 2013 as the release date. Pacific…
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Title Changes For Former 'John Carter Of Mars,' 'Now' And 'Still I Rise'
Double Academy Award-winning director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, is currently working on his first foray into live action, an adaptation of the classic sci-fi fantasy novel John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. For some reason, though, Disney has now changed the title from that to "Gary Carter," the Hall Of…
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Andrew Niccol Confirmed To Direct Saoirse Ronan In 'The Host'
There's been a little bit of back and forth over who will sit in the director's chair for the adaptation of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's sci-fi novel The Host. Andrew Niccol scripted and was going to direct before he ran off to do Now with Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake. Earlier this year it looked…
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