Briefly: Two writers have been hired to make yet another film adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. Warner Bros. tapped Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, producers on the Netflix show Hemlock Grove, to adapt the novel in a modern, socially conscious sci-fi film. The novel has already been made into numerous…
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Typically, we hear about screen tests being done for actors. But in the case of Zorro Reborn, which is tentatively set to star Gael Garcia Bernal in a futuristic revamp of the classic character, it is the director that is the object of the test. The guy in question is Ricardo de Montreuil, who gained…
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Briefly: Fox is rebooting Zorro, and now plans to put Gael Garcia Bernal behind the mask. Zorro Reborn will be a "futuristic reboot" of the Zorro tale that will reportedly be set somewhere quite different from the story's classic locales. Fox won't comment, but let's hope that the script, by Glenn Gers and Lee Shipman…
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Most of the best filmmakers got their starts when another, more experienced, filmmaker took them under their wing. Famous examples include Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth (who was also mentored to a lesser extent by David Lynch), Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp, Roger Corman and everyone and next up,…
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Zorro has been making appearances in film for almost 100 years, but the most recent incarnation of the character played against tradition, with Anthony Hopkins playing an aged Don Diego de la Vega handing off the mask to a misfit outlaw played by Antonio Banderas. That was of course The Mask of Zorro, directed by…
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On Friday there was word that Orphan and Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra would be developing a new Dracula film with Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way. The basis is a spec script by Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy called Bram Stoker's Dracula Project. Or, it was using that name. Now the film is going under the…
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