Cary Fukunaga was going to direct a two-film adaptation of Stephen King's novel It, and that was exciting. But, as often happens, there were differences of opinion between Fukunaga and the execs at New Line, and the parties went their separate ways. The It project is still probably going to be made, just with new scripts and new…
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Evil clowns may get even more evil in the new adaptation of Stephen King's IT, as Will Poulter is set to play Pennywise.
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Based on Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre, film fans knew director Cary Fukunaga was a talent. Unfortunately, not everyone saw those movies. That's not the case with HBO's True Detective, a show he's both producing and directing. Huge audiences are watching that show and realizing this guy is one of the best young directors out there today.…
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Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre wasn't a horror movie per se, but the director brought a distinctive ghostly chill to the classic Gothic romance. And now he'll be bringing that same knack for dread and suspense to another literary adaptation that more obviously calls for it. Fukunaga has just been hired to direct a remake of…
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After directing two movies as completely different as Sin Hombre and Jane Eyre, it's impossible to pigeonhole director Cary Fukunaga as a specific kind of filmmaker. Does he make foreign language gang films? Adaptations of classic literature? His next film won't help solve the puzzle, but it sounds like it'll be an awesome new piece…
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In the pantheon of Big Difficult Adaptations, Frank Herbert's novel Dune has stood tall for years. Efforts to make a film in the '70s stalled, and a film version nearly defeated David Lynch in the early '80s. (Some, including David Lynch, might say that it did defeat him.) The mini-series adaptation in 2000 can be…
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Screenwriter Chase Palmer has been hired to write a draft the big budget remake of Dune for Paramount Pictures. Taken/District B13 director Pierre Morel came aboard the film early this year after Peter Berg departed the project. Palmer has been brought on board to work some of Morel's ideas into original scribe Josh Zetumer's screenplay.…
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