Final 'In The Heart Of The Sea' Trailer: Chris Hemsworth Deals With A Real Moby Dick
The final In the Heart of the Sea trailer has arrived, showcasing more of the true story that inspired Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick.
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Lynne Ramsay Gets Funding To Launch 'Moby Dick' Into Space With 'Mobius'
I'm still haunted by Lynne Ramsay's last film, We Need to Talk About Kevin, which I believe is one of the best horror films of the last few years. And so "We Need to Talk About Moby Dick in Space" is a great title for the announcement that Ramsay now has financial backing for Mobius,…
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'Contraband' Scribe Rewriting Timur Bekmambetov's 'Moby Dick' For Lower Budget
It's been a while since we've received any significant updates on Timur Bekmambetov's action-oriented Moby Dick adaptation, but the project's apparently still simmering over at Universal and has just brought in a new writer to help with one specific stumbling block: the budget. Over the past year, we've seen several big action adaptations get scrapped…
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Lynne Ramsay To Make A Claustrophobic Sci-Fi 'Moby Dick'
I'm a big fan of Lynne Ramsay based on her first two films, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. The conversations about her third, We Need to Talk About Kevin, have been extremely tempting to read, but I'm waiting to delve into those until I've had a chance to see the film for myself. Suffice to say…
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Timur Bekmambetov Will Direct Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Offers Updates On Wanted 2, Moby Dick And More
We've wondered for quite some time what film Timur Bekmambetov might direct next. At one point, it seemed like he would follow his last movie, Wanted, with a direct sequel. But that is taking time to come together, and recently his prioritites have shifted to adapting the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which he is…
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Donald Sutherland And Gillian Anderson Join William Hurt For TV Moby Dick
It's rare that I look at a TV project and wish that it were a $100m theatrical production instead of a much smaller television affair. I like seeing what creative teams can do with ingenuity rather than money, so almost never think something should be more expensive. But I do wish the $25m television version…
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Cracktastic: Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov Directing Moby Dick
In what the trades are dryly referring to as a "reimagining" and "splashy," Universal Pictures has hired Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) to direct a new version of the literary classic, Moby Dick, that will "apply the visual flourish he displayed on the [studio's] summer hit Wanted." So, 360 flips and Angelina Jolie's ass? It's pointless…
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