In the three years since his last directorial effort Knowing, director Alex Proyas has seen not one but two of his potential follow-ups killed for budgetary reasons. Legendary Pictures scrapped his epic Paradise Lost in February, and though Universal revived Dracula: Year Zero in the same month, it was a new incarnation of the project…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: You probably know Alex Proyas as the director of films like The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I Robot and Knowing, but for the next week and a half the filmmaker has agreed to become a guest blogger on /Film. I asked Alex to blog about some of his influences, and you can…
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After Knowing, Alex Proyas will begin adapting Robert Heinlein's novela The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. The Dark City director will write and helm the $40 - $50 million psychological thriller for Phoenix Pictures. Heinlein is probably best known to today's moviegoers as the author of Starship Troopers. Originally published in a 1942 edition of…
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