Universal has recruited Dean Deblois as the Treasure Island movie director in its action-adventure film inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel.
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Briefly: Guy Ritchie and Warner Bros. have done well together with the Sherlock Holmes films, and the studio has now set the director to tackle Treasure Island. Lionel Wigram, the producer who set up Sherlock, has been developing Treasure Island for some time, and since he's taking the same sort of 'period + modern style'…
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There's a lot of sequel casting and development to report today, and so after the break you'll find: Michelle Rodriguez will return for Machete Kills and Fast and Furious 6 Vin Diesel is teasing further Riddick sequel news Steve Coogan is cast in Despicable Me 2 Eddie Izzard suggests there could be more Treasure Island…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 24 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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The big Elijah Wood news in the past couple days was that the actor will appear in The Hobbit to reprise his character Frodo from The Lord of the Rings. (Details on that appearance here.) But he's also got another role booked: he'll be Ben Gunn in a Sky TV adaptation of Treasure Island, scripted…
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Carter Beats the Devil is one of those novels that made a big splash, was quickly optioned and then dropped right into development hell. But now it is getting a second chance at Warner Bros., with Michael Gilio set to script. (He wrote the draft of Treasure Island for WB that Paul Greengrass is reportedly…
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Just over a month ago we reported that Paul Greengrass, the director of Bloody Sunday, United 93, Green Zone and the last two Bourne films, would make quite a stylistic change by taking a job directing the remake of Fantastic Voyage that James Cameron is producing. Now, as it turns out, he won't do that…
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We'd heard earlier this year that a new Treasure Island movie was in development, the idea being to create a version of the story that has the same appeal as the Sherlock Holmes and Pirates of the Caribbean films -- in other words, a mostly modern take that happens to be set in the original…
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