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     Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.4.0 |
Never heard of this comic/story before.... ----- Title: SECRET IDENTITY: THE FETISH ART OF SUPERMAN'S CO-CREATOR JOE SHUSTER Logline: Joe Shuster is the secret artist behind "The Nights of Horror," a 16-volume series of mob-financed underground comics depicting scenes that range from S&M to brutal torture. The comics are sold covertly under the counters of Times Square bookshops -- until they spark a dragnet and crackdown on comics, several sensational trials and a Supreme Court censorship case in 1954. Writer: Craig Yoe (author) Prod. Co: Gotham Group, The Genre: Drama Bio Logged: 7/14/2009 More: Book. True story. Gotham's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lee Stollman & Julie Kane-Ritsch will produce. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
It's true, though, I gather. A stranger case is that of the artist who draws disciplinary cartoons as "The Spirit". They're much in the style of Will Eisner, but Eisner is no longer with us. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
Will Eisner is another one of my favourites. Loved 'The Spirit' reprints that Warren published in the 70s. His wonderfully detailed art just reeked film noir atmosphere but with distinctive humour. Hadn't heard he had died... sad. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.0.139 |
And another one - thinking about it now, wouldn't a non-episodic feature version of this show be fascinating?... -------- Title: TWILIGHT ZONE Logline: Inspired by the TV series, but not based on a specific episode. Writer: Rand Ravich Agency: Creative Artists Agency Law Firm: Bloom Hergott Deimer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Prod. Co: Appian Way Genre: Science Fiction Fantasy Logged: 7/20/2009 More: Based on the TV series. Appian's Leonardo DiCaprio will produce. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.77.123 |
And yet another one - a prequel: ------------------ Title: KONG: KING OF SKULL ISLAND Logline: On Skull Island, a giant gorilla becomes "king" of the other living creatures, which includes dinosaurs and other giant gorillas. Writer: Andy Briggs Prod. Co: Spirit Pictures Genre: Fantasy Adventure Logged: 7/27/2009 More: Prequel. To be based on the novel by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland. Rights to make the movie were brokered with the Merian C. Cooper family. Arnold Kunert and Spirit's Steve Iles will produce. Initially developed by effects legend Ray Harryhausen. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>And another one - thinking about it now, wouldn't a non-episodic feature version of this show [THE TWILIGHT ZONE] be fascinating?...<< Absolutely! But only if someone could pull it off in the same style as Rod Serling - do something which he'd have been proud of. I'm a huuuuge Serling fan. The New Twilight Zone (and The Movie) never quite did it for me. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.178.214 |
I see a fourth Final Destination is coming too. And John Carter of Mars (script by the guy who wrote Wonder Boys!), which I'm a bit excited about. Gremlins 3 is in the pipe, and a new film by Joe Dante - a kid-friendly horror called The Hole - in 3D!!! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.39.227 |
Well this is weird. I go looking for Dante and find this; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001102/news | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.250.150 |
I'm looking forward to the fourth FINAL DESTINATION - that series is just plain wicked fun. Oh - and how did I possibly forget to mention this?... -------- Title: SAW VII Logline: The horror continues with the Jigsaw legacy. Writer: Marcus Dunstan Patrick Melton Agency: Agency for the Performing Arts Agency for the Performing Arts Mngmnt Firm: Underground Management Underground Management Law Firm: Bloom Hergott Deimer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman Bloom Hergott Deimer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman Prod. Co: Lionsgate Genre: Horror Logged: 7/24/2009 More: Sequel. Mark Burg and Oren Koules will produce. David Hackl will direct. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.39.227 |
I see they're remaking the first three Saws. Just joshing. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.207.78 |
Maybe Hollywood has it right. It's evolution. All of Hollywood should continuously remake one film until it's perfect. Then make sequels. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.227.217 |
And another. What do you think of this, Proto?... Me, I'd actually like to see this. Note: Jon Spaihts writing bodes well: he wrote a phenomenal sci-fi spec script called PASSENGERS, one of the best I've read in recent years (I might have it in pdf, if'n anyone's interested). ------------------ Title: ALIEN PREQUEL Logline: Will tell what happened before the crew of the commercial towing ship encountered the aliens on the planetoid. Writer: Jon Spaihts Agency: Paradigm (LA) Mngmnt Firm: Circle of Confusion Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Prod. Co: Scott Free Productions Genre: Science Fiction Logged: 7/31/2009 More: Prequel to the Alien franchise. Ridley Scott will produce and direct. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.78.190 |
... wtf?!? -------- Title: BUDDY HOLLY IS ALIVE AND WELL ON GANYMEDE Logline: An average geek's uneventful life changes when Buddy Holly turns up on every TV channel and declares that the geek is the only one who understands why this is happening -- which causes him to be pursued by a mob of disguised aliens. Writer: Robert Rugan Prod. Co: Dahlia Street Films Caspian Pictures Genre: Science Fiction Comedy Logged: 8/13/2009 More: Based on Bradley Denton's novel. Molly Mayeux and Michael Hennessy will produce. Caspian's Brian Bullock will executive produce. Robert Rugan will also direct. Jon Heder will star. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Title: BUDDY HOLLY IS ALIVE AND WELL ON GANYMEDE Logline: An average geek's uneventful life changes when Buddy Holly turns up on every TV channel and declares that the geek is the only one who understands why this is happening -- which causes him to be pursued by a mob of disguised aliens. << That sounds like it must be a spoof!  | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
That sounds like it must be a spoof! Yep. Is Bowfinger directing it?  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.241.223 |
A "different take" being "kept under wraps"?!... How do you "different take" the blob?... ----------- Title: THE BLOB Logline: Will be a different take on the original of a giant blob from outer space that crashes into earth and absorbs humans. The new details are being kept under wraps. Writer: Rob Zombie Agency: International Creative Management Manager: Andy Gould Mngmnt Firm: Spectacle Entertainment Group Law Firm: Myman, Abell, Fineman, Fox, Greenspan & Light, LLP Prod. Co: Creep Entertainment International Genre Co. Genre: Horror Logged: 8/28/2009 More: Remake of the 1958 film. Zombie, Jack H. Harris, Andy Gould, Genre's Richard Saperstein & Brian Witten and Worldwide's Judith Parker Harris will produce. Shara Kay and Jeremy Platt will co-produce. David Mendez will executive produce. Zombie will also direct. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.149.114 |
It'll use cgi. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.12 |
Maybe it's a talking giant slime, Tony - they'll call it THE BLAB. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
The original was absolutely terrible - a young Steve McQueen being the only plus point. The remake was pretty goodm but not great. So, to be honest, this sounds interesting. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.225.243 |
I liked the remake much - haven't seen it since, but I remember it being, for its time, fwi-was, not too shabby... scary and gory... I hope this one's pretty good... but I just wonder what the "new take" is.... And btw, Zombie's HALLOWEEN II better be better than HALLOWEEN, which was shit. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.109.19 |
I rather liked The Blob remake...I remember it being quite scary & horrific in places, particularly when the Blob fell from the ceiling onto one of the characters. gcw | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.111.139.82 |
If it's Rob Zombie it'll be shit. The guy has no fil making talent at all. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.111.139.82 |
film making | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.190.207 |
Someone should make an adaptation of Joseph Payne Brennan's Slime instead. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
I agree Huw! One of my all-time favourite short stories. I don't think it gets enough credit for how massively influential it was. I'm very fond of the original version of 'The Blob' but the 80s (90s?) remake is perhaps the ONLY remake I can think of that completely blew the original away. Haven't seen it since first released in the cinema and would love to get the DVD. Is it available anyone know? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.130 |
There was MOVIN' OUT, and there was MAMA MIA, now this... who's next - the Manhattan Transfer?! ------------ Title: UNTITLED MANILOW PROJECT Logline: Barry Manilow fans arrive in Las Vegas on a weekend when he will headline a performance at Mandalay Bay, the largest venue on the Strip. Prod. Co: Single Cell Pictures Playtone Company, The Genre: Romantic Comedy Logged: 9/10/2009 More: Rights to Barry Manilow's songs acquired. Garry Kief, Single Cell's Sandy Stern & Michael Stipe and Playtone's Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman will produce. Troy Queen and Mark Grove will also produce in some capacity. No screenwriter is attached yet. (if you're wondering about the relevance here - yes, this qualifies as horror....) | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.77 |
I saw this today on Yahoo. Thought I had dreamt until I saw Craig's thread. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.250.210 |
When you're this guy, you get to sell your movies before the books they're based on even become published; and even when that potential movie's based on - sorry - loony loglines like this. Maybe it's brilliant though. What the hell do I know?... Title: HORNS Logline: Revolves around a 26-year-old man who wakes up one morning from a blackout hangover and finds horns sprouting out of his head. As the horns grow bigger by the day, the reason why seems to lie in the unsolved murder of his girlfriend. Writer: Joe Hill (author) Prod. Co: Mandalay Pictures Genre: Romance Thriller Logged: 10/12/2009 More: Upcoming novel. Mandalay's Peter Guber & Cathy Schulman will produce. Hill will executive produce. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.222.21 |
I'd like to have someone take one of my short stories and expand on it to give it the Hollywood treatment. No snark Zeddy! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.74 |
THIS sounds odd.... So why aren't you guys doing this, writing novels online, a page a day?!... -------------------------------------------- Title: MACHINE MAN Logline: A tech engineer, who is tired of going through life average and unnoticed, replaces parts of his body with titanium upgrades of his own design. He then discovers that he isn't the only one with plans for his new body. Writer: Max Barry (author) Prod. Co: Mandalay Pictures Genre: Science Fiction Thriller Logged: 11/5/2009 More: Novel, whose pages are being posted online each day by the author. Mandalay's Peter Guber & Cathy Schulman will produce. Vantage Books plans to publish the novel in 2011. ---------------------------------------------- (In trying to discover who this guy is, I went to his website, which had a link to this rather entertaining little waste of time on it you might enjoy: http://www.wordle.net/ ) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Thousands and thousands of writers do that, Craig...just because one of them gets lucky doesn't mean it's a dead cert. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.74 |
... but do you?... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.3.110 |
Maybe this will be better than the last one.... Title: KULL THE CONQUEROR Logline: Born in Atlantis around 20,000 BC, Kull is exiled over a mercy killing and later becomes a mercenary fighter and eventually King of Valusia on the neighboring continent of Thuria. Writer: Robert E Howard (creator) Prod. Co: Paradox Entertainment Genre: Action Adventure Fantasy Logged: 11/24/2009 More: Character and storyline first created in 1929 for the "Weird Tales" magazine. But any chance this will?... Title: THE HOWLING: REBORN Logline: Under wraps. Writer: Joe Nimziki Prod. Co: Moonstone Entertainment Genre: Horror Logged: 11/23/2009 More: Remake of the 1981 film franchise. Joel Kastelberg and Moonstone's Etchie Stroh will produce. Steve Lane and Bob Pringle will executive produce. Nimziki will also direct. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.84.238 |
About time they remade this one.... (I keep forgetting about this one in relation to horror movies, because it really scared me as a kid! That black hole was the doorway to some horrible universe!) Title: THE BLACK HOLE Logline: A group of space explorers come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a black hole. Inside the Cygnus, the explorers meet a scientist, commanding an army of faceless robots, who explains his crew deserted him as he planned to go through the black hole. The explorers soon discover that the robots are the remnants of the former crew and that the scientist has no intention of letting them leave. Writer: Travis Beacham Agency: WME Entertainment Mngmnt Firm: Anonymous Content Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Prod. Co: Idealogy, Inc. Genre: Science Fiction Logged: 12/1/2009 More: Remake of the 1979 film. Sean Bailey will produce. Joseph Kosinski will direct. Disney's Brigham Taylor & Casey Wolfe and Idealogy's Matt Smith & Justin Springer will oversee. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.12.102 |
The 1979 film was dreadful. I missed a Dr Feelgood gig to see that, and have regretted it ever since! Bitter? Surely not... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.224.57 |
You knew it was coming.... [cut to: me shaking my fist at you-know-who] Title: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Logline: Tells the timeless story of a woman’s quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the undead into vicious killers. Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith (author) Jane Austen (author) Prod. Co: Lionsgate Handsome Charlie Films Darko Productions Genre: Romance Adventure Logged: 12/11/2009 More: Book, an expanded version of the classic novel. Handsomecharlie's Natalie Portman & Annette Savitch and Darko's Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick & Ted Hamm will produce. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.234.129 |
And this little film, it has been announced, will be showing at the Slamdance Film Festival next year (which runs same time/same place as the Sundance Film Festival): ----------------------------------------- “The Last Lovecraft: The Relic of Cthulhu” - directed by Henry Saine. World Premier, 82 min Cast: Devin McGinn Jeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life, but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. Lovecraft. He and his friend Charlie embark on an adventure to protect the relic piece from falling into the hands of the Starspawn and his minions that wish to reunite the relic and release Cthulhu back into the world. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.105.158 |
!"The 1979 film was dreadful. I missed a Dr Feelgood gig to see that, and have regretted it ever since! Bitter? Surely not..." Didn't you likey the cutesey wobots Mick?? gcw | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.124 |
Christ - enough with the zombie movies already!  Anyone read this novel? The logline sounds gawdawful.... ------------- Title: WARM BODIES Logline: An existentially tormented zombie begins an unlikely friendship with the girlfriend of one of his victims and starts a chain reaction that will transform him and his fellow zombies. Writer: Jonathan Levine Agent: Craig Gering Agency: Creative Artists Agency Manager: Ragna Nervik Mngmnt Firm: Nervik Management, Ragna Lawyer: Todd Stern Law Firm: Weissman Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall Prod. Co: Summit Entertainment Make Movies Genre: Dark Comedy Logged: 1/20/2010 More: Based on the novel by Isaac Marion. Make Movies' Bruna Papandrea will produce. Laurie Webb and Cori Shepherd Stern will executive produce. Levine will also direct. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Sounds like a Buffy episode. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.230.78 |
A terribly convoluted logline... but is the novel any better?... ------ Title: EARTHBOUND Logline: David and Ellen Cooper's 21-year marriage is nearing the rocks, so they decide to leave L.A. for a honeymoon on Long Island. Soon after they arrive at their beach cottage, a strange woman, Marianna, appears to David, who's immediately entranced. His growing fear and guilt becomes intensified after he and Marianna make love in a secret room in the house. Although Marianna is a ghost who rejects the afterlife, she appears real to all senses, believes she is alive and, through psychic attack, sucks life from the living. Writer: Ronnie Christensen Agency: International Creative Management Law Firm: Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson, and Binder Prod. Co: Parkes-MacDonald Productions imagenation abu dhabi Genre: Supernatural Thriller Logged: 2/10/2010 More: To be based on Richard Matheson's novel of the same name, which was optioned. Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Keri Selig will produce. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.91 |
First Henry James, then T. S. Eliot, now... Madonna?! (i.e., Americans who've gone "ape-Brit") --------------- Title: W.E. Logline: An affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson leads to the British royal abdicating from the throne to marry his divorcee lover. The two lived the rest of their lives as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and spend the best part of three decades living a life of leisure as social celebrities around the world. Writer: Alex Keshishian, Madonna Agency: Creative Artists Agency, Creative Artists Agency Prod. Co: Trademark Films Genre: Drama Bio Logged: 2/14/2010 More: Based on the true story. Colin Vaines and David Parfitt will produce. Madonna will also direct. [?!?!] | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.216 |
*Sigh*... there's something depressing about this... on so many, many levels... (like, why didn't I @#$#@ think of this first?!?!).... http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/lincoln’s-undead-tale-gets-deal/ | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.24 |
This is why - to whatever that question was, where the answer begins, "Because they just keep remaking old stuff, and won't try anything new - for example...." ------ Title: PET SEMATARY Logline: A family trades the city life for the country life in Maine, then discovers that they have moved near a pet cemetery that rests on an ancient burial ground. When the husband's toddler son is killed in an auto accident, the father takes the boy's body to the cemetery, where it is resurrected in demonic form. Writer: Matthew Greenberg Agency: United Talent Agency Studio: Paramount Pictures Prod. Co: di Bonaventura Pictures Genre: Horror Logged: 3/5/2010 More: Remake. Based on the novel by Stephen King. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Steven Schneider will produce. di Bonaventura's Mark Vahradian & David Ready will oversee. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.233.247 |
You know, the horror world is getting too small, that's what it is. I'd be happy if someone like Spike Jonze were doing this, or some other person not linked to horror, an Aronofsky perhaps, just to give it a new feel. Everyone making it seems too far into it - it feels inbred, has all these characteristics you see becoming more and more enhanced. I.E. the mirror thing from American Werewolf - if I see that in a horror film again I'll personally track down the makers and strangle them with my bare hands. I'm not speaking about this particular film, btw. (no need to say Aronofsky sort of directed horror here, that Requim for a Dream was one - I was just clutching names! ) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.181 |
Intriguing concept.... (Oh, Tony - your last post from almost a month ago - hell yes! Aronofsky directing a straight horror film! Judging from [pi] and REQUIEM and THE FOUNTAIN, that would be quite the must-see, whatever it is....) --------- Title: (Untitled Decision-Making Documentary) Logline: Twenty different cameras follow twenty different people on the exact same day as they make their daily decisions. Participants will be from diverse backgrounds and disparate geographies and face a wide range of decisions -- such as a wealthy couple in Los Angeles deciding where to purchase a house to a mother in a developing country figuring out how to feed her children, to a man on death row. Prod. Co: Electus Insurgent Media Genre: Documentary Logged: 4/1/2010 More: Created by Ben Silverman, Fisher Stevens and Sean Carver. Electus' Silverman and Insurgent's Stevens will produce. Fisher Stevens and Mark Monroe will co-direct. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.237.174 |
It was a toss-up, posting this here, or under the "It's Over" thread.... ------------- Title: PAUL IS UNDEAD Logline: John Lennon, a zombie guitarist in Liverpool, kills and reanimates Paul McCartney, then does the same with George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They create hits and bloody mayhem across the world, pursued by England's greatest zombie hunter, Mick Jagger. They also engage in a battle with Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono, and snack on the brains of swooning fans. Writer: Alan Goldsher (author) Agency: Movable Type Literary Group Prod. Co: Double Feature Films Genre: Horror Comedy Logged: 5/7/2010 More: Novel. Option. Double Feature's Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher will produce. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Not as a crazy as it seems, Craig. Remember:Bubba Ho-tep? Personally, I'd prefer to see Lennon as the zombie hunter, and Jagger as as the pursued. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.243 |
Yeah, Jagger just never seemed like a zombie hunter to me.... I bewildered at how rights issues play into all this - with the still-living members, that is.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.80 |
A while back I think I passed on the spec script for AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS to a few here. Well fwiw, today, at Scriptshadow, Carson Reeves gives his own review, and provides another link for those who still want a copy of it: http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/06/at-mountains-of-madness.html | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
What do you work at Craig?! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.230 |
What do you work at Craig?! At the moment, not a whole hell of a lot worth bothering about.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.1.51 |
Short article won't link, so I'm reprinting it here; from today's deadline.com. Starts off detailing a bizarre film concept, surely destined for disaster, with an execrable title... fades into an interesting discussion of a court case involving the Woolrich estate that I wasn't aware of.... Slingshot Productions and BBC Films are co-developing a teen thriller partly inspired by Strangers On a Train. The working title is Teens On a Train. Slingshot’s hoping to shoot in 2011. Joshua St Johnston, creator of BBC fashion drama Material Girl, is the writer. St Johnston co-founded Ray Winstone’s production company Size 9. The project takes Patricia Highsmith’s novel, filmed by Hitchcock, as its inception: two strangers meet on a train and agree to murder the person who’s making the other person’s life a misery. In Slingshot’s version boy meets girl, girl turns out to be raving psychopath... The idea developed out of a teen Hitchcock scriptwriting competition that Slingshot ran in 2007. But Hitchcock/Highsmith as only the point of embarkation. Before Sunrise is another influence, Slingshot CEO Arvind Ethan David tells me. Doubtless Slingshot watched last week’s ruling by a New York judge that 2007’s Disturbia was not a direct steal from Rear Window with interest. At the time of its release, many critics dismissed Disturbia as a direct by-the-numbers teen version of the Hitchcock classic. But New York district judge Laura Taylor Swan dismissed the lawsuit brought by the estate of Cornell Woolrich, writer of the original short story which Hitchcock based his 1954 movie on. Judge Taylor Swan ruled that “the main plots are similar only at a high, unprotectable level of generality”. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
That reminds me of an old B&W crime movie I watched years ago about a young boy who lives in a New York tenement and, while playing out on the fire escape one night, witnesses a murder in one of the rooms above - and much suspense involving the upstairs neighbour ensues. My memories are vague of it but I'd say the movie looked like it predated 'Rear Window'. Anyone know the name of this film and if it's any way linked to Cornell Woolrich's short story? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.1.51 |
Yes! It's called THE WINDOW! I just saw it a couple months back, coincidentally! It starred Bobby Driscoll. Made in 1949, five years before REAR WINDOW (and seven years after Woolrich's source material for that movie, "It Had To Be Murder"). Not a bad film at all, but lacked real tension, since - not a spoiler, just a fact - the film never once explains why the woman and man kill the other man, a big flaw. But pretty good film overall. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
The "Blood List" (of best specs going around Hollywood, a lesser-cousin of the Black List, for all scripts), of the best horror scripts of the past year floating around Hollywood (some loglines provided) being produced or not - just fwiw: http://www.tracking-board.com/the-blood-list-2010/ (Note the presence of WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE - with absolutely no credit given to Shirley Jackson?!) |