The “Blade Runner” director is joining forces with Leonardo DiCaprio to take on one of the most highly regarded dystopian works of literature, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.”
Both are producing the Universal project, which DiCaprio would tentatively star in and Scott direct. The studio has brought on “Apocalypto” scribe Farhad Safinia to write the script; he’s expected to be working shortly.
Scott has mentioned casually in interviews that he’s interested in the 1931 novel, whose film rights are owned by DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company, prompting a flurry of rumors on sci-fi and other blogs over the past year. But the studio details as well as DiCaprio’s personal involvement always have been murky.
Much of the timing going forward will depend on the script. Scott is not committed to direct anything beyond “Robin Hood,” which is in post-production. DiCaprio is shooting the Christopher Nolan adventure tale “Inception,” but does not have a movie lined up after that.
News for Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Teaser Trailer for ‘Dorian Gray’
Based on “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the story centers on Gray (Ben Barnes), a young man who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man descends into a hedonistic lifestyle, the portrait begins to age and morph, but he doesn’t. Firth plays Lord Henry Wotton, the aristocrat who corrupts Gray with his worldview.
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News for Friday, July 31st, 2009
Disney is on the verge of putting Rob Marshall in as director of a fourth installment of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” a move that puts the film on track for a 2010 production start, with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Last night, during the Hollywood premiere of Dunstan’s The Collector, I reconnected with the Twisted Pictures producing team who were able to confirm what I’ve been hearing about since January. A 3-D Saw sequel is coming…and it’s likely going to be part 7.
HBO announced the renewal of its entire summer lineup of original programing, ordering another round of freshman comedy “Hung,” veteran comedy “Entourage” and hit vampire drama “True Blood.”
Network executives addressing the critics at the Television Critics Association’s semiannual press tour said “Hung” will get a second season, “True Blood” a third and “Entourage” a seventh. The new seasons will debut in 2010, with “Blood” planned for summer.
Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its “Alien” franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director.
Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.
The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.
Michael C. Hall will topline indie “East Fifth Bliss,” directed by Michael Knowles.
Hall will play a 35-year-old whose static life comically unravels when he embarks on an awkward relationship with the 18-year-old daughter of a former high school classmate.
Knowles adapted the script with Douglas Light from Light’s novel of the same title, which received the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction.
Jon Favreau talks 3-D and IMAX for ‘Iron Man 3′
In a recent interview with MTV, Favreau discusses his thoughts on integrating 3-D and IMAX into the next sequel to ‘Iron Man’ and why it wasn’t used for ‘Iron Man 2′.
Trailer for Coen Brothers’ ‘A Serious Man’
“A Serious Man” is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him.
6 High Resolution Photos from ‘Astro Boy’
Summit Entertainment has released six high resolution photos from their upcoming animated feature ‘Astro Boy’.
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Tenma (Nicolas Cage). Powered by positive “blue” energy, Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly.
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