Alex Proyas Attached To Direct Sci-Fi Action Flick AMPED
HeatVision reports that Daniel H. Wilson will have another of his sci-fi novels adapted into a film. The novel Amped has been picked up by Working Title with Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) attached to direct. Wilson’s other novel Robopocalypse has been turned into a feature with Steven Spielberg directing with Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway starring. Proyas had previously tapped to direct a large scale epic titled Paradise Lost based on the fall of Lucifer.
Set in the near future, Amped imagines a world where nanotech-enhanced people and ordinary humans are at war with one another.
TO BE CONSIDERED: Jennifer Connelly As Madame Hydra
Madame Hydra is Baron Strucker’s (new Hydra leader) second in command and the leader of the HYDRA sub-group The Serpent Seven. The role has been filled by many different women including Viper and former SHIELD agent Contessa Valentina Allegro De Fontaine. It could be an interesting to see SHIELD infiltrated by HYDRA having them trying to take the group down by covert methods. The villain had been rumored for The First Avenger but was used in the film’s game tie-in instead. Her involvement in Winter Soldier hasn’t been confirmed but a cameo could help setup a third film.
Oscar winning actress Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) would be my choice to take on the villainess. Her credits include Blood Diamond, Requiem For A Dream, Little Children, Dark City, Labyrinth and Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming bible epic Noah. Not to mention the love interest in Joe Johnston’s (First Avenger) adventurous Rockeeter. Yes, she played Betty in the original Hulk film but that has no direct connections with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ray Stevenson has played both The Punisher and Volstagg, so Connelly playing another Marvel character isn’t hard to imagine.
Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is portraying Fox’s version of the character in The Wolverine who also goes by Viper. However, she won’t have ties with either Hydra or Captain America.
Oscar nominated Argentine-French actress Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) is another person I’d love to see in the role.
Alex Proyas To Direct ‘JOE GOLEM AND THE DROWNING CITY’
Deadline reports that Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) will write and direct a feature adaptation of Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Joe Golem And The Drowning City. Mike is best known for creating the Hellboy and B.P.R.D. comic franchises. Proyas had been tapped to direct an epic feature based on Paradise Lost until Warner Bros. and Legendary axed the project over the budgetary issues.
“a supernatural-steampunk illustrated novel that follows an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem—a man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgotten–as they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan. In this vision, lower Manhattan sank into the water during a catastrophic earthquake in 1925, leaving those unwilling or unable to abandon it to make a new life in streets turned to canals.”
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