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.
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.”
Crow Remake Gets New Writer And Director
It was reported this week that the rights to The Crow remake has been settled between the Weinstein Company/Miramax and Relativity Media (Immortals). Now with that issue behind them they can pursue a new director and cast. Previously names like Mark Wahlberg and Bradley Cooper were loosely attached to play Eric Draven. Deadline reports that Jesse Wigutow (The Osterman Weekend) has been hired to write the remake’s script. It sounds like the studio is eager to get this made quickly as ShowBlitz reports F. Javier Gutierrez (Before The Fall) will be the new director.
The original Crow (1994) stands as one of my favorite comic book films. It set the tone for more dark and serious comic book films like Blade and The X-Men. The cult hit proved to studios that they could make non-campy comic book films and it would be successful. The notorious tragic death of star Brandon Lee after live rounds were used in a shootout scene became a wake up call to safety measures in the industry. Lee’s death during the production makes this even more special to fans like myself. If not highly protective of it and negativity to any idea of trying to remake it. I’ll wait until casting announcements and a trailer before I rush to judge the intentions of Relativity.
Bradley Cooper In Talks For The Crow
HeatVision reports that Bradley Cooper is in early talks to take the role of Eric Draven in The Crow remake. The say that Cooper met with recently announced director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) in Spain about the film. Previously Mark Wahlberg had been linked for the role but it doesn’t look like that will be happening.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Will Direct Crow Remake
Deadline is reporting that 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has been hired to helm the invention of cult comic book film The Crow. Mark Wahlberg has been linked for the lead but has said he has yet to read a script.
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