As I always try to look for some new way to expand my offerings, I have decided to keep an eye out across the world of entertainment news and try my hand at news reporting/commentary on stories that catch my eye. Obviously, I cannot cover everything. What I will do is catch whatever I can as I can and hope that it delivers something new to you.
WB and a Common Computer Command
This is just a small piece of news, but the concept description is enough to grab my attention. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Warner Brothers has picked up the spec script from Tim Kelleher and Danny Zuker called Control-Alt-Delete. There is a combination of words familiar to anyone who has ever used a computer!
Here is the brief description: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure meets The Matrix.
Intrigued? Yeah, me too.
Sounds like a job for Keanu Reeves, right? Perhaps they could bring back Alex Winter, too. I love the Bill & Ted movies as well as The Matrix series (well, at least the first one). The two concepts could marry well, but it could also be an absolute disaster. Still, being a fan I have to be at least a little bit interested. Obviously this is not a guarantee that the film will be made, but it is a step in the right direction and a step that every writer with a screenplay likes to hear.
Tim Kelleher is best known as a character actor, and has only one produced credit, the Disney film First Kid. Danny Zuker has had a long career writing for television shows, including Roseanne and Just Shoot Me!
Eastwood to Helm Supernatural Themed Film
Here is some interesting news coming out of Variety: Clint Eastwood is set to direct a supernatural thriller titled Hereafter. I do not recall Clint tackling this genre before, but is there any doubt that he would do a wonderful job? Did not think so.
The plot details are being kept under close guard, but it is said to be in the vein of The Sixth Sense. Hopefully not so much as to be a rehash, but I doubt that is the case. The spec script was penned by Peter Morgan, whose most recent credit is Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon.
My thoughts keep coming back to Clint directing a supernatural thriller. The man is an absolutely incredible director and he shows no signs of slowing down. He was behind the recent drama Changeling and he has Gran Torino coming next month, not to mention the back to back releases of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima in 2006, and is currently preparing the Nelson Mandela centered The Human Factor.
World War Z Has a Director
Hot off of Quantum of Solace, the latest James Bond film, director Marc Forster has been tapped to direct the adaptation of World War Z for Paramount pictures. The news comes from Variety and the project sounds fascinating.
The film is based on a novel by Max Brooks (son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft). It concerns a worldwide zombie outbreak that pretty much decimates the planet. However, this is not about the war, although I am sure plenty of it will be shown; it concerns a researcher for a UN post-war commission putting together the details of the apocalyptic event. He interviews survivors from around the globe, collecting their first-hand accounts of the outbreak and war.
Article comments
1 - Jordan Richardson
One of the things that made The Host so great was the humour, so let's hope Hollywood doesn't leave that element out of the remake. I think it could be okay, generally, although I'm far from enthralled with Gore Verbinski.