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James Cameron to Remake Forbidden Planet

22 December 2008 11:25 AM, PST | From ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news

 

Forbidden Planet rumors have been circulating for some time regarding a rehash of Robby the Robot. David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and many more big name directors have been batted around but here's one we haven't heard for a few years: James Cameron. Yes, the man behind Titanic, The Terminator and The Abyss still has some interest in reviving the 1956 sci-fi hit, according to an unnamed source at IESB.

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Joby Harold To Write Atlantis Rising

11 December 2008 1:54 AM, PST | From /Film | See recent /Film news

Awake screenwriter Joby Harold has been hired to adapt Platinum Studios’ five-part apocalyptic sci-fi comic book mini-series Atlantis Rising. Underworld and Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman is set to direct. Transformers writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci originally brought the project to DreamWorks, and will produce the project. THR says that Dreamworks envisions Atlantic Rising as “a big-budget, effects-driven sci-fi war movie in the vein of the James Cameron-directed Aliens and The Abyss.” Wow, high expectations. The book’s official plot description follows: “After more than a thousand years of peaceful coexistence, Atlantis and the surface world are on the brink of war with the fate of both civilizations [...]

Peter Sciretta

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Joby Harold Writing Atlantis Rising

11 December 2008 1:30 AM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Len Wiseman’s Atlantis Rising now has a writer. Writer-director Joby Harold is in talks to pen the screenplay for DreamWorks’ adaptation of the apocalyptic science fiction comic book. In Atlantis, an underworld civilization is discovered after seismic rumbles announce its presence. Hostilities with Earth's land-dwellers ensue. Transformers scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing along with Platinum Studios chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who created the original Atlantis Rising five-part series. The newly independent DreamWorks hopes to have Atlantis -- envisioned as a big-budget, effects-driven sci-fi war movie in the vein of the James Cameron-directed Aliens and The Abyss -- in theaters as a summer 2011 tentpole. Harold previously wrote and directed the thriller Awake, which starred Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin and Terrence Howard. He’s also attached to write the screenplay for the zombie flick, Army of the Dead.

James Cook

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Andromeda Strain director takes on the grail legend in Mortal Armor

5 November 2008 7:28 AM, PST | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

Mikael Salomon, director of the Mftv Andromeda Strain miniseries is teaming up with scifi producer extraordinaire, Gale Anne Hurd (Aliens, Terminator, The Abyss),to bring a 25-50 million dollar film about the quest for the Holy Grail to the big screen. Joel Gross, director of the awesomely underrated quasi apocalyptic flick No Escape is writing the film that is currently in pre-production.

With his dying breath, King Arthur asks the young Galahad to seek out the Holy Grail. His last hope? That the Grail's discovery might save the war-ravaged Kingdom from destruction. But as Galahad's epic journey unfolds, the quest for this holy and mysterious object leads him down unexpected new paths, as he finds his first love, his long-lost father Lancelot, and seeks to prove himself as a knight.

The flick is being produced by Seven Arts Pictures who are also behind the upcoming Neuromancer project.

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