Tag: Mike Medavoy
Monty Python Gang Reunite for Sci-Fi Comedy ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING
Members of the beloved Monty Python’s Flying Circus are set to return once more to the big screen together for Absolutely Anything, a sci-fi farce that will be a mixture of CGI and live action, with Terry Jones to direct and Mike Medavoy (Black Swan, Life of Brian) to produce.
Flick about a group of naughty aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do ‘absolutely anything’ to see what would happen. Unable to handle his newfound abilities and because humans are so selfish and dumb and ignoring the advice from his talking dog named Dennis voiced by Robin Williams, chaos ensues.
Paranormal Activity 2 Director Attached to Adapt THOSE ACROSS THE RIVER Horror Novel
Mike Medavoy has optioned the film rights and he will produce alongside Akiva Goldsman the big-screen adaptation of literary horror novel Those Across the River. Paranormal Activity 2′s Tod ‘Kip’ Williams is attached to scribe and direct the film version of a ‘page-turner’ book by Christopher Buehlman, published in September.
Ray Bradbury Joins Forces with Mike Medavoy to Bring DANDELION WINE to the Big Screen
It is worth mentioning that many of Ray Bradbury‘s works have been adapted for TV and film, such as The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, based on Bradbury’s story ‘The Fog Horn,’ Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury, as well, wrote the screenplay for director John Huston’s version of Moby Dick, while his stories also have been adapted in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and The Twilight Zone.
Now, one of his most enduring novels, Dandelion Wine is set for a film adaptation. Rodion Nahapetov, who works as an actor (2008s Contamination) as well as a writer and director is attached to provide the script.
