Tag: Paul Verhoeven
MGM Revives RoboCop Remake Together with Detroit Raising Statue
MGM will step forward on its long expecting reboot of RoboCop, in the past had The Wolverine director Darren Aronofsky set attached to chair.
RoboCop was originally being fast tracked for a summer 2010 release date. At the end of last year season, Darren Aronofsky revealed that he was still interested in bringing the half-man, half-machine back to the mean streets of Detroit. But now that he is lined up to direct “The Wolverine” which will start shooting next year, it isn’t clear where the filmmaker stands. He might returns only as a producer on the project.
While chatting to The Playlist about Black Swan, the theme of RoboCop came up, and this is what L.A. leader for the best director category (according to tweetmeter) had to say:
Well, ‘RoboCop’ may still happen one day, who knows? It’s MGM and hopefully they’ll clear their stuff up and I’m still interested. David Self (“Road to Perdition”) wrote a great script…”
Mind-Blowing Review
I would like to show a mind-blowing point of view on films it might interest you as well. If your opinion on psychoanalysis is not the issue and you can’t get such perspective on movies, let’s just amuse yourself.
Due to above mentioned perspective almost every movie has some kind of subtext. And as a result, these half-coded messages turn up in movies you’d never expect.
Spider-Man: Peter Parker‘s Man Juice
You think you’re watching superhero movie about a shy teenager named Peter Parker who discovers that a genetically engineered spider bite has given him superpowers. But this could easily be modified that Spider-Man really is all about semen, or puberty. We tend to find Spider-Man easier to identify with than other superheroes. He’s not an alien, like Superman, or the son of a major Norse god, like Thor. But that’s not all we have in common with Peter Parker: His superhero birth-trauma story is one with which we’re all painfully familiar — puberty.
Paul Verhoeven to Direct Eternal
Basic Instict director Paul Verhoeven is quite busy man.
He already has that The Hidden Force project bookmarked, and now it looks that another project will go first, and that new project is something titled Eternal.
We have some interesting details about the upcoming Verhoeven story, so make sure to check out…
Eternal centers on “..a married recovering alcoholic who helps a woman threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
They end up in bed, and in a torrid sexual affair. When he gets home, he’s confronted by his wife and a private investigator, with photos spread across a table.
Paul Verhoeven To Adapt The Hidden Force
Paul Verhoeven is back! At least, that’s what he said in an interview on Dutch talkshow Zomergasten, when he revealed that his next project will be movie titled The Hidden Force, based on the novel by Louis Couperus.
Director added that the story is about “rebellion against colonial rule, the emergence of fundamentalist Islam, the behavior between people, adultery and psychic powers. It is a story about things that we do not understand but it does happen.”
Or, if you prefer, more detailed The Hidden Force synopsis:
“In The Hidden Force the decline and fall of the Dutch resident Van Oudyck is caused by his inability to see further than his own Western rationalism. He is blind and deaf to the slumbering powers of the East Indian people and countryside.
Halle Berry To Star In THE SURROGATE
Halle Berry is in negotiations to star in the thriller “The Surrogate” for 20th Century Fox – don’t be confused with Bruce Willis‘ “The Surrogates.”
Roderick and Bruce Taylor, who previously wrote Jodie Foster thriller “The Brave One,” have adapted the script from Kathryn Mackel’s book.
Director Paul Verhoeven is onboard to develop the project, which follows a couple as they hire a surrogate to carry their child. But all is not as it seems with the apparently perfect surrogate. In the book, dark secrets in her past come back to haunt them all (in a supernatural sense). The surrogate – the baby carrier is insane…
Columbia Set To Remake Total Recall
Remember the classic sci-fi film “Total Recall” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? The original came out in 1990. Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of “Total Recall,” movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.
