Tag: Scott Kosar
Christian Bale in Brad Anderson’s Concrete Island
Concrete Island – remember that title, because that’s the upcoming Brad Anderson‘s movie that will reunite him with Batman star, Christian Bale!
Reunite, exactly! We’re sure you already know that they previously worked together on 2004 psychological thriller The Machinist, right?
Here’s how director Anderson described the whole thing:
“The best way to describe it is it’s like an urban Robinson Crusoe story – a guy crashes a car into a highway interchange and is marooned in this weedy lot, injured, and can’t escape and he’s basically trying to survive in the middle of the big urban Metropolis.
Christian Bale Will Re-Team With Brad Anderson for Concrete Island
As confirmed by both ShockTillYouDrop and a We Got This Covered Brad Anderson, taught us that Christian Bale will be working on Concrete Island. The Machinist and The Crazies writer Scott Kosar is adapting.
Anderson (Session 9) who is now promoting his new film Vanishing on 7th Street, finishing in September, revealed the script will be based of a novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard (a twisted adaptation of “Robinson Crusoe”, in fact), which is centered on a man named Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect who ends up stranded on a man-made island with his only resources being what he came to the island with. There was no word on how different the screenplay would be versus the novel.
Hopefully we can get that one going soon, too, but that depends on Christian’s schedule. He’s had quite a year, you know,”
said Anderson.
Before began his film career, Andreson was majored in anthropology and Russian and it was not surprising that “The Machinist” was made under the influence of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Even The Third Man from “The Machinist” and ready to team up again on “Concrete Island”, writer Kosar, states that he was influenced by Dostoyevsky’s “The Double: A Petersburg Poem”.
The Crazies Review
The Crazies is a remake of George Romero’s 1973 cult classic about a small town infected by a mysterious virus that turns people into crazed killers with splotchy faces. It’s that rare case of the remake being better than the original.
Director Breck Eisner, working from a script by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright, delivers a brisk, tense horror film that enhances Romero’s work with state-of-the-art makeup, evocative cinematography of the barren Iowa landscape and crisp lead performances by Timothy Olyphant as the local sheriff and Radha Mitchell as his pregnant wife/town doctor.
Scott Kosar Writing Vlad
Screenwriter Scott Kosar has been hired to rewrite Summit Entertainment’s action horror film Vlad. Kosar has some experience in the genre after having written the remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, the Amityville Horror and The Crazies.
Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) wrote the original script.
Vlad, which is produced by Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner through their Plan B label, will revolve around Dracula as a young prince known as Vlad the Impaler, the man behind the Dracula myth.
