Tag: Steve Zaillian
Oscar-winning Screenwriter Steve Zaillian to Direct TIMECRIMES Remake
‘The most artful and subtle screenwriter Hollywood has had since Robert Towne,’ an Oscar winner for Schindler’s List and two-time nominee for Awakenings and Gangs of New York has earned its reputation as the undisputed king of the adaptation.
Steve Zaillian, who is of an Armenian descent like the genius Sergei Parajanov has written for Spielberg (Schindler’s List), Scorsese (Gangs Of New York), and Ridley Scott (Hannibal, American Gangster). His last adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s crime trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a superb work of art, regardless of some of its brutal content.
Zaillian also co-wrote the script for Moneyball along with Aaron Sorkin. His next projects including the planned English remake of Nacho Vigalondo’s Spanish science fiction film Timecrimes (Los Cronocrímenes) for DreamWorks Pictures.
Robert De Niro On Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Scott Rudin to Produce Scorsese’s Sinatra
Martin Scorsese is very busy director, and we already know that he has a lot of interesting projects on his mind – after Hugo Cabret he’ll make Silence, and there’s also a possibility for him to make an indie version of The Wolf of Wall Street.
But we also reported that one of the possible projects is The Irishman, movie that will have some great cast – Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. But is this really going to happen?
If you ask De Niro, the answer is: “Yeah, I’m planning on it, absolutely. Well, this time I’ll say it, I’ve said it before, its a movie based on a book called, ‘I Heard You Paint Houses,’ its about a guy who says, and I believe [the author of] the book – he’s passed away now – but he confessed that he killed [Jimmy] Hoffa and also Joe Gallo.
And so I’m gonna play that character. Joe Pesci is gonna be in it, Al Pacino is gonna be in it and Marty’s going to direct it.”
Jason Segel in Undercover Cop
Jason Segel will star in an upcoming DreamWorks “80s-era-comedy” titled Undercover Cop.
You probably remember this guy from titles like Forgetting Sarah Marshall or I Love You, Man, but he’ll now have a chance to star as the leading man (or, cop).
Undercover Cop is added to the list of comedies that DreamWorks currently has lined up which includes Forever 21, Home Movies and Reply All. So, if you’re interested in comedies, check out the rest of this report.
The story is inspired by the true tale of former cop that infiltrated the New Jersey criminal underworld in the era of feathered hair, zipper jackets and “Born in the U.S.A.”
And that’s basically all we know about this project, except the fact that Jason Micallef (Butter creator) is writing the script.
Steve Zaillian To Rewrite Paramount’s ‘Jack Ryan’
Steve Zaillian‘s boarding the project directed by Jack Bender (Lost), which will see Chris Pine (Star Track) step in the shows of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Allfleck to play the promising intellect analyst of the Tom Clancy novels.
Due to Paramount Studio needs Pine for the “Star Track” sequel, the project will push the start date further, possibly by up to four or five weeks.
Hossein Amini wrote a draft, then the studio shopped Adam Cozad‘s speculative screenplay “Dubai,” which reworked to a Jack Ryan film called “Moscow.” Now Steve Zaillian will do a run on the draft, and hopefully leave it in shooting outline.
Steve Zallian To Script The Girl Who Played With Fire
Looks that the The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is already a history. Exactly, because the new girl is in town, and this time: The Girl Who Played With Fire. Sounds familiar?
Well, that’s the point, since we’re here today to share with you something exclusive, folks from Sony has begun deal talks with Steve Zaillian to adapt the second installment of the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels written by Stieg Larsson!
So, director David Fincher continues to audition actresses to play computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in Sony Pictures Entertainment’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, with production that is set to begin this fall with Daniel Craig playing journalist Mikael Blomkvist and with Robin Wright Penn in the role of Erika Berger, the publisher of crusading finance magazine Millennium.
Carey Mulligan IS NOT The Girl With Dragon Tattoo
Ok, we had a little chat about Carey Mulligan playing (almost for sure) Lisbeth Salander, punk heroine of Stieg Larsson‘s bestselling trilogy.
Today, we had a chance to hear that Scott Rudin, producer of David Fincher‘s forthcoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie says it’s absolutely not true. Well, that’s just not nice! Decide it already!
Let us remind you, everything started when we heard that Mulligan “has won the approval of David Fincher, the director, and also the family of the late Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author who created Salander.”
We also had a chance to hear something like this: “the choice follows weeks of casting rumors, with producers sifting through nearly 5,000 potential candidates”.
On the other hand, Mulligan has already talked several times about being interested, and there’s no doubt that she could knock it out of the park.
Robert De Niro Returns To Gangster Role With Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese will team up on organized crime drama “I Heard You Paint Houses.”
The studio has attached Steve Zaillian (American Gangster, Schindler’s List) to adapt “I Heard You Paint Houses,” a book by Charles Brandt about the mob assassin Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran who many believe had something to do with the disappearance and presumed death of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. The title comes from how mobsters inquire about a hitman and hiring them for a job. However, this code has also led to unfortunate miscommunications resulting in very alive targets happily residing in freshly painted homes.
American Gangster
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.
Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city’s leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city’s mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.
Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.
