Timur Bekmambetov to Direct Moby Dick
According to the report from Variety, Universal Pictures has decided to produce a big budget reimagiging of Herman Melville’s classic literary tale Moby Dick with “Wanted” director Timur Bekmambetov to work from a screenplay being written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (both of New York Minute and Accepted previously) for “a high six figures.”
The writers revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.
This change will allow them to depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.
Cooper said:
“Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick’ ” This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story.”
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Mark Millar Talks About “Wanted 2″
With “Wanted” being a huge success this summer, it’s no surprise that creator of the graphic novel, Mark Millar is already talking plans for more sequels to the film.
Plans were put into motion to make another movie as soon as the movie broke the $50 million mark, and Millar was of course happy to oblige:
“What I will be doing is providing them with a very small amount of stuff for a story, and that will be used as a basic story that they can build from. It will be a small outline that can possibly be picked apart and not used - but it will be something exclusively for the second film, and no one will ever really see it…. It will be some of the stuff that we didn’t utilize from the first book for the movie - like chapters three and four - there will be some stuff from that, so in the loosest sense it will be based on the book, but only very little,”
Timur Bekmambetov directed the flick, but there’s still no word if he, or star James McAvoy, will return for the sequel.
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”Wanted” New Red Band Clip
Great new restricted ”Wanted” clip is on line and features Wesley (James McAvoy) in an intense battle on a train splitting bullets and the Fox (Angelina Jolie) jumps her car right into the moving train.
”Wanted” will hit the theaters on June 27th, 2008.
watch the clip after the jump
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Universal’s The Knights Templar
Universal Pictures has acquired The Knights Templar, a script from Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley for Marc Platt and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov to produce.
According to Variety, the story puts a horror spin on the famed organization of fighters from the Middle Ages, with the Knights Templar, fresh from the Crusades, forced to fend off an invading vampire army set on destroying the Holy Grail.
No production date has been set.
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