Tag: Tony Scott
Ridley and Tony Scott Team Up For KILLING LINCOLN
National Geographic Channel President Howard T. Owens announced today that the network has partnered with Tony and Ridley Scott to produce the two-hour documentary of Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever, Bill O’Reilly’s New York Times best-selling book with co-author Martin Dugard. Media personality Mike Rowe is also on board to be part of the project.
Tony Scott Boards Drug Drama NARCO SUB
The Unstoppable producer/director Tony Scott is now attached up to direct Narco Sub, a drug-centric action thriller based on a spec script by relatively new screenwriter David Guggenhei.
While everyone wants to take a nap after the big Thanksgiving Day feast Scott and 20thCentury Fox used the holiday weekend to close a preemptive deal in Hollywood.
Stephen Frears Set To Direct THE BENGALI DETECTIVE Movie
British director Stephen Frears and screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis will reunite once again after that High Fidelity project back in 2000, for another great adaptation. At least we hope it will be great, because The Bengali Detective definitely deserves it. So, as you already guess Frears is on board to direct while DeVincentis will write an English-language feature adaptation of documentary The Bengali Detective for Fox Searchlight.
Tony Scott in Negotiations to Remake THE WILD BUNCH
Mere hours after Ridley Scott announced his come back to Blade Runner, the younger brother Tony Scott (Enemy of the State, Man on Fire) has attached to a new project and it’s the remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 western classic The Wild Bunch.
The notion of remaking The Wild Bunch first came up in January after the departure of executive Jessica Goodman. Now, Jesse Ehrman is the creative executive who will oversee the development of the project for Warners.
Screenwriter Hired for Mark Millar’s Nemesis
Things are moving forward with the upcoming Tony Scott‘s adaptation of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven graphic novel Nemesis, and we’re here to report that Matthew Michael Carnahan has been hired to write the script for the whole thing!
Carnahan has previously written Lions for Lambs, The Kingdom and State of Play and we guess that he’s the right man for the job.
Here’s quite interesting plot summary for Nemesis:
“CIVIL WAR? Nothing. KICK-ASS? A warmup. What if the smartest, toughest costumed bad ass in the world was totally evil? Meet Nemesis. He’s systematically been destroying the lives of every police chief in Asia, and he’s now set his sights on Washington, DC.
Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman Sign On to ‘Stoker’
It is reported that Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman are in talks to join Chan Wook-Park‘s (Oldboy) first English language film Stoker, which was written by Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller.
It would be the first movie that Colin Firth has shot since The King’s Speech utmost success at the box office. Firth had previously become lined up for a remake of Gambit, penned by Coen brothers, but that would, in all likelihood, shoot after Stoker.
Nicole Kidman, who gained massive critical acclaim and award buzz for her turn as a devastated mother in a Rabbit Hole, is also in talks to come aboard in a lead role.
Ridley and Tony Scott and The History Channel Team for American Civil War Docu Gettysburg
Make a room for one of the most critical events in our nation’s history – the Battle of Gettysburg!
We’re here today for something huge, so check this out – for 150th anniversary of America’s deadliest war, Ridley and Tony Scott are teaming up with the History Channel to produce film that will be titled Gettysburg!
“History is the perfect partner for us to tell the epic true story of Gettysburg. We are excited to bring this battle to audiences in a powerful new way.” That’s exactly what Ridley Scott had to say about this project in an interview with EW.
The film, as well as series and specials, will launch as a weeklong commitment to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War.
Kiefer Sutherland Confirms 24 Movie
As said by Kiefer Sutherland, the long-discussed film adaptation of 24, the Emmy Award-winning series that ended its run last year, should begin shooting in “about eight months.”
The film was originally planned to have been shot in between show’s sixth and seventh seasons (the show ran eight seasons). 24-hour timeframe will be filmed in two hours long. Sutherland said
It’s a very difficult thing to take something you’ve done for eight years, almost two hundred episodes, and try to find a story that’s going to be unique and yet service the history of the show as well.”
20th Century Fox Television has axed Billy Ray’s (State of Play) 24 film script. Howard Gordon, the longtime executive producer of 24 who is also anticipated to produce the big screen version, told EW exclusively.
There is talk about re-approaching it. I understand (director/producer) Tony Scott is meeting with Kiefer to talk about ideas. People are still talking about it.”
Warner Bros. Acquires A Conspiracy of Paper
Latest news from Hollywood goes like this: Warner Bros. has optioned the David Liss novel A Conspiracy of Paper for producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.
Danny Strong will adapt the novel for the studio and Scott Free Films.
Published in 2000, the novel is a mystery period tale set in London leading up to the bursting of the South Sea Bubble in 1720.
Or, if you prefer a little detailed description:
“Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: A Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London’s gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves.
In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver becomes entangled with a crime of the most personal sort, involving the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stock-jobber.
To find the answers he seeks, Weaver must contend with a garrulous prostitute who knows too much about his past, estranged relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have disguised their business dealings with an intricate web of deception and violence.
