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“Fantastic Voyage” On Hold Due To “Water”


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With the buzz on Guillermo del Toro’s period fantasy romance tale “The Shape of Water” proving strong, 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm have reportedly paused prep work on the filmmaker’s next film – the “Fantastic Voyage” remake.

With del Toro potentially finding himself in the midst of a very busy awards season, Deadline reports that Fox and Lightstorm have agreed to keep del Toro’s schedule open until after the Oscar ceremony next March.

The companies will now regroup and pick up the prep next year with production aiming for a late Summer/Fall start. The original 1965 “Fantastic Voyage” follows a team of scientists who get miniaturized and inserted into the body of a colleague to save his life.

“The Shape of Water” meanwhile takes place during the Cold War and stars Sally Hawkins as a mute janitor working at a top secret government facility that houses a fish man. It will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival ahead of screenings at Toronto and Telluride before opening in cinemas on Decemb
 

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The God Wave Trilogy
Stone Village Films’ Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell are set to produce an adaptation of Patrick Hemstreet’s “The God Wave Trilogy” with plans for a series of films. The pair are meeting with directors and writers.

The story follows a team of neuroscientists who must face the consequences of playing God when the superhumans they’ve created threaten to annihilate humanity.



A team of neuroscientists uncover amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fiction—Limitless meets James Rollins—that combines spirituality and science in an inventive, mind-blowing fashion.

For decades, scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain. Now, neuroscientist Chuck Brenton has made an astonishing breakthrough. He has discovered the key—the crucial combination of practice and conditioning—to access the incredible power dormant in ninety percent of our brains. Applying his methods to test subjects, he has stimulated abilities that elevate brain function to seemingly “godlike” levels.

These extraordinary abilities can transform the world, replacing fear and suffering with tranquility and stability. But in an age of increasing militarization, corporate exploitation, and explosive technological discovery, a group of influential powerbrokers are determined to control these new superbeings for their own manipulative ends?and their motives may be far from peaceful.
 

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The God Wave Trilogy
Stone Village Films’ Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell are set to produce an adaptation of Patrick Hemstreet’s “The God Wave Trilogy” with plans for a series of films. The pair are meeting with directors and writers.

The story follows a team of neuroscientists who must face the consequences of playing God when the superhumans they’ve created threaten to annihilate humanity.



A team of neuroscientists uncover amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fiction—Limitless meets James Rollins—that combines spirituality and science in an inventive, mind-blowing fashion.

For decades, scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain. Now, neuroscientist Chuck Brenton has made an astonishing breakthrough. He has discovered the key—the crucial combination of practice and conditioning—to access the incredible power dormant in ninety percent of our brains. Applying his methods to test subjects, he has stimulated abilities that elevate brain function to seemingly “godlike” levels.

These extraordinary abilities can transform the world, replacing fear and suffering with tranquility and stability. But in an age of increasing militarization, corporate exploitation, and explosive technological discovery, a group of influential powerbrokers are determined to control these new superbeings for their own manipulative ends?and their motives may be far from peaceful.
I saw this episode of STAR TREK.

It was called SPACE SEED.
 

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Alien Sleeper Cell

Justin Monjo (“Storm Boy,” “Jungle””) is set to rewrite Morgan Davis Foehl’s original draft for the sci-fi spy alien invasion thriller “Alien Sleeper Cell” which has “V For Vendetta” helmer James McTiegue attached to direct.
 

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So, for me, I just don't see anything good coming out of it and if @Gavin is this upset about all of it then....how dare they!!!!!!!!!!
Funnily enough I was one of the (apparently few) people who enjoyed the 2008 remake series of Knight Rider. So I'm not opposed to remakes in general. Just the idea of taking a serious idea and turning it into a joke. Plus the whole concept of Knight Rider makes more sense as a series rather than a movie.
 

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“Lord of the Flies” Remake Switches Gender


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Scott McGehee & David Siegel (“The Deep End,” “What Maisie Knew”) have signed on to write and direct a new adaptation of William Golding’s iconic novel “Lord of the Flies,” but this time with a key twist – an all-female cast.

The original 1954 novel focuses on a group of pre-adolescent British school boys fleeing the war who become marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island. So begins a disastrous attempt to govern themselves with things quickly falling into a chaotic frenzy of paranoia, torture and murder as the boys turn tribal and feral.

The property has been adapted to screen notably twice before – in 1963 by Peter Brook and in 1990 by Harry Hook. The new take switches out the boys for young girls, but otherwise is said to be a “very faithful but contemporized adaptation”.

Having just closed their deals with the studio and with rights issues now worked out with the author’s estate, they will begin writing immediately



The original 1963 Movie Trailer......






And the 1990 remake.......




 

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THE BOOK'S AUTHOR ON WHY THERE'S NO 'LADY OF THE FLIES'

Author William Golding had the following to say about why The Lord of the Flies featured no female characters, much less an all-girl cast.

'Girls say to me, very reasonably, "Why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?" Well, my reply is I was once a little boy - I have been a brother, a father, I am going to be a grandfather.

'I have never been a sister, or a mother, or a grandmother. That's one answer.

'Another answer is of course to say that if you, as it were, scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

'Don't ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say because I'm going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality - this is nothing to do with equality at all.

'I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

'But one thing you can't do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilization, of society.

'The other thing is - why aren't they little boys AND little girls? Well, if they'd been little boys and little girls, we being who we are, sex would have raised its lovely head, and I didn't want this to be about sex.

'Sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil and the problem of how people are to live together in a society, not just as lovers or man and wife.'



William Golding discusses his great novel, origins & meaning.



 

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Co-Writer McGehee told Deadline that swapping genders in the film would be an “opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn’t been told before,” and that “... it shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew. It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression.”

The script has yet to be written, but McGehee admitted the pair were “super eager to put pen to paper.”
 
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Spike Lee Eyed For Sony & Marvel’s “Nightwatch”


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We know of “Venom” and “Silver and Black,” now there’s reports of a third “Spider-Man” spin-off film in the planning stages at Sony Pictures – “Nightwatch”.

In fact, Jeff Sneider of Meet The Movie Press says the studio already has “Now You See Me” screenwriter Ed Ricourt working on the script and have a high-profile director in mind to helm the tale – none other than Spike Lee.

First appearing in comics in 1993, Nightwatch is Doctor Kevin Trench who witnesses a costumed man die battling terrorists armed with invisibility cloaking devices. He unmasks the corpse, only to see it is an older version of himself.

Taking the costume, he first flees then decides to investigate its origins. The suit, which is very similar to that of “Spawn” which has led to claims of “Nightwatch” being a ripoff, boasts nanotech to repair itself and has increased strength and durability.

Sneider says he’s ‘very confident’ in the report, but it remains very much rumor for now.



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Nightwatch is a fictional superhero who has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics.

He exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.



Publication history

Most of his appearances came in the 1990s in various titles starring Spider-Man and in his own short lived, self-titled series.

One of his more prominent roles was in the Maximum Carnage crossover.

He first appeared in Web of Spider-Man #97 - less than a year after Todd McFarlane's Spawn, whose costume the armour resembles, with a prehensile cloak and self-repair abilities.

Fictional character biography

Nightwatch was Doctor Kevin Trench, who witnessed a costumed man die battling some terrorists armed with invisibility-generating 'cloaking" devices, and unmasked the corpse to learn that it was an older version of himself.

His first appearance was in Web of Spider-Man #99.

Freaking out, Trench stripped the costume from "his" body and fled to a deserted island, reasoning that if he just never wore the suit or went home, he wouldn't die.

Events conspired to bring him back, as the criminal Alfredo stole one of the costume gloves after washing up on the island and being nursed to health by Trench.

After Alfredo had been dealt with, Trench decided that he couldn't avoid his destiny, and decided to investigate the costume's origins.

In the interim, he battled menaces like the "Maximum Carnage" gang, who were wreaking havoc across New York and slaughtering dozens of innocent civillains.

He had many allies in the fight, including, but not limited to, Captain America, Black Cat, Deathlok and Firestar.

Graduating into his own book, Nightwatch encountered similar "cloaked" villains, and was shocked when their technology merged with and enhanced his costume.

Ultimately, project head Phillip Morelle proved to be recklessly conducting nanotech experiments to make a replacement skin for his dying son Justin.

Nightwatch fought his way onto Phillip Morelle's space station to confront him but not before Phillip sends two assassins into the past to kill Nightwatch using his nanotechnology to open a time portal.

Much to both Nightwatch and Phillips surprise that same time technology allows a future version of Justin Morelle to travel into the present.

Future Justin, armed with a more advanced version of Nightwatch's own suit, kills his father and reveals that the nanotechnology his father was developing produced a dangerously unstable energy matrix that in his time line devastated North America killing billions.

Justin upgraded Nightwatch's armor to its final evolution and the two of them worked together to destroy the space station before the disaster could happen.

In the epilogue present day Justin Morelle, the son of Phillip and Trench's ex, received the nanotech skin from the project as his father had dreamed.

Seeing his ex happy with her healed son Nightwatch chose to travel into the past and complete the time loop with Cardiac's help, ensuring his own death but also ensuring the cataclysm timeline would never come to pass ensuring this happy ending would be the true timeline.

The series ends with Kevin's trip into the past while future Justin's fate remains unclear.

Retcon Death

In an editorial oversight, Nightwatch, back in his pre-future tech suit, was an innocent victim of the Great Game.

While trying to protect Justin, he was slain by the mercenaries Polestar and El Toro Negro.

Polestar used the magnetic powers of his costume to peel away just enough of Trench's nanite costume for El Toro Negro to shoot him point blank in the chest.

El Toro Negro then immediately turned on Polestar, shooting him between the eyes.

Nightwatch survived but knew he had been fatally wounded, and used the last of his costume's power to go back in time and try to warn his past self of what would happen, to keep him from meeting this ignoble end, and try to prevent his girlfriend's death in the process.


Reappearance And reinvention

Kevin Trench reappears in street clothes at the newly established law practice of Jennifer Walters, a.k.a. the She-Hulk, regarding a legal case referred to only as "the blue file", involving several costumed superhumans, including Walters and Trench, which an unrevealed agency seems determined to keep unresolved.

No explanation is given regarding Trench's previously established "deaths"; instead, he is stated as "keeping....an extremely low profile", using the Nightwatch nanotech sparingly while maintaining a medical practice and doing charity work.

He aids Walters in beating back a sudden assault from grotesque creatures, donning the Nightwatch helmet and manifesting tentacles from the inner surface of his trench coat.

A few days later, he calls Walters and informs her that he has spread word of her fledgling law practice to other "guys from back in the day--people like me who took what they could from the [superhero] game and moved on", bringing an influx of new potential clients to Walters' office.

However, it is later discovered that Trench himself is behind the attempts to keep Walters from further investigating the "blue file": legal papers regarding a lawsuit filed in a North Dakota county court which names She-Hulk and a small group of heroes and villains as defendants.

The suit is a mystery to all involved, as none have any recollection of the plaintiff or having participated in any event in North Dakota.

Furthermore, there are no records of any kind or any memories of anyone in the superhero or local community, nor any record of the town in which the actionable event was supposed to have taken place having ever existed.

In truth, the man now known and respected as the retired D-list superhero and wealthy philanthropist "Nightwatch" spent most of his career as a supervillain named "Nighteater."

Wishing to become a superhero for selfish reasons (respect, plus a comfortable and safe retirement), he hired Doctor Druid, The Shocker, and Vibro to aid him in casting a powerful spell that effectively "retconned" all memories and all existing documented history into believing that "Nightwatch" had worked for years in the superhero community.

The spell consumed the lives of the hundreds of residents of the North Dakota town in which it was cast.

It was so successful, however, that when it was complete the four heroes (She-Hulk, Tigra, Monica Rambeau, and Wyatt Wingfoot) who had been trying to save the town immediately joined "Nightwatch" in bringing Druid, Shocker, and Vibro to justice.

The spell was effective for many years.

It was finally undermined when the lone survivor of the town, who had failed to convince the law enforcement or hero communities that anything had happened whatsoever, filed the civil suit, and left behind a single document that She-Hulk's paralegal was able to locate.

She was able to use this document (and her own unexplained mystic powers) to break She-Hulk and her team of their convictions in Nighteater's false history.

"Nightwatch"/"Nighteater" was brought to justice.

Powers and abilities

Nightwatch's costume boosted his strength and durability by triggering his adrenal glands, and nanotechnologically repaired itself.

His cape responded to his subconscious thoughts to move on its own to attack his foes as well as allowing him to glide on air.

After he was boosted by the later-generation Morelle technology, the durability of the costume increased, the cape became more metallic, and he had something closer to true flight in addition to increased speed and eventually nanotech cutting blade



 

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Showalter Helms Bank Robber Tale “Cowboy Bob”


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Coming off the success of “The Big Sick” this summer, filmmaker Michael Showalter has set up his next project – the modern western dramedy “The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob” at Fox Searchlight.

The story will follow a real-life 1990s Texas bank robber named Peggy Jo Tallas, who got away with her heists by dressing up as a man. It will be based on Skip Hollandsworth’s 2005 article about Peggy Jo that was written for Texas Monthly.

The Article.....

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/


The lead actress has not yet been cast in the project which Riva Marker and Jake Gyllenhaal will produce through their company Nine Stories.


The real Peggy Jo Tallas.....


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The following docu-drama about her life and criminal career has somehow turned the sixty year old Peggy Jo Tallas into a much younger lady! Most odd! :emoji_confused:



 

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“IT” Director Up For Vampire Prequel “Dracul”


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Paramount Pictures has scored screen rights to “Dracul,” the first prequel to “Dracula” that has been authorized by the estate of author Bram Stoker.

Written by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker, the 1868-set tale follows a 21-year old Bram Stoker who meets with an ungodly evil that he traps in an ancient tower all the while scribbling the events that led him there.

The project is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for “IT” director Andy Muschietti in a few years, with Barbara Muschietti and Roy Lee also onboard to produce.
 

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Dacre Stoker's previous Dracula book was a sequel to the novel.....


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Dracula the Un-dead is a sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula. The book was written by Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt.

Previously, Holt had been a direct-to-DVD horror screenwriter, and Stoker a track and field coach.

In the novel's afterword, the authors discuss the many alterations made to the original novel's events, due to the many inconsistencies in the original and the desire for the Stoker family to reclaim their property



Reception

Critical reaction to Dracula the Un-dead has been mixed.

Dracula scholar Leslie S. Klinger, writing for the Los Angeles Times, wrote that he did not consider the book to really be a sequel to Dracula because "no author would permit a sequel that boldly claims the original got the story wrong," but that it was "a fine book in its own right, one that pushes the story in unexpected directions while remaining true to the dark heart of the Transylvanian vampire-king."

Michael Sims of the Washington Post wrote, "Stoker and Holt dump everything into their furiously boiling kettle of clichés -- bucketfuls of gore, creepy sex, a torture scene that comes across as lesbian vampire porn. ... But I don't mean to complain that this cheeseburger is not caviar. Un-Dead is cinematically fast-paced, flying from London to Paris to Transylvania, and the historical texture is mostly convincing."

Sandy Amazeen of Monsters and Critics felt that "the pace is good and there are a few new plot twists, but not enough to make up for the overall canned feel of this disappointing attempt to redraw some old roles."

Bruce G. Smith of Blogcritics wrote, "It's quite realistic, scarily so, which makes Dracula the Un-Dead a sequel worthy of the original. The story is a page-turner; the details are gripping; the horror, well, it's horrifying. It's a great book to read – albeit an imperfect one."

Monica Valentinelli of Flames Rising Horror Webzine wrote, "I believe that what they wanted was a book that would do all things for all readers, but in this case I feel that their lofty goals fall short." "If you want to pick up Dracula the Un-dead, pick it up for an interesting take on the 'happily-never-after.' Pick it up because you're interested in reading a different take on the vampires that aren't 'pretty' but truly monstrous. For on that note, Dracula the Un-dead does succeed."

Moira Macdonald wrote in the Seattle Times "it's an odd piece of work, bearing about as much resemblance to the original as Bela Lugosi does to Robert "Twilight" Pattinson."

Amy Gwiazdowski, writing for Bookreporter.com, wrote that: "In the end, Dracula The Un-Dead is a fast read and exciting in parts, but I think too much is asked of readers of the original in having to forgo old beliefs of who and what Dracula is. It’s best to just enjoy it for what it is: another vampire story for October."



 

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Casey Affleck Joins Joe Wright’s “Stoner”


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Casey Affleck has picked his first post-Oscar win project, signing on for Joe Wright’s “Stoner” based on the novel by John Williams.

Set at the end of the nineteenth century, William Stoner is born into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family who falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life.

He soon encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a ‘proper’ family estranges him from his parents, his career is stymied, his wife and daughter leave him, and a new love ends in scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, he confronts an essential solitude.

The project has been setup at Cohen Media Group, Film4, and Blumhouse in what’s being considered a potential awards contender.
 

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Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams.

It was reissued in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern.

Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel.

Throughout the 200-word prologue and 200-page novel, Stoner follows William Stoner's undistinguished career and workplace politics, his marriage to Edith, his affair with his colleague Katherine, and his love and pursuit of literature.

'It's the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature' Ian McEwan, BBC Radio 4

Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer – in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deserves. Have you read it yet?

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured.





Biography

John Williams was born on August 29, 1922 in Clarksville, Texas.

He served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India.

The Swallow Press published his first novel, Nothing But the Night, in 1948, as well as his first book of poems, The Broken Landscape, in 1949.

Macmillan published Williams' second novel, Butcher's Crossing, in 1960.

After recieving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Denver, and his Ph.D from the University of Missouri, Williams returned in 1954 to the University of Denver where he taught literature and the craft of writing for thirty years.

In 1963 Williams received a fellowship to study at Oxford University where where he received a Rockefeller grant enabling him to travel and research in Italy for his last novel, Augustus, published in 1972.

John Williams died in Arkansas on March 4, 1994


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Martin Campbell To Helm “Ali Baba” Movie


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“Casino Royale” and “The Mask of Zorro” helmer Martin Campbell has been hired to direct “Treasure of Ali Baba & The 40 Thieves,” a new spin on the classic 1,001 Arabian Nights tales.

The story follows an adventure novelist caught up in a global conspiracy and a hunt for a mysterious antiquity after discovering that his father had a map to the legendary treasure of Ali Baba.

He teams with a brilliant cartographer to locate the artifacts before they fall into the hands of the 40 Thieves – an ancient group who has quietly become a powerful, international syndicate of criminals in high-ranking corporate positions.

Dave Holstein penned the most recent draft of the script. Ehud Bleiberg, Danny Dimbort and Nicholas Donnermeyer will produce.
 
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Millennium Developing A “Sheena” Reboot


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Millennium Films has announced plans for a new adaptation of the 1930s comic book property “Sheena, Queen of the Jungle”.

Created by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger, and partly inspired by H. Rider Haggard’s iconic 1886 novel “She,” Sheena was the first female comics character to have her own title.

In the comics, Sheena was an orphan who lived in the jungle. She could communicate with wild animals and was a proficient fighter with basic weapons. In her adventures, she took on slave traders, evil white hunters and wild animals.

One change with the new interpretation is that it will be set in the jungles of the Amazon rather than Africa.

The property was adapted for TV in the 1950s (with Irish McCalla) and 2000 (with Gena Lee Nolin), and was most famously adapted onto film in 1984 with Tanya Roberts in the role.

Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Joe Gatta, Boaz Davidson, John Thompson, Lati Grobman and Christa Campbell will produce.


Previous incarnations......









 
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