The script for Disney’s adaptation of the classic Jules Verne character Captain Nemo is getting a revision, as Randall Wallace (“Braveheart”) steps in to rework the script previously penned by Bill Marsilii ("Deja Vu") and Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li"). As MTV recently learned, the film’s origin story focus will remain and producers have been traveling the globe to scout possible shoot locations.
“We’re just back from Australia on Friday,” producer Sean Bailey told MTV News. “We were looking around Australia and New Zealand. It’ll be a big, big globe-trotting movie. We feel like if you’re going to go 20,000 leagues under the sea, [the audience] needs to feel like you’ve done it with [Nemo].” Read more...
"Shadow of the Colossus" stunned eye-candy-loving gamers when in launched for the Playstation 2 in 2005. Now, the modern-day merging of classic gameplay elements with highly ambitious in-game cinematics and stylized environments is officially in line to join "Tomb Raider," "Gears of War" and "Street Fighter" among Hollywood's big-screen game adaptations.
Kevin Misher, who produced the "The Scorpion King" and is currently attached to Peter Berg's "Dune," will produce the "Shadow of the Colossus" for Sony, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The move merely takes the property across Sony divisions, since Sony Computer Entertainment originally published the game. Read more...
By the power of Grayskull, how the heck do you turn a hero famous for a whimsical cartoon into a credible action hero? You first have to make him real, "Grayskull" screenwriter Justin Marks told MTV News.
"I grew up on the 'He-Man' cartoon and watched 'He-Man' six days a week. The notion that I think we most took from the cartoon are the characters, and trying to find a way that is true to them," he said of his planned adaptation, which is currently in development at Warner Brothers. "Now, at the same time, we had to come up with why that is the way it is. I mean you're talking about sword-and-sandal meets science fiction meets fantasy meets everything, and how does that all kind of blend into the same world? And so we had to come up with very specific rules that explained why Trapjaw looks the way he looks, and why Cyclops -- who is awesome -- looks the way he looks." Read more...