ComingSoon has obtained a list of films scheduled for the pre-strike production blitz.
If they occur, it won’t happen until next year — but strikes by the Directors Guild, Writers Guild, and Screen Actors Guild have seemingly already been accepted as a foregone conclusion by the major studios, and their production schedules have been affected accordingly. Now, according to a report at ComingSoon, a list of fast-tracked projects is making the rounds at “major talent agencies in Hollywood” — and the site has posted it for all to see.
It’s a pretty long list — click on the link below to get the complete rundown — but here are some of the highlights. From the article:
– Justin Lin will be returning to direct The Fast and the Furious 4.
– Director Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket) is attached to develop a movie based on the TV show “Land of the Lost.”
– Summit is trying to get rolling on the thriller Need directed by Ryan Murphy, which is to star Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. (ComingSoon.net spoke to Watts last week and she said that she’s still interested.)
– Adaptations of Stephen King’s Cell by Eli Roth and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi by Jean-Pierre Jeunet also appear on the list, making one think they’ll be rolling into production sooner rather than later.
– Guy Ritchie’s name is listed next to the Warner Bros. remake of The Dirty Dozen!
– A new directing project for Robert Redford is a movie called Against All Enemies.
– Stephen Sommers is not listed as the director of G.I. Joe even though it was recently announced by Hasbro via Variety.
– George Miller is listed in parentheses for Justice League, so maybe that’s not as definite as some sites would like to believe.
– The list confirms that Accepted director Steve Pink will helm Fletch Won for the Weinstein Company.
– Directors Justin Chadwick and Wayne Kramer are listed as possibles for something called Seventh Samurai from the Weinstein Company. Could this be the rumored remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai?
– The Coen Brothers, whose new movie No Country for Old Men comes out later this year and who are finishing up Burn After Reading with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, have a movie listed for Focus Features called The Serious Man.
– Director John Whitesell (Big Momma’s House) is listed next to a movie called Meatballs for Lionsgate, which is presumably a remake of the 1979 Bill Murray camp comedy.
– Matthew Vaughn’s Thor, which was just announced by Marvel Films, is on the list of movies being fast-tracked before the strike.
– Wolfgang Petersen is listed as the director for a movie called Alien Uprising.
– David Dobkin will direct Monster Hunter.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Follow the link for more!
Source: ComingSoon.net
