Latest Hollywood script deals
March 10th 2009 05:28
Just aa little something that I read a week or so ago. Keeps you up to date with whats coming on in LALA LAND
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - David Ayer has been hired to write the screenplay for the DreamWorks film "Deep Sea Cowboys."
His script will be based on Joshua Davis' article in Wired last year about a salvage crew attempting to save a capsized Japanese cargo ship. The real-time action scenario will explore how a tightknit crew races to beat the clock and potential drowning to save the ship's dangerous cargo and claim its reward.
Ayer's writing credits include "U-571," "Training Day" and "S.W.A.T.," and he wrote and directed 2006's "Harsh Times." But his experience 20 years ago as a Navy grunt on a Cold War nuclear submarine was the true selling point, according to producer Alex Kurtzman. "When we sat down with him, he had an innate, organic understanding of the story and started pitching out ideas that can only come from someone who has lived this kind of thing."
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Men in Black" writer Ed Solomon has been hired to take a crack at "The Hardy Men," a comic riff on the classic young-adult mystery novels about two brothers who solve crimes.
Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise remain lined up to star, with "Night at the Museum" helmer Shawn Levy attached to direct.
The Hardy Boys adventures revolved around the mystery-solving efforts of teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur detectives who often helped their father, a private investigator.
The film adaptation would explore the reunion of the estranged, grown-up brothers, who work together to solve a new mystery. The Fox 2000 comedy has been on many writers' laptops during its 10-plus years in development, most recently that of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" screenwriter Simon Kinberg.
Solomon has Paramount's Eddie Murphy comedy "Imagine That," written with Chris Matheson, set to hit theaters in June and "Tokyo Suckerpunch" in development with actor-producer Tobey Maguire at Sony.
Sources: Dean Goodman www.reuters.com
Hollywood Reporter.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - David Ayer has been hired to write the screenplay for the DreamWorks film "Deep Sea Cowboys."
His script will be based on Joshua Davis' article in Wired last year about a salvage crew attempting to save a capsized Japanese cargo ship. The real-time action scenario will explore how a tightknit crew races to beat the clock and potential drowning to save the ship's dangerous cargo and claim its reward.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Men in Black" writer Ed Solomon has been hired to take a crack at "The Hardy Men," a comic riff on the classic young-adult mystery novels about two brothers who solve crimes.
Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise remain lined up to star, with "Night at the Museum" helmer Shawn Levy attached to direct.
The Hardy Boys adventures revolved around the mystery-solving efforts of teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur detectives who often helped their father, a private investigator.
The film adaptation would explore the reunion of the estranged, grown-up brothers, who work together to solve a new mystery. The Fox 2000 comedy has been on many writers' laptops during its 10-plus years in development, most recently that of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" screenwriter Simon Kinberg.
Sources: Dean Goodman www.reuters.com
Hollywood Reporter.
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