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Constantine is scheduled for a 11 February 2005 release.
OLIVER TWIST
'Variety' reports that Ben Kingsley will play Fagin and 10-year-old English
actor Barney Clark has the title role in director Roman Polanski's Oliver
Twist.
Polanski has also cast Jamie Foreman as Bill Sykes and Frank Finlay as Mr.
Brownlow in his adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous novel.
The film, which starts a four-month shoot on 12 July in Prague, is produced
by Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa, the team behind Polanski's Oscar-winning
movie The Pianist. It will be shot entirely in the Czech Republic, with
interiors and exteriors built on Barrandov Studios' backlot.
PATTERN RECOGNITION
Director Peter Weir (Master & Commander) is attached to direct Pattern
Recognition, a thriller by sci-fi author William Gibson, to be adapted by
Weir and David Arata.
The film follows the adventures of a marketing expert who finds herself in a
dangerous puzzle when she's hired to track down the source of a strange
collection of video footage on the Internet.
KING KONG
'Entertainment Weekly' interviewed director Peter Jackson about his upcoming
adaptation of King Kong. Jackson: "We are not reinventing it. Our story
follows the same structure. It starts in New York, goes to Skull Island, and
there's dinosaurs on the island. Then it comes back to New York and there's
the Empire State Building and the biplanes and the whole thing."
"[We're trying to make it more] emotionally truthful. I put that ahead of
anything else, including technology and the realism of the effects."
"Everybody's image of King Kong is that it's this amazing
beauty-and-the-beast love story. And when you look at the original film,
there is as sense that Kong is feeling an attraction toward Ann - probably
the first empathy he's felt in his life toward another living creature."
"But Ann is not giving him a thing. She just looks at him as an object of
horror the entire time. She screams at him, she's terrified. Her
relationship with Kong doesn't go beyond that. We're having a lot of fun
making it more psychologically real."
King Kong will be released in December 2005.
THE LOVELY BONES
Director Peter Jackson and writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
are in talks to adapt Alice Sebold's best-selling novel The Lovely Bones
after completing their King Kong remake, reports 'Variety'.
The Lovely Bones is a heartbreaking tale narrated by a 14-year old girl
after she has been raped and murdered. From heaven, the girl observes her
shattered family's attempt to heal, as a detective tries to solve the case
and her killer moves along his demented path...
The film rights are held by 'FilmFour' and producer Aimee Peyronnet, who
made an option deal in 2000 based on the book's first 100 pages.
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Screenwriter Mark Protosevich (The Cell) is writing a remake of The Poseidon
Adventure for director Wolfgang Petersen's 'Radiant Pictures' and 'Warner
Brothers'.
The original movie, released in 1972, told the story of a group of survivors
trapped on a passenger ship after it was capsized by a monster wave. A
sequel followed in 1979, Beyond The Poseidon Adventure.
The new movie will be set in the present day and follow a new set of
characters that attempts to survive after a tidal wave capsizes the S.S.
Poseidon.
SIN CITY
'The Hollywood Reporter' states that Jessica Alba (Honey) is in talks to
star in Sin City for 'Dimension Films', co-written, directed and produced by
Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Frank Miller.
Miller wrote the graphic novel series that has inspired the film, which is
comprised of three intertwining vignettes revolving around a dark set of
characters who call the fictional corrupt town home.
Alba will star in a section with Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, playing
Nancy, a beautiful exotic dancer known as "the sweetheart of Sin City."
Jaime King, Elijah Wood and Brittany Murphy have also been cast.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation, right) has joined the cast of Mission
Impossible 3 for 'Paramount Pictures'. She will portray an ally of Cruise's
Ethan Hunt character.
SUB-MARINER
A rumour is circulating that The Rock is attached to star in another
'Marvel' superhero comic-book adaptation - The Sub-Mariner.
THE VEGA BROTHERS
'Rolling Stone' magazine interviewed writer-director Quentin Tarantino about
Kill Bill Volume 2, and Tarantino also revealed the often rumoured Vega
Brothers could be his next film.
Tarantino: "It's a sequel to both Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, actually,
it's a sequel and it's a prequel. It's The Vega Brothers, played by Michael
Madsen [Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs] and John Travolta [Vincent Vega in Pulp
Fiction]."
"I have been trying to do it for years, and the more time I take, the older
these two guys get. But I've come up with an idea that won't much matter how
much they age... the magic of movies. It's going to be great. It'll be
funny, and these guys are so great, alright, they're going to be like two
oversized mob-men fighting over the last bowl of pasta, that we can't go
wrong.
"It's just going to be John and Michael, and I hope to make this my next
movie. We're laying down the pipework for it now."
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