Tag: books
Why I’m Excited: Mortal Engines
Like most fans, I’ve followed, Peter Jackson since he made the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. It was an audacious plan, to say the least: three films shot together with a scope that, while now commonplace, was unparalleled 18 years ago. The rest, as they say, was history, with Return of th...
Read MoreChris Pratt in Talks to Lead The Saint
Chris Pratt is about to follow in the footsteps of James Bond. Deadline exclusively reports that the actor is in early talks to headline a new film adaption of The Saint, the TV series based on the novels by Leslie Charteris featuring Simon Templar, the iconic character made famous by Roger Moore. I...
Read MoreArtemis Fowl Trailer Sneaks Online
While everyone is waiting on bated breath for the Avengers 4 trailer, Disney is pushing a different kind of literary adaptation as the Artemis Fowl trailer released earlier today. Based on the popular series of children’s novels written by Eoin Colfer – in particular the first two books – Arte...
Read MoreThe Great Gatsby Origin Story Coming to Youtube
It looks like we’re about to see how Gatsby got the party started. Deadline reports that Stampede Ventures has put in development a project called Gatz, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The concept of this show is based on an academic theory that Fitzgerald had been writing about...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: About a Boy (2002)
Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, the home of lost or underappreciated TV and movies. In keeping with our theme of Christmas movies, this week we’ll be taking a look at 2002’s About a Boy. This is technically bending the rules a little; this film has Christmas in it, and, in fact, Christma...
Read MoreEd Burns to Produce The Progeny for CW
Indie titan Ed Burns is getting back into the television business. Deadline reports that Burns and his company Marlboro Road Gang Productions are teaming with Radar pictures to produce an adaption of the Tosca Lee novel The Progeny. The thriller centers on an amnesiac girl who discovers she is the ...
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