Ron Howard is revving up a blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, the popular Hollywood director who also gave us the controversial movie The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks is said to return as Robert Langdon, this time he finds himself entwined within the power of The Illuminati, history’s most powerful underground society, as he discovers the most valuable secrets of our time.
The Da Vinci Code scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman also wrote the script for Angels and Demons, also returning are the producers of the first installment of the series. Other stars included in the cast are Ewan McGregor who plays a powerful Vatican insider who assists Langdon and Ayelet Zurer who plays the female lead: daughter of a famous murdered physicist who follows the death of her father to uncover the truth behind it.
Angels and Demons will be distributed by Sony/Columbia pictures and is expected to hit cinemas on summer 2009.
June 30th, 2008
Ridley Scott, the man behind Bladerunner, Training Day and Matchstick Men and many other Oscar favorites, will direct The Kind One based on the book by Tom Epperson.
The period flick is set in the 1930’s about an amnesiac who finds himself working for a mobster nicknamed “the kind one”. The character then falls in love with the killer’s girlfriend, a situation that made everything much more complicated. Casey Afleck will play the lead, who also worked with the movie’s producer in his critically-acclaimed role in The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert.
Critics and movie buffs are already anticipating how Ridley Scott will handle a period film. Based on his works, settling on a vintage setting might seem challenging, but the British director is sure to deliver The Kind One on a bed of Academy Awards. The movie will be released and distributed by Warner Brothers set to be out in fall 2009.
June 30th, 2008
DreamWorks bagged the deal for releasing future project The Art of Making Money, a film about the life of Art Williams, the alias of a notorious counterfeiter who printed more than $100 million worth of fake $100 bills.
Phillip Noyce, who directed The Bone Collector and The Saint, is in negotiations to direct the suspense with Frank Baldwin as prospect scriptwriter. The Art of making Money is said to be based on the criminal’s profile on Rolling Stone Magazine written by Jason Kersten, who’s also in works for a book about the counterfeiter’s life as a swindling criminal and his continuous illegal printing even after being caught by the FBI.
Brian Robbins will finance the film and production is expected to start in August.
June 30th, 2008
The 1985 BBC six-hour mini-series Edge of Darkness is said to be adapted into a full-length feature by Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. Mel Gibson will play the lead Ronald Craven, a policeman who unearthed political secrets and systematic corruption in connection with the murder of his activist daughter.
Edge of Darkness is Mel Gibson’s return to the big screen since he last appeared in Signs and We are Soldiers in 2002. Gibson also directed the most controversial movie of all time, The Passion of the Christ, and the ancient suspense Apocalypto.
The movie’s writer William Monahan is said to have been fascinated by the dramatic and surprising nature of the mini-series originally written by Troy Kennedy Martin. Martin, who was clearly influenced by Britain’s political climate during the Thatcher regime, focused on the issues surrounding the nuclear industry. Graham King will produce the movie under his production GK Films.
Edge of Darkness will start shooting in Boston on August.
June 30th, 2008
The shoot of the 1930’s-set blockbuster Public Enemies started last March in Chicago with Michael Mann as director, scriptwriter and producer.
Public Enemies focuses on the pursuit to take down infamous criminal John Dillinger and other public fiends Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd. Famed actor Johnny Depp will play the role of Dillinger and is already setting the world in much anticipation, above is a first look photo of Depp as Dillinger during the early stages of the film’s shoot. Christian Bale will star as Melvin Purvis, an FBI agent, and recent Academy Award best actress winner Marion Cotillard joins the superb ensemble as Billie Frechette.
The drama is based on the 1930’s federal war against prominent and influential law-breakers thus the rise of the country’s first police force. The movie’s script is based on the book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of FBI, 1933-43. Mann wrote the non-fictional script by himself, branching into the tales of other notorious criminals such as Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow or better known as Bonnie and Clyde. Though the story is abundant of criminals, it doesn’t imply connections between them, focusing only on John Dillinger.
Along with Public Enemies, Michael Mann also has a set of other current projects such as spy thriller Edwin A. Salt with Tom Cruise, Empire with Will Smith, and Frankie Machine with Robert DeNiro. Other stars such as Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorf, Lost’s Emilie De Ravin, C.S.I.’s Rory Cochrane and Almost Famous’ Billy Crudup will join the superb ensemble of Public Enemies.
June 30th, 2008
Ron Howard is revving up a blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, the popular Hollywood director who also gave us the controversial movie The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks is said to return as Robert Langdon, this time he finds himself entwined within the power of The Illuminati, history’s most powerful underground society, as he discovers the most valuable secrets of our time.
