JUSTICE LEAGUE Postponed
January 16, 2008 Rich Drees Movie News
Up until just a few days ago it seemed as if Warner Brothers was all set to go ahead with production on their superhero team up film Justice League, with last week's announcement that Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop set to produce the costumes for the film's heroes being the latest foward movement on the project.
However, Variety editor Anne Thompson is reporting that Warners has let the contract options expire on the cast that director George Miller had assembled. Thompson states that it was felt that the script wasn't ready and with no end to the current Writers Guild strike in sight to allow for quick rewrites, there was no way that the film would be able to get through production in time for its projected Summer 2009 release.
The studio and Miller still want to go ahead with the film. But any plans will have to stay on hold until the strike is resolved.
Live Action AKIRA Is Dead
June 14, 2009 Rich Drees Comics And Film
Well, here's a story of a project that has stalled out in Developmen Hell that I won't shed any tears over. The live action-version of Katsuhiro Otomo's classic anime feature Akira being developed by Leonard [click for more]
PREACHER Gets A Writer
January 22, 2009 Rich Drees Comics And Film, Movie News
Screenwriter John August has confirmed that he jas been hired by Sony Pictures to script Preacher, an adaptation of the Vertigo comic book for director Sam Mendes. August mentioned it on his blog, though he [click for more]
Rodriguez Offered X-MEN spinoff DEADPOOL
Not that he has enough in development projects of his own to choose from, Robert Rodriguez has been offered the director's chair for Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men spinoff Deadpool. According to Playlist, who broke the [click for more]