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http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=2306
Date: June 29, 2007
By: El Mayimbe
Source: El Mayimbe
El Mayimbe aqui jodeindo como siempre...
So what is Sam Raimi up to next post Spiderman?
From what I am hearing, Columbia is making him an offer to direct Ken Nolan's THE GRAYS. That is not all, he is also being offered the directing chores of Dreamwork's NO MAN'S LAND.
Two solid sci-fi scripts. Which one will he accept? He may take one or he may turn down both flat.
What is THE GRAYS?
I remember when Nolan received a cool $3 mil for the 75 page treatment of Whitley Strieber's sci-fi novel THE GRAYS.
Story concerns an alien race who essentially function as the "United States of the cosmos" -- running things on Earth as well as on other worlds. Operating in secrecy, the aliens are unwilling to reveal themselves for fear of altering mankind's development.
What is NO MAN'S LAND?
Producer Walter F. Parkes told SCI FI Wire that he and partner Laurie MacDonald are in preproduction on a new SF thriller film titled No Man's Land. Parkes (The Island) described the film as War of the Worlds meets Chinatown. "It's really good, ... because it's kind of a melding of science fiction and noir cop fiction. Just yesterday, [makeup guru] Rick Baker just started working on designs for the aliens." Baker just worked with Parkes and MacDonald on the upcoming horror sequel film The Ring Two.
Les Bohem, who wrote and executive produced SCI FI Channel's original miniseries Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, wrote the script for No Man's Land.
"It takes place in New York City eight years after ... the alien invasion that we lost," Parkes said in an interview. "And it imagines New York City kind of like Paris during the Vichy government [under Nazi occupation during World War II], where we've all sort of just given up. And there's this race of aliens living there that get all the good tables, and the shops are kind of collaborating. And there's an incipient underground movement to take the Earth back."
Parkes added: "The main character is a cop who lost his wife when the aliens destroyed London, and so he's given up trying. Just trying to keep his [eye] on his eight square blocks of Manhattan, his beat. And there's a murder there, and it seems to be the murder of a human by a 'blue' [an alien]. And he doesn't believe [it]. He thinks there's something fishy, and in finding the truth of that murder, [he] inadvertently reignites the rebellion, which will eventually
take the Earth back."
Stay tuned as more develops...
HASTA EL PROXIMO CAPITULO...
YO SOY EL MAYIMBE!
Date: June 29, 2007
By: El Mayimbe
Source: El Mayimbe
El Mayimbe aqui jodeindo como siempre...
So what is Sam Raimi up to next post Spiderman?
From what I am hearing, Columbia is making him an offer to direct Ken Nolan's THE GRAYS. That is not all, he is also being offered the directing chores of Dreamwork's NO MAN'S LAND.
Two solid sci-fi scripts. Which one will he accept? He may take one or he may turn down both flat.
What is THE GRAYS?
I remember when Nolan received a cool $3 mil for the 75 page treatment of Whitley Strieber's sci-fi novel THE GRAYS.
Story concerns an alien race who essentially function as the "United States of the cosmos" -- running things on Earth as well as on other worlds. Operating in secrecy, the aliens are unwilling to reveal themselves for fear of altering mankind's development.
What is NO MAN'S LAND?
Producer Walter F. Parkes told SCI FI Wire that he and partner Laurie MacDonald are in preproduction on a new SF thriller film titled No Man's Land. Parkes (The Island) described the film as War of the Worlds meets Chinatown. "It's really good, ... because it's kind of a melding of science fiction and noir cop fiction. Just yesterday, [makeup guru] Rick Baker just started working on designs for the aliens." Baker just worked with Parkes and MacDonald on the upcoming horror sequel film The Ring Two.
Les Bohem, who wrote and executive produced SCI FI Channel's original miniseries Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, wrote the script for No Man's Land.
"It takes place in New York City eight years after ... the alien invasion that we lost," Parkes said in an interview. "And it imagines New York City kind of like Paris during the Vichy government [under Nazi occupation during World War II], where we've all sort of just given up. And there's this race of aliens living there that get all the good tables, and the shops are kind of collaborating. And there's an incipient underground movement to take the Earth back."
Parkes added: "The main character is a cop who lost his wife when the aliens destroyed London, and so he's given up trying. Just trying to keep his [eye] on his eight square blocks of Manhattan, his beat. And there's a murder there, and it seems to be the murder of a human by a 'blue' [an alien]. And he doesn't believe [it]. He thinks there's something fishy, and in finding the truth of that murder, [he] inadvertently reignites the rebellion, which will eventually
take the Earth back."
Stay tuned as more develops...
HASTA EL PROXIMO CAPITULO...
YO SOY EL MAYIMBE!
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