Galveston

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Warners Lands "Galveston" Disaster Script

By Garth Franklin

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up scribe Daniel Sussman's natural disaster-themed original script “Galveston" reports Risky Biz Blog.
The story revolves around September 8th 1900, the day a Category 4 hurricane destroyed the Texan Gulf Coast city and killed 8,000 people - four times the death toll of Hurricane Katrina.
As the time the booming port town was the biggest in the state and never regained that level of prominence. Polly Johnsen, who is also developing the "Excalibur" remake and an adaptation of David Peace's novel “Occupied City" for Warners, will produce.

 

[GhostPoet]

I think they need to do something different with disaster flicks. How about a jello factory that explodes, trapping workers for 5 months...in order to survive they are forced to eat their way to safety.

 

[Warhammer]

For some reason, when I first saw the title, I thought "Galvatron".

 

[redfirebird2008]

Looking forward to this. Been to Galveston many times while growing up in Baytown, which is 30 minutes east of Houston and around 45 minutes north of Galveston. I wrote a college paper on Isaac's Storm, which was a novelization of the 1900 Galveston storm told from the perspective of the Galveston weather man who made the mistake of telling everyone that there was no need to evacuate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%27s_Storm

 

[GhostPoet]

For some reason, when I first saw the title, I thought "Galvatron".

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