Tomorrow When the War Began

[TheComicbookKid]

I never heard of this book but I find it odd they'd do this with Red Dawn coming out in the same timeframe.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/stuart-beattie-shows-up-tomorrow-when-the-war-began.php


Stuart Beattie, best known for having his name on the Pirates of the Caribbean posters and soon to be known as the guy who wrote that awful G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra script has set his sights on the popular Australian youth-novel series that begins with Tomorrow, When the War Began. The series, referred to as “The Tomorrow Series” by fans, apparently doesn’t care about proper grammatical tenses and takes place in an Australia that has been besieged by foreign invaders. A young group of teens, lead by the female lead Ellie Linton, become guerrilla fighters and begin an insurgency. Sounds like an Australian Red Dawn! How awesome is that! I am really excited for this property to hit the big screen it will be awesome unless Beattie is an idiot! Oh… Wait. Check this.

“I don’t want to make ‘Red Dawn,’ ” said Beattie, though he admits to liking the movie that MGM is in the process of remaking. “Do you remember when ‘The Full Monty’ and ‘Striptease’ were coming out together? They came out within months as the exact same premise — the parent strips for money so they can see their kid. But completely different. One was all flash and rockin’ body, and the other was completely the opposite, of total insecurity about getting up onstage. We’re more like the ‘Full Monty’ version.”
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Damn it, Stuart Beattie! Damn it! Instead of an awesome epic Australian war film we get the tame, character coming of age story of a war film. Well that could be premature. Maybe this will be awesome. The premise is awesome, that’s for sure. Anywho, the series spans seven novels and the plan right now is to make three of them into movies and then finish the story with a TV series. The books, currently unavailable in the US, will see a Scholastic printing closer to the release date of the film. Beattie adapted the screenplay and will make his directorial debut.


But the cast is pretty hot

 

[8wid]

I've never heard of this book series. But I think from reading some of their summaries, they will make an awesome action film.

 

[Silvermoth]

I read the series in High School and I'm glad it's finally getting an adaption. If the Australian film industry was any good they would have tried something with it years ago. It's a pretty good series.

It's going to be hard to adapt though because we never see the features of the enemy.

 

[Hound55]

Its a series of books and Silvermoth is spot on... If the Australian Film Industry received any kind of decent funding this would have been done long ago.

To Hell!

 

[TheComicbookKid]

Urban Warfare Aussie style.

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-trailer-for-stuart-beatties.html#links

Pretty good. Now I can't wait to see how this compares to the Red Dawn trailer.

Also, no boomerangs? Fail.

 

[Silvermoth]

I was halfway through the trailer when just as it was getting good, my computer crashed! Fuuuuu-

Looks good so far. Looks great in fact.