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ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
July 23rd, 2008, LOS ANGELES – Peter Berg, fresh off his blockbuster hit, Hancock, is attached to produce and develop to direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars, based on the Radical Publishing 5 issue miniseries of the same title, written by Steve Moore. Hercules will be a co-production of Spyglass Entertainment, Berg's Film 44 and Radical Pictures. Ryan Condal, recently hired to adapt Warren Ellis' graphic...
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KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Producer Nick Wechsler has optioned screen rights to "Throttle," a 60-page novella written by father-son authors Stephen King and Joe Hill. The protags in the King-Hill novella are father-son members of a motorcycle gang that's chased through the desert by an 18-wheel tanker truck.The novella will be published in 2009 in "He Is Legend," an anthology dedicated to Richard Matheson, author of "I Am Legend."....
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Filed under: Action , Horror , Thrillers , Deals , Newsstand Is there a Joe Hill story that isn't optioned right now? I think even the ones unfinished on his laptop are optioned. Combine his name with that of his famous father, Stephen King, and it probably doesn't even have to have more than an opening sentence. According to Variety , Throttle , the novella Hill co-authored with King, has been optioned...
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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Producer Nick Wechsler has optioned screen rights to "Throttle," a 60-page novella written by father-son authors Stephen King and Joe Hill, reports Variety .
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Film News: King-Hill horror novella headed to bigscreen -- Producer Nick Wechsler has optioned screen rights to "Throttle," a 60-page novella written by father-son authors Stephen King and Joe Hill.
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io9 (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
United Nations weapon inspectors have found way more than they bargained for during a routine inspection. That may sound like the beginning of a "torn from headlines" plot from your average episode... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Deals , Scripts , Politics I know some of you are super-jazzed about political content and political film, so how about a good, healthy dose of politics in a science fiction wonderland? In August of last year , producers Gianni Nunnari and Nick Wechsler optioned Warren Ellis' comic mini-series/graphic novel Ocean . Now, The Hollywood Reporter posts that new writer Ryan...
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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Warner Bros. has hired newcomer Ryan Condal to adapt Ocean, the science-fiction comic by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse. The miniseries, which was released in 2004-2005 by DC’s Wildstorm imprint, is set “one hundred years from now,” when a U.N. weapons inspector discovers thousands of coffins and a weapon of mass destruction beneath the ice of [...]
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Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Bookninja � Blog Archive � On (filming) The Road “The Road” began filming in late February, mostly in and around Pittsburgh, with a later stop in New Orleans and a postproduction visit planned to Mount St. Helens. The producers chose Pennsylvania, one of them, Nick Wechsler, explained, because it’s one of the many states that give tax breaks and rebates to film companies and, not incidentally, because...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
For the crew of the movie version of "The Road," set to open in November, filming involved an upending of the usual rules of making a movie on location.
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
For their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, reaching screens in November, director John Hillcoat and stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee take the bond between father and son to the end of the world -- literally.
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
In another example of the ties between talent agencies and production financing, Screen Capital Intl. and William Morris Agency on Saturday announced the creation of a $100 million film-financing company that will be used to fund up to 50 movies over the next five years. Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson's William Morris Independent will rep the [...]
