Catching Fire
Both were said to have scored the gigs back in November but now it's official - Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire," "127 Hours") is writing the script and Gary Ross is set to direct "Catching Fire", the sequel to the upcoming sci-fi adaptation "The Hunger Games".
Ross, who also directs 'Hunger', is supervising the writing. The film has already set a November 22nd 2013 release. [Source: Reuters]
The Identity Thief
Director Seth Gordon and his "Horrible Bosses" star Jason Bateman are re-teaming on the comedy "The Identity Thief" at Universal Pictures.
Melissa McCarthy also stars in the film which will have an identity theft element to the storyline (no plot specifics have been revealed). Steve Conrad and Craig Mazin penned the script. [Source: Reuters]
Unmasked
Geoffrey Sax ("Frankie and Alice") is set to direct the psychological thriller "Unmasked" at Nasser Entertainment/Nasser Group North and Studio City Pictures.
Peter Scott Vicaire penned the...
Both were said to have scored the gigs back in November but now it's official - Simon Beaufoy ("Slumdog Millionaire," "127 Hours") is writing the script and Gary Ross is set to direct "Catching Fire", the sequel to the upcoming sci-fi adaptation "The Hunger Games".
Ross, who also directs 'Hunger', is supervising the writing. The film has already set a November 22nd 2013 release. [Source: Reuters]
The Identity Thief
Director Seth Gordon and his "Horrible Bosses" star Jason Bateman are re-teaming on the comedy "The Identity Thief" at Universal Pictures.
Melissa McCarthy also stars in the film which will have an identity theft element to the storyline (no plot specifics have been revealed). Steve Conrad and Craig Mazin penned the script. [Source: Reuters]
Unmasked
Geoffrey Sax ("Frankie and Alice") is set to direct the psychological thriller "Unmasked" at Nasser Entertainment/Nasser Group North and Studio City Pictures.
Peter Scott Vicaire penned the...
- 1/18/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play La Ronde has had quite a legacy. The author initially wrote it as a private play to share amongst his bohemian friends, but it’s gone on to see numerous adaptations across a variety of forms. There’s the 1989 theatrical adaptation by Mihály Kornis, which set the play in communist-era Hungary. There’s Peter Scott-Presland’s gay musical version, which ran at London’s Rosemary Branch Theatre earlier this year. Even the excellent Alan Alda used the format of the play for a story he wrote for M*A*S*H.
Made up of a multitude of interlinking stories, the play is based on the new sexual relationships of a handful of random characters. As is often the case with these things, there is some thread linking all the storylines and characters together: the thread in the original play is a strain of syphilis, and in Alda’s version,...
Made up of a multitude of interlinking stories, the play is based on the new sexual relationships of a handful of random characters. As is often the case with these things, there is some thread linking all the storylines and characters together: the thread in the original play is a strain of syphilis, and in Alda’s version,...
- 10/14/2011
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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