Ridley Scott Going Biblical

It seems like Ridley Scott's wish list of projects just keeps going and going, but earlier this week the director revealed yet another film he has lined up in his queue, and this time it's .

"I've got something else in the works. I'm already doing it. It's called Moses," Scott told Esquire in a recent interview. "I probably shouldn't have let that slip out. I'm not supposed to say anything... It's definitely in the cards, though. What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. It's things like his relationship with Ramses [II, the pharaoh]. I honestly wasn't paying attention in school when I was told the story of Moses. Some of the details of his life are extraordinary."

The story of Moses has been a hot ticket item at the studios lately. Both Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox have laid claim to their own projects centered on the ancient prophet. Last we heard, Spielberg was attached to direct Gods and Kings for Warners, so we can only assume for now that Scott was referring to the Moses pic over at Fox.

In the meantime, the filmmaker has plenty more to work on, including his next film The Counselor.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/05/ridley-scott-going-biblical

Original Blade Runner Writer on Sequel

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Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote Blade Runner, is in talks to reteam with director Ridley Scott for the planned sequel to the sci-fi classic. Specifically, according to a press release from producers Alcon Entertainment, the idea is "to develop the idea for the original screenplay" for the follow-up.

Additionally, it has now been confirmed that the film will in fact be a sequel to the original tale of the Replicant-hunting, down-on-his-luck future cop played by Harrison Ford. "The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded," we're told. So does that mean Ford will be back?

Fancher worked on the original Blade Runner before Scott was even onboard, and the way the story goes, creative differences led to Scott and producer Michael Deeley dumping the scribe and hiring David Peoples to rewrite him. Obviously those creative differences have long since abated, but you can read about the whole bloody affair in the great book Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner.

Despite today's announcement, we still have no clear idea on this production's timeline, though obviously it's still very early days.

Update: In a chat with The Daily Beast, Scott revealed the following: "I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist." Does that mean she'll be the protagonist? Time will tell.

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/original-blade-runner-writer-on-sequel

Disney's New Peter Pan

Disney will soon be adapting Peter and the Starcatchers, a new Peter Pan story based on the best-selling children's book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. The studio has hired Jesse Wigutow (The Osterman Weekend) to pen the screenplay.

The book was recently adapted into a Broadway play, which has already turned out to be a huge hit -- it was nominated for nine Tony Awards earlier this month. So it's no surprise that Disney has decided to fast-track a feature film. And since Barry and Pearson are gearing up to write more books set in the same universe, it's likely the movie will have franchise potential.

No word yet on a director or production start date.

Via ComingSoon.net

Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/18/disneys-new-peter-pan

Will Prometheus be Rated R?

The official word has come down on the rating for Ridley Scott's forthcoming sci-fi epic Prometheus, which will be rated "R."

This, of course, is cool for fanboys who wanted a darker, scarier quasi-Alien prequel than a possible PG-13 would have offered.




But as the
L.A. Times points out, the "R" rating could also limit the pricey Fox film's commercial viability during the all-important summer movie season.


Source : http://movies.ign.com/articles/122/1224489p1.html