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1/21/2005
An On Set Visit From
Quint At
Ain't
It Cool News. A Very Cool Article. This Is A Great Site!
"Peter
Jackson is making a modern day two hundred million
dollar Ray Harryhausen film. The much publicized dinos
are just the tip of the iceberg. There are monsters
and creatures invented for this movie that'll drive
you bats**t insane... in a good way."
Quint-
Ain't It Cool News!
Lewman From
The
Bastards Have Landed "The
Official Peter Jackson Fan Club" Sent This To Us.
A Cartoon By Irish Cartoonist Dan Gaynor.
Peter Fills Us In On What's Been Goin' On And What To
Expect Over At KIK.
1/18/2005
Two Sites That
Need You To Visit. I Highly Recommend Them.
Lee's Site Is Dedicated To 33 And Kingdom Kong Is The
Best 76 Site Out There.
January
18, 2005
Peter Jackson
and partner Fran Walsh have put up their own money
to option film rights to the Alice Sebold novel
The Lovely Bones in an unusual development plan
that will exclude studio financing until the script
is finished, says Variety.
Rights were acquired from FilmFour, the
movie
arm of British broadcaster Channel 4, which will
still serve as Jackson and Walsh's partner in
developing the project. The project will be next for
Jackson after he completes Universal's
King Kong.
Jackson, Walsh and Philippa Boyens will begin next
January adapting the book as a spec script for a
movie that likely won't be ready for release until
fall 2007.
The trade adds that Jackson's manager Ken Kamins and
FilmFour won't entertain distribution or financing
possibilities until the script is done and the movie
is budgeted, a process that should be complete
around May 2006.
Here's how the book's publisher describes the story:
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she
is already in heaven. This was before milk carton
photos and public service announcements, she tells
us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously
disappeared, people still believed these things
didn't happen.
In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious
teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her
death, and her own adjustment to the strange new
place she finds herself. (It looks a lot like her
school playground, with the good kind of swingset.)
With love, longing, and a growing understanding,
Susie watches her family as they cope with their
grief--her father embarks on a search for the
killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing
daring, her little brother builds a fort in her
honor--and begin the difficult process of healing.
Heaven "is cleverly not described that well in the
book, because Alice wanted your imagination to do
the work and decide what Susie's heaven looks and
feels like," Jackson said. "We will have to show
something on film. It has to be somehow ethereal and
emotional, but it can't be hokey."
1/17/2005
Jackson: Remaking 'King Kong' Is a Dream
LOS
ANGELES - Director Peter Jackson's first attempt to remake "King
Kong" featured an Empire State Building constructed out of
cardboard and a Manhattan skyline painted on an old bedsheet. It
was an amateur effort, but Jackson was only 13 at the time. He
has a bigger budget now, at 43.The $150 million remake now in
production is a respectful tribute to the 1933 original. Jackson
approached Fay Wray, who played Ann in the first film, about
making a cameo, but she died before it was possible.
Jackson, who directed "The Lord of the
Rings" trilogy, said remaking "King Kong" has been a lifelong
obsession.
The $150 million remake now in
production is a respectful tribute to the 1933 original. Jackson
approached Fay Wray, who played Ann in the first film, about
making a cameo, but she died before it was possible.
"Obviously, there's a lot of criticism
and apprehension about remaking any film, and it has the
potential for pitfalls that are greater than 'The Lord of the
Rings,'" he told the Los Angeles Times during a short break on
the "King Kong" set. "But it's a dream come true. That's the
reality of it."
Associated Press.
LA
Times Has A Kick Ass Article And These Great Conceptual Art
Designs. Click Here To Read The
Article.
1/16/2005
Speaking of Adrien Brody.......
Creepy The Jacket
Trailer and Posters
Source:
Warner
Independent Pictures
January
15, 2005
On
March 4, Warner Independent Pictures will release
director John Maybury's new thriller
The Jacket,
starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris
Kristofferson, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. We have
your first look at the mindbending
trailer
and two
posters
featuring Brody and Knightley.
The film centers on a military veteran who returns
to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of
amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in
an asylum, a well-meaning doctor puts him on a heavy
course of experimental drugs, restrains him in a
jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body
drawer of the basement morgue. The process sends him
on a journey into the future, where he can foresee
his death (but not who did it or how) in four day's
time. Now the only question that matters is: can the
woman he meets in the future save him?
View the posters in
full by clicking them below. To watch the trailer,
click
here!
1/10/2005
Brody
To Wrestle Monsters? So Says
USA Today
Adrien Brody flew
in from the New Zealand set of King Kong, where he said
he had been "wrestling monsters underwater," to present the
Rising Star Award to The Village co-star Bryce Dallas
Howard.
1/8/2005
First Official Still Of Jack Black
As Carl Denham
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