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		<title>I AM LEGEND writer and director tackle THE WORLD WITHOUT US!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Protosevich and Francis Lawrence, the writing and directing team behind Warner Bros. adaptation of I Am Legend, a novel about the last man on Earth are set to go one better at 20th Century Fox. 

They are making a movie about the Earth if man were suddenly wiped out, not even leaving vampires behind, though we expect a Will Smith lead or a bunch of characters to be present as our protagonists. Otherwise it would be a pretty boring movie, or a documentary and this is neither.

The studio have bought the rights to journalist Alan Wiesman's non-fiction ecology novel The World Without Us, which depicted the future history of Earth if all of mankind was gone tomorrow. Fox have the idea of turning it into a 2 hour Hollywood feature.. ala The Day After Tomorrow. 




The Hollywood Reporter say...
The book explored how edifices and houses would deteriorate, how long and which man-made objects would linger and last, the environmental impact nuclear waste and other pollutants would have left unchecked and how nature would spread over built environments. 


According to wiki...
Weisman concludes that residential neighborhoods would become forests within 500 years, and that radioactive waste, bronze statues, plastics, and Mount Rushmore would be among the longest lasting evidence of human ...]]></description>
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		<title>Will Smith says OLDBODY remake, is not a remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film School Rejects got a rare chance this week to speak to Will Smith out promoting his new movie SEVEN POUNDS where of course the topic of discussion soon turned to the recently announced Hollywood remake of the Korean 2003 classic movie OLDBOY which we know now will be written by Mark Protosevich (I AM LEGEND) and directed by Steven Spielberg.

Smith says it's definitely happening and that it's not their intention to remake the Chan-wook Park movie but are instead looking to adapt the original Japanese manga graphic novels by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya novels for screen, just like Park did when he first stumbled across them.
We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material. There’s the original comics of ‘Oldboy’ that they made the first film from. And that’s what we’re working from, not an adaptation of the film…,” said Smith.


As I've never read the original source material, I have taken the top google entry for "oldboy manga review", a piece written by Floating Sakura at Manga Jouhou...
In comparing the manga with the movie, I see the two are actually quite different, although the general plot line is the same. To be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Writer of I AM LEGEND to reunite with Will Smith on OLDBOY remake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so the Summer tentpole blockbuster plans for the OLDBOY remake continues. The Hollywood Reporter say Mark Protosevich (I AM LEGEND, POSEIDON) is in talks with Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks to come up with a screenplay for the redo of the 2003 Chan-wook Park Korean classic.

As we mentioned two weeks ago, Will Smith is attached to lead and produce with Spielberg directing. All signs pointed towards a July 4th, watered down blockbuster and hiring the man who wrote the words which helped Smith make $584 million for Warner Bros. last year with I AM LEGEND, is further sad evidence of this.



Dreamworks are still trying to hatch a deal with Mandate who own the rights to the original film, who quite understandably are wanting to get a good deal out of this because a Smith/Spielberg combination should be huge.

Now I was in favour of I AM LEGEND, I thought it was a pretty good adaptation. It was only about 40% of the power of the original novel but the heart of it was still there and if it was an original screenplay, I think more people would have dug it.

What it did show was that Protovosich can deliver a studio friendly ...]]></description>
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