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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Ridley-Scott</title>
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		<title>MONOPOLY in Wonderland!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All that talk of a Wall Street-esque tale of greed and real estate, all that talk from Sir. Ridley Scott that he was aiming to make a movie which carried the "futuristic sheen" of Blade Runner, well it just looks dumb now, doesn't it?

Universal had to tell us eventually just how in God's name they planned to make the popular but tiresome Monopoly board game into a movie and now the pieces are out of the box, well... it's the dumbest fucking movie idea I think I've ever heard, quite frankly.

Basically, the "metaphor for life" idea boils down to ripping-off Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where our lead wakes up after taking a chance card playing Monopoly and finds himself in another reality not unlike the board game, spending Monopoly movie and buying properties, fighting off "The Parker Brothers" and sharing some chuckles with Uncle Pennybags, who is a maître d' at a restaurant.

I promise you, I'm not making this up. If you read the following quotes under this image and find yourself gasping and shaking your head in disbelief at the absurdity that a major Hollywood studio at Universal would pay millions of dollars for this, then don't worry. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley Scott &amp; Leonardo DiCaprio on BRAVE NEW WORLD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Ridley Scott has mentioned Aldous Huxley's highly regarded dystopian novel Brave New World many, many times in interviews during the past year - we actually picked up a story about it ourselves 13 months ago, and now finally an official deal has been put in place to bring this significant science fiction novel to the big screen. 

Risky Business Blog say Universal have setup an adaptation of the novel with Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio producing, both with an eye on directing and starring respectively. 

Apocalypto writer Farhad Safinia has been hired to adapt. Depending on how quickly he can translate the novel (and it's a complex book, so it might take a while), potentially it could be the next movie for DiCaprio and Scott. Both have made lots of deals for future films (Scott's working on Robin Hood, DiCaprio on Chris Nolan's Inception currently) but neither have made a firm deal for anything next - so it could be this. 



For Scott, who it's believed started becoming obsessed with the novel not long after he turned the equally mind-bending Phillip K. Dick novel Blade Runner into a sci-fi classic in 1982, you have to think he will do everything in his power to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sir. Ridley to direct his first ALIEN movie since 1979</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alien]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Should you ever go back, is it ever a wise thing to do?

From the track record of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, you would have to say probably not. Lucas' Star Wars prequels and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull were shocking examples of what happens when you try and reignite the fire of a time in your career when you made absolute perfection.  

In the case of Sly Stallone, you would say he did a decent enough job with Rocky Balboa and Rambo, better than expected, and he clearly still had a chapter to tell from his life that resulted in two good movies. But returning to a franchise after a THIRTY YEAR gap is whole new ballgame, not one I think we've ever had to deal with before. 

Variety have confirmed friday morning that Sir. Ridley Scott will direct a prequel to the Alien franchise he himself started in 1979, with Jon Spaihts handling the screenplay. From the sounds of things, Spaihts pitched an idea to Scott who liked it so much he decided to return to the franchise he has always held interest in the back of his mind to revisit someday.

This won't be Spaihts first ...]]></description>
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		<title>So it&#8217;s back to the ALIEN and PREDATOR well again&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kaminski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:

Just as this was to ready to post, news has flitered through from Bloody Disgusting that Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday) is in talks to direct Rodriguez's script for Predators at 20th Century Fox.

The movie is on the fast track looking for a July 2010 release.
If you hang around nerd circles these days, you might have heard rumors that a remake or sequel to Predator is in the works, and that a prequel to Alien is also in development. If you hang around nerd circles, you’ve probably also already encountered some debate between those who want to hang the money-hungry producers for trying to financially and artistically rape the two franchises and those who just can’t help but be curious about either of the two projects in the off chance that a deft hand at directing causes them to be watchable. But do any of these projects have any chance at existing, firstly, and then secondly, surviving?


Let’s just go over what we are dealing with here. The Alien project, though first rumored to be a remake, is apparently now a prequel film about the origins of the creature. The Predator project was first rumored to be a remake ...]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Macfadyen cast as The Sheriff of Nottingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I have anything against 35 year old British actor Matthew MacFadyen but if this were any other kind of Robin Hood picture, I would be feeling pretty outraged at this point by his casting in this iconic screen role. 



Alan Rickman, whether it was an outrageously over-the-top and ridiculous performance or not, put his heart and soul into one of the true memorable and charasmatic villainy parts in cinema history which saved Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and made that movie seem ten times better than it really was. Rickman went at that part with full gusto and no fear, knowing the material was camp stuff, and he performed it in such a fashion that the campness was both disguised and made fun of.  

MacFadyen, the lead star of Spooks, who bored the world to death with his forgettable performance as Mr. Darcy in Pride &#38; Prejudice (showing that Colin Firth actually did a lot more than simply put on the costume of unsinkable character first time around) has been cast as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Ridley Scott's now filming epic it has been confirmed by his agent over at a fansite.

He shoot his scenes sometime over the next two months.  

But ...]]></description>
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		<title>My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius&#8230;. ROBIN HOOD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today have released the first image of Russell Crowe from the set of Robin Hood, his fifth colloberation with director Ridley Scott and the first since Gladiator nine years ago that brings the duo back into the realm of the summer adventure blockbuster. 



If you've been reading OWF for a while, you're already aware that I think Crowe is about five years past playing this kind of role and Scott missed a trick by not casting him as the older and bitter villain, The Sheriff of Nottingham. Having said that, Crowe has clearly slimed down and the short hair cut does knock a few years off him. 

That haircut and beard combination worked for Gladiator, I'm certain that's what Scott is harpening back to here. Producer Brian Grazer agrees...
"He doesn't have the old Robin Hood tights," says producer Brian Grazer. "He's got armor. He's very medieval. He looks, if anything, more like he did in Gladiator than anything we're used to seeing with Robin Hood."
What surprises me most about the image is the lack of green and how dry the landscape looks. The reason we aren't seeing Robin Hood in cinema's this year is because the movie was delayed from shooting because Scott didn't think ...]]></description>
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		<title>Trades catch up with OWF, William Hurt in ROBIN HOOD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that anyone will particularly care, but I'm celebrating a small victory for Obsessed With Film today. Those of you with magnificent memories will remember back in June, we reported that William Hurt was in talks for a role in Ridley Scott's then titled Robin Hood movie Nottingham. 

Ok granted, we predicted he would be playing King John, one of the expected villains but that was only because we looked at the tradition of the Robin Hood movies and thought he would fit the role well. It was quite an obvious prediction to make. 



As the months went on and Ridley Scott's production kept changing, the trades stopped talking about Hurt as being part of it. But Obsessed With Film didn't, we had a feeling and a hunch that he was still going to be on board. And if you look through our archives, we kept mentioning and shoving down the name of Hurt into everyone's throats. 

And we have been rewarded for that today. The Hollywood Reporter say William Hurt has joined the movie (which I'm of the opinion, he has been attached to for nearly a year now) as the 1st Earl of Pembroke, William Marshall. According to Wiki, he was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Ridley Scott playing the double bluff?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A curious absence from the "final" casting update from Universal regarding Ridley Scott's May 2010 released epic Nottingham, is the Sheriff, a character who for the most recent adaptations of the Hood mythology has usually been the main villain.  



A character too who has been in every plot synopsis (including the official one they have released today, despite claiming no-one is cast in the role) and at one time was said to be depicted by Russell Crowe who was playing both the Sheriff and Robin Hood in a new contemporary twist.

That was until Scott told MTV last month that he thought “It is better to simply have the evolution of a character called Robin Hood, who will come out of a point in the Crusades which is the end.”

And with that The Sheriff was gone. 

But as I say, the absence of The Sheriff  from the casting sheet , despite him being mentioned as a character described as a "despotic sheriff" in the synopsis, is very curious indeed isn't it? Here's the full cast...
Russell Crowe, as Robin Hood.

Cate Blanchett, as Maid Marian.

Oscar Isaac, as King John (looks like William Hurt dropped out sometime in the last year and Scott has gone for his Body of Lies ...]]></description>
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		<title>ROBIN HOOD gets greener</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Universal are betting on a 44 year old Russell Crowe and his GLADIATOR director Ridley Scott to make some serious green again in the Summer blockbuster season with a tale about a middle-aged ROBIN HOOD, which remarkably is being made as an origin story and not beginning with the legend already established, like you might think given Crowe's age and stature as an actor.

ROBIN HOOD has been pushed up from November next year to the pressure cooker of the Summer blockbuster season, opening just 7 days after IRON MAN 2 on May 14th 2010, and just a week before SHREK GOES FOURTH.



I'm not convinced audiences are willing to bank on Crowe being HOOD. Not since CINDERELLA MAN has Crowe looked anything like a summer box office leading man and if he is still in the same shape that he shot STATE OF PLAY in, he's gotta him that gym, and fast. 

But it's not just that. It's the whole image of him with a bow and arrow and wearing the green, playing a good samaritan. Fighting the rich to give to the poor. Can we really buy that from him these days?

His time to have played HOOD passed five years ago, if ...]]></description>
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		<title>Russell Crowe casts friend as Alan-a-Dale in ROBIN HOOD</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/russell-crowe-casts-friend-as-alan-a-dale-in-robin-hood.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brendon Conelly, formerly of the great blog site Film Ick and now taking residence at /film must visit a thousand different websites a day. His reach and grasp for finding news in the most obscure places is just ridiculous. 

Over the weekend he visited the National Pot's Ampersand column and came across the news that Russell Crowe had cast his friend Alan Doyle, the frontman of Canadian folk band Great Big Sea to play Alan-a-Dale in his next movie ROBIN HOOD. 



(he is the one on the right of this picture)

Crowe and Doyle go back about four years when Doyle contributed some music for Crowe's My Hand, My Heart album.
If you’re working on a new house and you have friends who know how to plaster, you hire your friends who can plaster. If you’re doing a movie and you need a dude who can play the lute, you phone your friend who can play the lute.
In classic Hood folklore, Alan-a-Dale was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin's band of outlaws, the "Merry Men." He was the musical narrator of Disney's ROBIN HOOD but has left out of the 1991 live action version ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES. 

He is often the character to be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley Scott&#8217;s NOTTINGHAM falls back into mainstream blockbuster fare</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ridley Scott tells MTV that he is "going back to basics" and has re-titled his epic NOTTINGHAM to ROBIN HOOD. 

He also tells the site that lead Russell Crowe will simply play Hood and NOT The Sheriff of Nottingham as well. Scott has changed his mind and figured out it was dumb to think that Hood and The Sheriff was the same person. 

Or did Universal force a more mainstream project on Scott?
“[Crowe as both Robin and the Sheriff of Nottingham] was an idea so far back, way back when at the time I had this proposed to me, and I read it and thought, ‘I don’t really know what it does for it, but it’s alright’,” Scott recalled of the now-abandoned idea. “It is better to simply have the evolution of a character called Robin Hood, who will come out of a point in the Crusades which is the end.”
Now suddenly with Crowe playing Hood and if Scott finds a top star to play the villain Sheriff, you got a huge tentpole release on your hands. Though Scott hints that the Sheriff will only be a small villain as part of a bigger picture in the film. 

Scott says the character is...
"...less ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cate Blanchett as Maid Marion in NOTTINGHAM?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Replacing Sienna Miller in Ridley Scott's NOTTINGHAM could be Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. 

Mark Strong, who is playing the villainous Guy of Gisbourne in NOTTINGHAM told The Telegraph...
"I think Cate Blanchett is set to take the Maid Marian part...She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it,"
Much classier film?

Is Strong hinting that it was Miller's persona and attitude that lost her the part of Marion earlier this year and not what those gossip rags claimed when they said the love scenes between her and Crowe would look odd because they are on different sides of the weight scale?

Love Blanchett, each and every year she gives a performance which completely shows up her peers. Though in summer blockbuster fare (I thought she was mis-cast in INDIANA JONES IV), we never get to see her best work, but alongside Crowe, I think it will work just fine.

Ridley Scott should direct this movie in the Spring with Russell Crowe leading as both Robin Hood AND The Sheriff of Nottingham.

Brian Helegland (A KNIGHT'S TALE, MYSTIC RIVER) came uop with the story that BULLETPROOF MONK writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris turned into a screenplay.

via ...]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Carnahan to tackle THE A-TEAM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NARC and SMOKIN' ACES director Joe Carnahan will helm THE A-TEAM at 20th Century Fox according to Variety.

He will replace John Singleton (FOUR BROTHERS, SHAFT) who bailed on the project last year because of the constant script re-writes. Since Singleton left, Skip Woods (SWORDFISH, HITMAN) has been re-drafting from scratch but Carnahan has brought on actor and friend Brian Bloom to re-draft further. The new release date of June 20th 2010 put in place (it was originally due out this June).

June 2010 is of course less than a year and a half away so expect Carnahan and Fox to quickly ramp up the pre-production on this project quickly.

To help that will be Tony and Ridley Scott who are on board as producers as is the show's original creator Stephen J. Cannell, just adding that extra bit of manpower to make sure this adaptation gets made this time.

The idea is to use the original premise of the series as the template for an action film.

Of course the biggest irony of all ironies is that Carnahan, like the so far ill fated big movie adaptation of THE A-TEAM has himself seen many projects fail over the years. You could probably count on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike enjoys Ridley Scott&#8217;s BODY OF LIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eclectic master of cinema Ridley Scott returns to the genre of war films, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe leading the latest crop of megastars to be deployed in the Middle East.



Unlike Scott's last foray into the US military with BLACK HAWK DOWN, his newest effort BODY OF LIES abandons the focus on the glory of the individual in the act of war and goes wholeheartedly with the 'how fucked up is this?' interpretation of  the present conflict. Leonardo DiCaprio's secret agent is promoted following a dangerous mission that saw him lose a trusted colleague but gain a whole bunch of useful data relating to a major terrorist network. He is subsequently relocated to Jordan where he becomes embroiled in a dangerous mission, an alliance with the head of the Jordanian secret police, a standard love affair, and a whole bunch of lies and withheld truths that have him questioning who is really in control.

I'm generally of the opinion that films about the present conflict are self-aggrandising at best and at worst irresponsible. They are either blatant propaganda films (LIONS FOR LAMBS), mundane announcements of personal political views (IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, STOP LOSS) or action films using ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley Scott wants to make MONOPOLY as iconic as BLADE RUNNER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Reporter say that Ridley Scott is now firmly attached to direct an adaptation of the Hasbro's popular worldwide board game, MONOPOLY, "with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic BLADE RUNNER".

Hmmm...



Pamela Pettler, the writer of the animated movies MONSTER HOUSE and CORPSE BRIDE, and also the former co-executive producer of the mid 90's show Clueless will scribe. She has the ardous task of coming up with a script for the formulaic real estate board game whose biggest tension usually derives from trying to avoid staying the night on Mayfair (that's the U.K. game anyway) and being charged the rent of an expensive Hotel.

Last year Scott told the L.A. Times about the film...

So it’s really finding the universe for that game. Because clearly it ought to be humorous and for the family — the funny way it brings out, particularly when your uncle suddenly gets Park Lane and — in England, we have Park Lane, Mayfair and Barclay Square, what’s it in America? Park and Madison? So you watch people change. You’re witness to Jekyll and Hyde. Somewhere in that is a hysterically amusing and I think rather exciting film.
You know, when ...]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Strong joins NOTTINGHAM, nearly became Anton Chigurh &amp; what about Bond?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

UPDATED: I've been informed by Simon at Digital Spy that Strong was misquoted. This revised edition of the article now reflects accurately the actor's quotes. 

The versatile Mark Strong for over ten years has been an actor I've greatly admired, he would pop up in all kinds of genre movies, like most British character actors usually do, and completely steal the screen from the bigger "stars" playing opposite them.

But in the last 12 months or so his career has really, really taken off. After playing a big part in BODY OF LIES, director Ridley Scott has hired him again for his next movie NOTTINGHAM where he will play the villainous Guy of Gisbourne.

In the usual Hood folklore, he is the close adviser to the Sheriff of Nottingham who is given the task to aggressively hunt down the outlaw known as Robin Hood. In the much loved Errol Flynn adaptation of the character, Gisbourne is played by the great Basil Rathbone and is the main adversary of Hood but in the 1991 adaptation he is little more than Alan Rickman's man for hire.

Digital Spy carry these quotes from Strong...
"The script is still fluid, but it's essentially the Guy of Gisborne character. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Could werewolves pass the time for Scott till NOTTINGHAM?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exclusive news coming out of Bloody Disgusting today is that Ridley Scott has acquired an original Werewolf based horror screenplay from Ian Jeffers (DEATH SENTENCE... upcoming CASTLEVANIA).



No further details are known, or even if Scott has any interest in directing it but what we do know for sure is that he has a lot of free time between now and late Spring when he is due to work on NOTTINGHAM... his Robin Hood epic that was delayed because of the changing season this August/September.

A small based, quick to shoot werewolf movie might be something that could occupy him for a few months. Scott is not really one to take time off work, who knows... he could be so itching to get back behind the camera that he stumbled across this solid horror script and decided it would be fun to make.

Scott's only real past horror movie was ALIEN and we haven't seen a great Werewolf movie in years. Joe Johnston's remake of Universal's classic THE WOLF MAN, opens in May. ]]></description>
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		<title>Box Office: The image in your head of how cool a DiCaprio/Crowe/Scott movie would be was just LIES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't think it's a stretch to say that we all kinda saw this one coming. Though I haven't seen Ridley Scott's latest movie BODY OF LIES yet, I will say that either him, the marketing at Warner Bros. or maybe both have produced one confusing and boring as hell looking thriller.

I wouldn't have paid my hard earned money to see it. They never really sold a movie to me, just flashy cuts, weird dialogue and images.



At this weekend's U.S. box office, BODY OF LIES took a miserable $12.9 million, well short of it's $70 million project budget which it won't make back now. It's another in a long line of failing movies dealing with Middle-East terror and continues the up and down reception Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott team-ups are getting in this post-GLADIATOR world.

Not winning against a talking dog movie in it's second week and a quick low-grade remake of a Spanish horror film, shows something went severely wrong somewhere.



1

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
$17.5M
$17.5M


2

Quarantine (2008)
$14.2M
$14.2M


3

Body of Lies (2008)
$12.9M
$12.9M


4

Eagle Eye (2008)
$10.9M
$70.4M


5

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
$6.42M
$20.7M


6

The Express (2008)
$4.56M
$4.56M


7

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
$4.54M
$32.3M


8

Appaloosa (2008)
$3.32M
$10.9M


9

The Duchess (2008)
$3.3M
$5.6M


10

Fireproof (2008)
$3.14M
$16.9M


Dan Fellman of Warner Bros. tried to blame the current climate but instead should have been ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley Scott&#8217;s return to sci-fi is revealed&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it won't be BRAVE NEW WORLD, as previously rumored.

Instead Ridley Scott's first science fiction film for over two decades will be THE FOREVER WAR, an adaptation of Joe Haldman's 1974 novel that follows a soldier who battles an enemy in deep space for a few months only to return home to a planet he doesn't recognize twenty years later.

It's said that Scott wanted to originally film the movie straight after his back-to-back classics ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER but rights complications in the mid 80's meant he had to give up on the project and his career took him on a different path.



Calling the project as timely as it was then, Scott told Variety...
"It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ‘The Odyssey’ by way of ‘Blade Runner,’ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.
The novel was set to be adapted by Oscar winning visual effects guru Richard Edlund who worked on RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and he had even raised $400,000 of his own money for the rights to make the project as his directorial debut. But Edlund never took the leap into directing and when Scott came calling six months ago, he was ready to make the deal and ...]]></description>
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		<title>EAGLE EYE writer ready to pitch BLADE RUNNER 2???</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travis Wright, one of the co-writers of the current U.S. No. 1 box office hit EAGLE EYE has told the world during a Q &#38; A session for Creative Screenwriting Magazine that he has been writing, without studio guidance, a sequel to Ridley Scott's classic science fiction film BLADE RUNNER.

And this isn't just a recent thing, Wright has been working on this for years alongside his EAGLE EYE co-scribe John Glenn with the most amazing aspect of it all being that Bud Yorkin, the producer of the original classic is also on board.

Though since the news broke, co-writer Glenn has insisted he is no longer on board and that the trio tried to do the sequel some years back but scrapped the project when they realised how dumb it was to make a sequel to a perfect film. So unless Wright and Yorkin are trying again, the project was dead long before we ever new about it.



Wright had (or could still be?) also been working with pre-visualization teams in an attempt to get as much impressive material for a portfolio so that when it came time to pitch the quite shocking idea of a sequel, they will be able to ...]]></description>
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