The classic 1935 Best Picture Academy Award nominated swashbuckler CAPTAIN BLOOD, a rip roaring seafaring adventure film that made stars out of Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and Olivia De Havilland has moved closer to a remake at Warner Bros.
Variety say the studio have hired John Brownlow, the writer of Gwyneth Paltrow’s 2003 biopic SLYVIA to scribe with Phillip Noyce (CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, CATCH A FIRE) still eyeing the project as a directing vehicle.
The original followed Flynn as a doctor wrongly sentenced to slavery in the Caribbean, where he and his comrades become avenging pirates. Michael Curtiz directed the movie and would soon make the legendary ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD with Flynn.
Here’s hoping Noyce makes a “dirty” pirate movie without the thrills, you certainly can’t match any of those Flynn movies for pure escapism. I’m not so pissed at this remake, most cinema goers won’t be aware of this film and as a huge Pirate movie junkie, I’m just happy to see that PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN isn’t all I’m going to be fed right now.
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Well, I hope he does not mind being beaten to it!!!
The Adventures of Michael Fane has already been published by Legend Press – I have written to Warners, byt no reply as yet!
Just an update. My book has reached page one on Google News.
http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=Michael+Fane&btnG=Search+News&ned=uk&hl=en
Still no reply from Warners! Oh humm