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Hardwicke and Hirsch take Revenge with Overture Films’ ‘Hamlet’
Up there with R&J, Hamlet is probably the most referenced/re-interpreted Shakespeare play for the big screen. Just when you think all angles have been covered (Hamlet 2's version was fairly original), Catherine Hardwicke, Emile Hirsch, The Jinks/Cohen Company and Overture Films have got another version coming.
Lionsgate sets up Haggis for the ‘Next Three Days’
Lionsgate have set Haggis to work on The Next Three Days first, by doing the script transfer and then by lensing sometime in August.
Richard Shepard is ‘Brooklyn’ Bound
Richard Shepard is set to continue working in awkward comedy formulas, after The Matador and The Hunting Party he'll be taking on a remake of an Israeli film for Overture films.
Bardem in Stone’s Money Never Speaks?
If Nikki "toldja!" Finke's all inclusive piece on Wall Street II is accurate it would mean that: a. lensing begins on August 10th, b. release date is pegged for February 2010, c. the antagonist is Javier Bardem (a surprise since the actor is extremely selective these days) and d. the plot which until now had Douglas's Gekko return to the business world after an exemplary prison sentence, now includes details on the cast of other characters.
Field Adapting Teran’s ‘Creed of Violence’
Field was reported to be adapting a Western-like project and lensing Cormac McCarthy's 1840's set Blood Meridian, but instead is poised to transfer Boston Teran's 1910 set The Creed of Violence into screenplay format and then, according to his track record and Variety's Michael Fleming, possibly direct.
