I have been percolating the idea for this movie for a long time. At the time I worked on a TV show, purely for the money, and kept thinking about what would be the best way to attack this movie. I wanted to get into its depth instead of just doing a bio pic. When I came up with the idea of using the detective as the “go through” guy to tell the story about George Reeves, I knew I had the breakthrough idea to begin writing
In their first production since Henry Winterstern’s surprise resignation this past March, First Look Pictures announced that Naomi Watts will headline the indies adaptation of Amy Sutherland’s novel about her time at a school for animal training.
Director Bong Joon-ho’s The Host begins
in the year 2000, when a morgue assistant in Korea is ordered to empty bottles of hazardous waste down a drain, even though he the boss who gives the order both know the chemicals will end up in the Han River. Two years later, fishermen are finding small mutated creatures. By 2006, a leviathan sea beast is hanging from the Han River Bridge. Among the people gathering to watch the creature is Gang-du, a good-hearted but lazy slacker who works in a food stand along the bank of the Han. Mayhem erupts moments later when the creature rushes onto land and begins to kill and devour everyone in sight. In the ensuing pandemonium, Gang-su’s young daughter Hyun-seo is grabbed by the creature and carried into the depths of the Han River.