(Aw, crap, more vampires?)
In case you haven’t been around lately, Ridley Scott has been attached to Brave New World, an Alien prequel, a Monopoly movie, Nottingham, and probably a couple of other projects I can’t remember. “Ridley Scott” is the hardest-working name drop in showbiz journalism. Anyway, he’s mentioned again today for yet another project. Yadda yadda yadda death-row vampires.
[Gladiator co-writer] John Logan has been set by Fox 2000 to adapt “The Passage,” the Jordan Ainsley vampire novel being developed for Ridley Scott to potentially direct.
In the novel, terminally ill patients become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America, and the government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness. The result is an apocalyptic unleashing of bloodthirsty vampire test subjects that include death row inmates.
Ainsley — pseudonym for PEN Hemingway Award-winning author Justin Cronin — sold the book based on the first 400 pages and an outline, but the film adaptation awaited his completion of the book, which is nearly 1,200 pages. [Variety]
1,200 pages, huh? That’s impressive, because I can barely manage a couple sentences about this. Really, who gives a sh’t.
Collider recently got the chance to talk to Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner, the guy behind the idea to make movies out of boardgames. Put on your helmets, because it’s about to get stupid. (*record scratch*)
“’Candy Land’ is not just about the board game. If you really think about it, it’s an adventure that a kid goes on with his parents when they go across that board.”
F-ck yourself.
“’Monopoly’ has this wonderful history. If you’ll remember, “Monopoly” was literally invented at The [Great] Depression, so that idea, this fiction that’s really there, this non-fiction fiction that’s really there in the game and in the fact that there’s such great roots to this brand and the history of the brand, we bring this to life with a story about families.”
F-ck yourself.
“Well Ridley did have an idea. He grew up on “Monopoly” over in the UK and “Monopoly” is a brand that’s all over the world. But for Ridley, he’s always been a guy that’s created these great big worlds and so for us, “Monopoly” is this great big world that will look like our world but of course there are certain things about it that make it uniquely a “Monopoly” kind-of-world.”
F-ck yourself.
“Oh, I’m not going to tell you quite yet but I will say that it’s everything you could imagine in a “Battleship” movie. It’s really a phenomenal idea.” [via Collider, who also has the video]
The man is a geyser of stupid.
Ridley Scott, who just last week was announced as the director of an Alien prequel, is now said to be adapting everyone’s favorite high school English book Brave New World for Universal. Hollywood Reporter reports that Scott will be “producing with an eye to direct”, while Leonardo DiCaprio will “produce with an eye to star.” Forest Whitaker, meanwhile, is said to be reading the book “with an eye to the floor.”
Much of the timing going forward will depend on the script. Scott is not committed to direct any go projects beyond “Robin Hood,” his period actioner which is shooting in England. DiCaprio is shooting the Christopher Nolan adventure tale “Inception” but does not have a movie lined up after that.
“Brave” has had several go-rounds on television, including a Leonard Nimoy-Peter Gallagher pic on NBC in 1998. But Huxley’s idea-rich novel hasn’t had a shot on the big screen.
Huxley sets his book in a seemingly perfect 26th century world that has achieved harmony by tightly controlling birth, which takes place mainly in laboratories, and outlawing family. The world is populated by a series of five castes, each with its own defined roles.
Characters who figure in to the story are Bernard, a lower-caste member, and Lenina, the woman with whom he is infatuated. DiCaprio is would likely play Bernard, who is persecuted when the leaders of the society find his behavior antisocial.
I’m excited to see what Ridley Scott could do with Brave New World, but not if it means we never get to see his big-screen adaptation of Monopoly. Who will play the thimble? And what of the flying shoe? I WON $10 IN A BEAUTY CONTEST AND I’M DYING TO SPEND IT ON A MONOPOLY MOVIE, GODDAMMIT!
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Well this is big news. It’s been rumored for a while that Fox wanted to do an Alien remake with Ridley Scott producing. But today Variety reports that the plan is actually for a prequel, and Ridley Scott will direct. To put that in perspective, it’s basically like if Robert Plant agreed to sing for a Led Zeppelin cover band. Somehow Ridley Scott went from being the guy who turned down both Alien sequels to the guy who’ll make prequels, movies about Monopoly - whatever studio execs want. (*whispers*) I think he might be a replicant.
The film will be a direct prequel to Scott’s original 1979 film. This leads me to believe that the film will tell the story of the crew of the empty ship that is discovered in the first film. In a 2002 interview, Scott wanted to return “to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created.” [/Film]
You know what are super cool? Sharks. You know what’s not that interesting? The story of how sharks were created. Jesus made the aliens, just like he designed Kirk Cameron’s banana and was the original sharkitecht behind shark week. Origin stories are stupid.
Trailer for the original Alien. Gotta love the out of context cat and the subliminal shot of girl in panties.
Bloody-disgusting is claiming a reliable source who says that a remake of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien is on the way. From 20th Century Fox. Of course.
The plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship. Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch [hee hee!] to get beyond the camera [sic] and bring a new Ripley to the big screen. Who is Carl Rinsch? I’m being told he’s a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake. [B-D]
If the idea that Ridley Scott is producing makes you feel better, keep in mind, Ridley Scott is also making a movie about Monopoly. And it’s Fox. $20 bucks says Ripley is played by Jessica Alba and the alien raps.
