Jan
Regular
Here's what JMS had to say at the convention today about what he's up to lately:
It's now official: JMS is adapting the Lensman saga for Ron Howard and they're looking at possibly making it a three film series.
He's also rewritten an entire script for the Wachowski brothers in 60 hours. (He didn't mention the name but this must be "Ninja Assassin").
He's sold a spec script to Tom Cruise.
He's sold a spec script to Universal called "Flickering Light".
There's another project for Wolfgang Peterson called "The Grays" based on the books by Whitley Strieber.
One of the announcements he hopes to make in the next few weeks is a for a feature film that's "near and dear to the heart of every person in the room".
Regarding more Lost Tales, at the moment two divisions of WB seem to be 'discussing' wanting a feature film or more Lost Tales but haven't come to an agreement and haven't gotten to the point of guaranteeing JMS total creative control in the case of a feature film. The budget for the first disk was only 2 million dollars.
He's currently adapting "Midnight Nation" as a screenplay and expects to have it ready around August or September.
Another big producer is interested in "Dream Police" and "Rising Stars".
He's got two projects coming from Image. One I missed the title of, the other is called "Final Justice". They'll be coming from Image probably in the fall.
I asked his reaction to "Changeling" being chosen to compete at the Cannes Film Festival and he brought everybody up to speed on that. He's flying out next Sunday to be there for the competition and seems stunned and pleased just at the honor of the film being chosen but doesn't have any idea how it'll do.
It was great to finally meet Lyta after all these years, too. <waves>
It's now official: JMS is adapting the Lensman saga for Ron Howard and they're looking at possibly making it a three film series.
He's also rewritten an entire script for the Wachowski brothers in 60 hours. (He didn't mention the name but this must be "Ninja Assassin").
He's sold a spec script to Tom Cruise.
He's sold a spec script to Universal called "Flickering Light".
There's another project for Wolfgang Peterson called "The Grays" based on the books by Whitley Strieber.
One of the announcements he hopes to make in the next few weeks is a for a feature film that's "near and dear to the heart of every person in the room".
Regarding more Lost Tales, at the moment two divisions of WB seem to be 'discussing' wanting a feature film or more Lost Tales but haven't come to an agreement and haven't gotten to the point of guaranteeing JMS total creative control in the case of a feature film. The budget for the first disk was only 2 million dollars.
He's currently adapting "Midnight Nation" as a screenplay and expects to have it ready around August or September.
Another big producer is interested in "Dream Police" and "Rising Stars".
He's got two projects coming from Image. One I missed the title of, the other is called "Final Justice". They'll be coming from Image probably in the fall.
I asked his reaction to "Changeling" being chosen to compete at the Cannes Film Festival and he brought everybody up to speed on that. He's flying out next Sunday to be there for the competition and seems stunned and pleased just at the honor of the film being chosen but doesn't have any idea how it'll do.
It was great to finally meet Lyta after all these years, too. <waves>
