ARGONAUTS
Plot: a group of mercenary adventurers hired by a wealthy
businessman to travel via a strange portal to another realm. There
the team found themselves standing in Mount Olympus, the fabled home
of the Greek gods -- but instead of meeting legendary beings such as
Zeus, Athena or Hera, the realm was abandoned for an unknown reason.
In the ages since the gods fled Olympus, the mythological creatures
from the Greek legends, such as the Kraken, Minotaur, Cyclops and
Medusa, had reclaimed the realm.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: Alan McElroy (Spawn), Simon Kinberg & Michael Cooney.
Studio: Dreamworks
Producers: Dreamworks
Budget:
Status: Development Hell
Release Date: Unknown
Buzz: Dreamworks has had this project in development for more than
five years. As of 10/27/04 they have hired Michael Cooney to pen
another version of the script.
ASYLUM (Warner pulled plug on this one)
Plot: To feature both Batman & Superman
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Release Date: ?
Status: DEAD.
Buzz: Project is dead. Warner Bros. is afraid to pit the Superheroes
against each other on the big screen. The Batman: Year One project
may be back on again.
AUSTIN POWERS 4:
Plot: Unknown. Likely to again have a lot
of cameos.
Players: Mike Myers,
Director: Jay Roach
Script: Roach & Myers
Status: In the Scripting Stages only.
Studio:
Release Date: Summer 2004/5
Buzz: Mike Myers will be getting a shit-load of cash for this one.
Plot: Unknown. Likely to again have a lot of cameos.
Players: Mike Myers,
Director: Jay Roach
Script: Roach & Myers
Status: In the Scripting Stages only.
Studio:
Release Date: Summer 2004/5
Buzz: Mike Myers will be getting a shit-load of cash for this one. As
of 11.21.04 there is no script or storyline. Myers doesn't appear to
be working on this project.
BABYLON 5: The Memory of Shadows (DEAD)
Plot: Based on syndicated series.
Players: TBD (Hopefully to include the original cast)
Director: Steven Beck (ghost ship)
Studio: Winchester Films & Warner Bros.
Scribe: J. Michael Stracynski
Status: Production slated for April 2005 in the UK.
Release Date: 2006, summer.
Budget: TBD (likely $40 to $60 million)
Buzz: Everyone was thinking new series or mini-series from Warner
Bros. This could be good news. Many of the cast original cast
members are much older now and fans could expect an influx of
younger actors.
BACK UP:
Plot: To be a Sci-Fi Thriller.
Players: Nicolas Cage
Director:
Studio: Castle Rock
Scribe: Tom Vaughan pinned the spec script.
Status: In development.
Buzz: Being described as a science fiction thriller
described as Memento meets
Face/Off
BAD BOYS 3
Plot: The Bad Boys attempt to kick ass mixing in comedy and bullets.
Players: Will Smith & Martin Lawrence
Director: Michael Bay
Studio: Jerry Bruckheimer Productions, Columbia Pictures
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer
Budget: $100+ million
Status: Stagnant
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: No one really went to see the sequel and the video sales were
not so great either. Unlikely the studio will spend the $100+
Million on the sequel.
THE BAD GUY
Plot: The Bad Guy is set in a universe in which genetically
engineered superheroes have eliminated crime and become arrogant and
bored, leaving a lone mortal to take them on.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Studio: Paramount
Scribe: David Hayter (the X-Men & the Hulk) is supervising comic
creators Jason Harris and Zack Morrissette as they write the script.
Studio: Paramount & Josephson Entertainment.
Buzz: Paramount is nego. for the rights to the comic book.
BAG OF BONES
Plot: The movie tells the story of Mike Noonan, a novelist who is
helped by the spirit of his dead wife to exorcise the spirit of a
murder victim who has killed several children and now has her eyes
on an innocent 3-year-old.
Players: TBD
Director: Peter Care
Script: David Velos from Stephen Kings novel.
Studio: MGM
Producer: Bruce Willis 'Cheyenne Enterprises'
Status: Development
Release Date: 2004/2005
Buzz:
BASTARDS
Plot: World War II Epic
Players: Arnold Schwartzenegger, Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis, Bo
Svenson, James Marsden & Adam Sandler
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Script: Tarantino
Producer:
Studio: TBD
Budget: $100 +
Release Date: 2006
Status: Scripting Phase
Buzz: Tarantino has planned this movie since 1998 to bring these
three one time biggies to the screen in one film. He has no studio
or script just yet.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (still rumored)
Plot: Based on the original characters from the first series.
Players: Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch, Herb Jefferson Jr.,
Director:
Script: Glenn A Larson
Producers: Glenn A Larson
Studio: Universal
Budget: $30 to $40 million
Stutus:
Release Date: 2007/2008
Buzz: Glenn Larson has what he calls good ideas for a feature film.
Some of the original stars are interested in returning.
BATMAN
(Batman: Intimidation)
plot: Will be based on the Dark Knight: Year one comic book
series. An emotionally scarred twenty-something Bruce Wayne begins
his war on crime in Gotham City,
Players: Christian Bale (Batman), Michael Caine (Alfred), Katie
Holmes, Chris Cooper (C. Gordon), Elle Fanning, Noah Emmerich, Liam
Neeson and Morgan Freeman.
Director: Chris Nolan
Script: Chris Nolan
Status: Production
Release Date: summer of 2k5
Studio: Warner Brothers.
Inside Buzz: Casting is nearly complete, and filming should
begin shortly.
BATMAN vs SUPERMAN aka 'ASYLUM' (apparently
dead)
Plot: Batman and Superman begin as allies but eventually battle each
other. "They both go through some kind of a crisis,"
Petersen said to The Reporter. "Superman has an
unwavering belief in what is right and wrong and it's just not that
simple anymore in today's world, while Batman is on a path of
self-destruction. He reacts to an act of incredible violence in a
way that almost puts him over the edge." Both Gotham City and
Metropolis will be seen in the film.
Players: Likely to be Colin Ferrell and Jude Law (as Batman &
Superman respectively)
Director: Wolfgang Peterson (direct and produce)
Status: In Fast Development
Release Date: 2004
Studio: Warner Brothers
Buzz: As of 9.18.02 Warner Brothers has apparently killed this
project.
BATTLEFIELD EARTH 2 (DEAD)
plot: based on the novel by L. Ron Hubbard.
players: John Travolta and Barry Pepper, Forrest Whitaker, Kelly
Preston.
director: Roger Christian
Script: TBD
status: DEAD.
Release Date: TBD
Latest Rumor: Project appears dead. This is a good thing.
BEAUTIFUL KILLER
Plot: a film based on an issue of Black Bull Comics inkings. The
focus is a young girl driven to seek vengeance after her parents are
killed because of their involvement in the espionage game.
Players: Jessica Alba (Dark Angel)
Director: TBD
Scribe: TBD
Studio: ???
Producers: ???
Status: In Fast Development
Release Date: 2004/5
Buzz: Producers hope to be ready at Jessica Alba's next open slot.
BEDBUGS
Plot: The
story will be set in a small town where a new species of bug is
discovered. The little bugger only comes out at night and seeks the
comfort of a warm host. Once it finds such as person it burrows
inside them, which eventually kills the host.
Players:
Director:
Scribe:
Studio: New Line Cinema
Producers: Contrafilms
Status: Develpment
Release Date:
Buzz: Story from Carter Burwell.
BELOW
Plot: During WW2, a US submarine crew is sent to rescue the
survivors of a British hospital ship. They soon become trapped by
Nazi U-boats circling above whilst something big, dangerous and
mysterious awaits below.
Players: Bruce Greenwood, Scott Foley, and Olivia Williams
Director: David Twohy (Pitch Black)
Status: ????
Release Date: 2002
Buzz: This one sounds similar to... 'Deep Rising'.
BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 (Not Happening)
Plot: A corrupt government knocking down housing for monorails.
Players: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronnie Cox
(unknown)
Director: TBD
Script:
Studio: Paramount
Producers: Eddie Murphy, Paramount
Budget: UKN
Status: Development Hell!!!
Release Date: Summer 2005
Buzz: Eddie Murphy says it isn't happening at the Shrek
premiere. Reason... this means that the script was dogshit or that
Bruckheimer’s involvement with the film was crucial in it getting
the greenlight because there’s no way Eddie would pass on doing
something that has the possibility of making money.
BIG BAD WOLF
Plot: a modern day twist on the classic Red Riding Hood story, with
the wolf from the fairy tale being framed for a murder.
Players:
Director:
Script: Mike Glock
Producers:
Studio: Universal Pictures, Casey Silvers Productions
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: An Animated Feature.
BITTEN
Plot: A woman who turns into a werewolf after she gets bitten
and lives among a clandestine wolf pack in Canada. She finally
decides to suppress her animalistic tendencies for a normal human
life, becomes a journalist and falls in love, but is drawn back to
her pack when a rogue band of werewolves begins drafting criminals
into its pack.
Players: Angelina Jolie
Director: TBD
Studio: Warner Bros.
Script: ???
Producers:
Status: Development
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: Warner Bros. has optioned the film rights on the novel from
Kelley Armstrong.
BLACK OUT
Plot: a mystery thriller centered on a female police officer
(Judd) who finds herself at the center of a murder investigation
when her past lovers become the victims in a series of killings.
Jackson will play Mills, a respected cop who is also the mentor to
Judd's character.
Players: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: ???
Status: In Development/Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004/2005
Buzz: Morgan Freeman was set to co-star but backed out and Jackson
appears set to step in to the role.
BLACK WIDOW
Plot: Based on the comic book character. Often seen in the early
Daredevil comics as well as many others over the past forty years.
Players: TBD
Director: David Hayter (directorial debut)
Script: David Hayter
Studio: Lion's Gate
Producers: Marvel's Avi Arad
Budget: $25 million
Status: Development Hell
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Character will be updated from the cold war era. She'll
be a freelance agent.
BLAST
Plot: Die Hard on an Oil Rig.
Players: Eddie Griffith,
Director: Anthony Hickox (Hellraiser III)
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Klaus Rettig and David Lancaster
Script: Steven E. De Souza (Die Hard)
Studio: Gemini Films and Motion Picture Corp. of America
Budget: $20,000,000 ($20M)
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Production begins December with casting ongoing during filming
in South Africa. Doesn't look to be happening right now.
The BLOB
Plot: A second remake of the original classic. This one is to be
like Men In Black.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Studio: Paramount Studios & Scott Rudin
Status: In Development
Release date: 2006/7/8 ????
Buzz: Almost two-years and still no writer has been hired. Word post
11-1-04 is that it's still on
BLOOD & CHOCOLATE
Plot: Based on Annette Curtis Klause's novel, The story centers on a
teenage werewolf who has spent her life trying to hide the fact that
she is part wolf. She must choose between her love for a human and
her family after her relationship with a visiting American threatens
to expose her secret.
Players: Agnes Bruckner, Olivier Martinez
Director: Katja von Garnier
Script: Ehren Kruger
Studio: Lakeshore Entertainment and MGM
Producers:
Budget:
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: A sure flop. That means bad film.
The BLUE NOWHERE
Plot: focuses on a detective that recruits a hacker to help him stop
a serial killer that is stalking his victims using technology.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Scribe: TBD
Studio: Warner Bros.
Producer:
Status: Warner Bros. just bought the rights.
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Based on the Novel by Jeffery Deavers.
BOOGEYMAN
Plot: a classic horror project about a young man traumatized by
memories of terrible events in his childhood bedroom.
Players: Emily
Deschanel and Barry Watson (7th Heaven)
Director: Stephen Kay
Scribe: Eric Kripke, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White.
Studio: Ghost House Pictures, Screen Gems.
Producers: Sam Raimi & Rob Tapert (Xena)
Finance: Screen Gems and Ghost House Pictures.
Status: Production set for June/July.
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Will be filmed in New Zealand.
BUFFY, the Vampire Slayer (Ellar Not
Interested)
Plot: Unknown
Players: TBD
Director: Joss Whedon (most likely)
Status: Gellar isn't interested in doing a feature film. She says it
won't work a second time.
Released Date: TBD
Buzz: Gellar says that the show had a hard enough time getting out
from under the first film, and there is no way another movie would
work. Whedon says it will happen.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Plot: Based on the legendary Marvel Comics character
Players: Nick Cassavetes (still negotiating)
Director: TBD
Scribe: David Self
Studio: Marvel Comics, Paramount will distribute
Producers: Marvel & Paramount, Avi Arad
Budget: $100 million
Status: Scripting Phase
Release Date: 2007
Buzz: Development Hell
CAPTAIN MARVEL
Plot: The comic book character also known as Shazam comes to life.
Likely to be a beginning picture.
Players: TBD
Director: Peter Segal
Script: William Goldman & Bryan Goluboff
Studio: New Line Cinema
Producers: Peter Segal and Michael Ewing
Budget: Unknown
Status: Scripting.
Release Date: Late 2007 or 2008
Buzz:
CAT IN THE HAT 2
Plot: The cat returns
Players: Mike Myers, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin and Kelly
Preston.
Director: Bo Welch
Studio: Universal & Dreamworks
Status: Production slated for summer 2004
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: The film is being produced by Brian Grazer and his Imagine
Entertainment along with Joel Silver.
CHARLIE CHAN
Plot: Charlie Chan's relative a female, will solve crimes in the
21st century.
Players: Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels)
Director: TBD
Script: Dan Harris & Michael Dougherty (X-Men 2)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Producers: Lucy Liu, 20th Century.
Status: Only in the Script Phase
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Liu has been attached to this project for two years now and
20th Century Fox is finally moving forward with the project.
CHROME
Plot: The future is dominated by machines.
Players: Katie Tomlinson
Director: Timothy Hines (direct to video 'Bug Wars')
Status: complete
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Film has a decent budget, great crew and the quality special
effects house who did Voyager.
CLICK
Plot: A man finds a magical remote that allows him to rewind or fast
forward through parts of his life. Trouble starts when the remote
starts to make the choice for him.
Players: Adam Sandler, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Kate
Beckinsale (Underworld) and Christopher Walken (The Dead Zone)
Director: Frank Coraci
Scribe:
Producers: Adam Sandler
Studio:
Status: Fiming begins mid-June.
Release Date: 2006
Buzz:
COLD FEAR
Plot: The video game from Darkworks is heading to the big screen. a
U.S. Coast Guardsman who is sent to board a drifting Russian whaling
ship in the middle of a howling storm on the Bering Sea. He arrives
only to discover that terrifying surprises await him on the
bloodstained decks of the constantly rocking, shifting vessel.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Scribe: TBD
Producers: Mo Ramchandani, Jorg Ihle, Corey May and Dooma Wendschuh
Studio: Avatar Films & Sekretagent Productions
Status: Scripting Phase
Release Date: 2007
Buzz: None
CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT
Plot: Based on the novels from Stephen Donaldson. A shunned author
(Covenant) is magically transported to the Land, a mystical world
where he discovers he is the incarnation of a great hero. Covenant
thinks it's all a dream. But he's the bearer of a magical talisman
and is enlisted to help save the Land from Saturn and his
representatives
Players:
Director
Script: John Orloff (Band of Brothers)
Studio:
Producers: Mark Gordon Co.
Budget:
Status:
Release date:
Buzz: Revelstone Entertainment has purchased feature rights to the
first six novels in the series.
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
Plot: Remake - the story in Victorian times during the exploration
of the Amazon. The original Creature was essentially King Kong, but
I want to make it more a ‘beauty and the beast’ fable. I want
the look and feel to be akin to Jules Verne’s tales like 20,000
LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. I want to increase the horror edge and make
it really scary, because my archaeological explorers will discover
an area of the Amazon that has been kept on a tangential track of
evolution alongside mankind. So there will be giant carnivorous
squid, prehistoric sharks and weird alternate lifeforms that
shouldn’t really exist in such a fresh-water environment. The
Creature will be the Man of this exotic world. He will be very smart
and able to turn the tables on his human hunters.
Players: Benico del Toro (likely)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Scribe: ?
Studio/Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: ?
Status: In Development
Release Date: 2007
Buzz:
CURSED
Plot: the horror film, which centers on three strangers in Los
Angeles whose fates collide one night.
Players: Christina Ricci, Scott Foley (FELICITY), Omar Epps,
Kristina Anapau, Scott Baio, James Brolin, Illeana Douglas, Jesse
Eisenberg, Robert Forster, Judy Greer, Milo Ventimiglia, and and
Corey Feldman
Director: Wes Craven
Script: Kevin Williamson (SCREAM)
Studio: Dimension Films.
Producers: Kevin Williamson & Marianne Maddelena
Budget: ???
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Rick Baker will be doing the special make-up effects for the
film.
DAJA VU
Plot: A federal agent who travels back
in time to prevent a woman’s murder and ends up falling in love
with her.
Players: Denzel Washington
Director: Tony Scott
Scribe:
Producers:
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Budget: $65 million
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz:
DANCING IN THE DARK
Plot: Unknown Thriller
Players: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie,
Director: ??
Status: Should be in post-production
Release Date: Possibly Christmas 2000
Buzz: Got None...
DAREDEVIL
2
Plot: Daredevil will likely battle Kingpin again with the Guardian
Devil. DD will have his faith tested.
Players: Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan
Director: Mark Steven Johnson (maybe)
Script: Kevin S
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Producers:
Budget:
Status: On Hold
Release Date: 2004/5
BUZZ: Guillermo del Toro is interested in helming the project.
Affleck is interested IF the project is given a much darker look and
feel similar to the comic books by Frank Miller.
DARKWATCH (Scifi/Western)
Plot: the adventures of a clandestine group that battles evil forces
in the old west.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Scribe: Glen Morgan and James Wong
Studios: Sammy Corporation
Producers: Glen Morgan and James Wong
Status: Development
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: Morgan and Wong will also have a hand in the creative
development of the game. They are currently writing the movie's
screenplay. DARKWATCH will be available in 2005 for the
PlayStation 2 and Xbox gaming consoles.
DARK MATERIAL
Plot: Lyra Belacqua, a young girl in the care of Oxford University
in an alternate universe, where everyone is born with personal
daemons, that can shift shapes up until a certain age, when they
settle on a final shape. When Lyra discovers that her uncle is to be
assassinated, she embarks on a quest to discover why. However, she
uncovers much more than she ever bargained for.
Director: Chris Weitz (American Pie)
Script: Chris Weitz is rewriting Tom Stoppards original.
Studio
Producers:
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: The film is adapted from the first book in Philip Pullman's
HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
DARK WATER
Plot: A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody
dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building. Adding further
drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former
resident.
Players: Jennifer Connelly, Shelley Duvall, Ariel Gade, Perla Haney-Jardine
Director: Walter Salis
Script: Hideo Nakata, Takashige Ichise
Producers: Doug Davison, Ashley Kramer and Bill Mechanic
Studios: Walt Disney Pictures
Budget: $55 to $65 million
Status: In Work
Release Date: July 2005
Buzz:
DARKSIDERS
Plot: Vampires are recruited by the FBI.
Players:
Director: David Goyer
Scribe: ???
Studio: New Line Cinema
Producers:
Status: Pre-production
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Project is now in the preliminary casting stages. Goyer
may direct after Blade 3.
DAWN OF THE DEAD 2
Plot: Sequel to Zack Snyder's version
Players: TBD
Director: Zack Snyder
Script: Zack Snyder
Studio: Universal Pictures
Producers: Universal Pictures
Budget: $30+ million
Status: Development
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: Universal is taking Dawn of the Dead in a new direction, from
the one created by George Romero.
DEATHLOK
Plot: Based on the futuristic cyborg from Marvel Comics. a
suburban family man who is unwittingly made a test subject for
technology research that slowly turns him into a living computer.
Players: TBD
Director: Lee Tomahori
Scribe: Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Producers: Chrystal Sky Productions, Avi Arad
Budget: $40 million
Status: Unknown
Release Date: 2004/2005
Buzz: Word is making the film would be hell and may not happen at
this time, or anytime soon.
DEJA VU
Plot: Two FBI agents are given the opportunity to step back through
time to stop a terrorist from blowing up a ferry.
Players: Val Kilmer, Denzel Washington
Director: Tony Scott
Script: Tony Scott
Studio:
Budget:
Status: Production begin February in New Orleans.
Release Date: 2006
Buzz:
DETOX
Plot: A serial killer goes on a murder spree. And FBI agent
turns to alcohol and eventually finds his way to a detox center for
cops located in the wyoming wilderness. After several residents turn
up dead, the cop is forced to face his past.
Players: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Berenger, Robert Patrick, Kris
Krostofferson
Status: Completed
Released Date: TBD
Latest Rumor: Berenger will play an orderly who helps Stallone
find the killer. This film was completed in 2000 and has no release
date in site. Being released on video overseas, and NOT in the U.S. Still
listed here because the film is done, but never released.
The DEVIL'S BANKER
Plot: a thriller about a female undercover British spy and an
American counterterrorism agent that's specialized in forensic
accountant matters. Together the duo uncover evidence that points to
a terrorist plot against the United States, coordinated by a man who
is playing a game of cat-and-mouse via worldwide banks. The
terrorist is moving his money and bank accounts around the world,
staying one step ahead of the good guys as they try and follow his
trail.
Players: Tom Cruise
Director: TBD
Script: In Search Of...
Producers: Cruise/Wagner Productions
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Budget: $90+ million
Status: Hiring a Writer
Release Date: 2007
Buzz:
DIE HARD 4
Plot: McClane faces a journey through the Amazon jungle
after he is kidnapped and whisked away. (very subject to change)
Players: Bruce Willis, Britney Spears (rumored for daughter)
Director: TBD (Willis not interested in the four that studio wants.)
Script:
Studio:
Producers:
Budget:
Status: Pre-Production & casting
Release Date: 2006/2007
Notes: Fox did some handy work in the trade of a movie title
"Man of War" with Revolution Studios to get Bruce Willis
to finally commit to the fourth film in the Die Hard franchise.
Likely to be the last Die Hard feature with the 47 year old actor as
McClane. NOTE: Tom Jones is friends with Bruce Willis and is
interested in playing the villain.
DOC SAVAGE
Plot: The perfect human speciman with both brains and brawn
to spare. He uses his vast fortune to help others.
Players: Arnold Swartzenegger only one set to date.
Status: Maybe after Terminator 3.
Latest Rumor: Screenwriter David Leslie Johnson is scripting
based on the 80 page treatment he originally wrote with Brett Hill.
Budget is set above the $100M mark.
Buzz: Script is completed and in pre-production. WILL NOT
HAPPEN with the Schwartz in the lead.
DREADNAUGHT
Plot: The story is about a captain who must go up against his
commanding officer on the most high-tech warship ever built.
Players: Vin Diesel, Dominic Sena
Director: Vin Diesel and Dominic Sena
Script: Blake Masters, with a rewrite by Dan Gilroy and David Arata
and another by Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson.
Studio:
Producers: Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Sean Bailey and Cooper Layne
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: 2005
Buzz:
DREAMTECTIVE
Plot: centers around a teenage girl who solves mysteries by entering
people's dreams.
Players:
Director:
Script: Nick Pulsy
Studio:
Producers: Fortress Entertainment (David Permut)
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: Based on the novel by Elizabeth Swados.
EIGHTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD
Plot: Sinbad returns, this time heading to China.
Players: Keannu Reeves, Jet Li, Hayden Christensen (Vader), Ziyi
Zhang & Djimon Housou
Director: Rob Cohen (xXx)
Scribe: Rob Cohen ???
Producers:
Studio: Sony Pictures
Budget: $85+ million
Status: 2006/2007
Release Date:
Buzz: Almost no information on this film.
ELEKTRA 2
Plot: Based on the comic book character from Daredevil.
Players: Jennifer Garner,
Director: TBD
Script:
Producers:
Studio:
Status: Not In Development
Release Date:
Buzz: Production will depend on how well the first film does at the
box office.
EL MUERTO
Plot: Based on the comic book superhero. The Dead, centers on
Diego de la Muerte, a young man from Whittier, Calif., who is on his
way to a Day of the Dead mixer when he is abducted and killed in a
ritual sacrifice, only to be resurrected as El Muerto, the Aztec
Zombie, by Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec God of Death
Players: Wilmer Valderrama (That 70's Show)
Director: Brian Cox
Script:
Producers:
Studios:
Budget:
Status: Begins Shooting in January, 2005
Release Date: ???
Buzz:
ENCHANTED
Plot: Combined live-action/CG animated tale about a peasant girl in
a fairytale world who's banished to New York City after falling for
the Prince, but once there falls for a married man. The Prince and
his evil Queen mother soon follow her to NYC.
Players: John Trovolta, Susan Surandon, David Hyde Pierce
Director: ???
Status: Pre-production
Buzz: NONE
EQUALIZER, The
Plot: Based on the television series.
Players:
Director:
Scribe:
Producers:
Studio:
Release Date: 2007
Buzz:
ERAGON
Plot: Based on the novel with the same name.
Players: Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Djimon Hounsou and Ed
Speleers as the title character.
Director: Stefen Fangmeier (Lemony Snicket's A Series of
Unfortunate Events - Visual Effects Supervisor)
Script: Peter Buchman (Jurassic Park III), which was
subsequently rewritten by the Planet of the Apes team of
Larry Konner and Mark Rosenthal.
Producers:
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Budget: $55+ million
Release Date: June 16th, 2006
Status: Production
Buzz:
EVIL DEAD 4
Plot: The return of Ash.
Players: Bruce Campbell
Director: Sam Raimi
Script: Sam Raimi
Studio:
Producers: Sam Raimi
Budget:
Status: Development
Release Date:
Buzz:
FAHRENHEIT 451
Plot: Based on the classic novel by Ray Bradbury. In a fascist
future society where independent thought and speech is quelled, a
book burner suddenly realizes the futility of life this way whilst
uncovering an underground rebellion who memorize book contents.
Player: Joseph Fiennes and Charlize Theron
Director: TBD
Status: Pre-production
Release Date: 2003/2004
Buzz: Mel Gibson was developing this one forever, and now will only
be co-producing.
The FALL GUY
Plot: Based on the series about a stunt man who is also a part-time
bounty hunter.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: Tristan Patterson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Producers: Guymon Casady, Glen Larson and Brad Lefler
Budget: $40+ million
Release Date: 2005
Status: In Development
Buzz: There was a small bidding war between Paramount and Warner
Bros. for the big screen rights. Patterson is receiving a mid six to
low seven figures for writing the script. As of 11.11.04 the fist
draft was not yet dead.
FAST & THE FURIOUS 3
Plot: Suped up and gutless foreign cars going nowhere fast.
Players: Vin Diesel (if he gets nearly $20 million to return)
Director:
Script:
Studio:
Producers:
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Diesel wants to return to this crap, but not xXx. Smart man...
FEMME FATALE
Plot: Directed by Brian DePalma. A film noir style thriller about a
female con artist trying to go straight but finding her crooked past
catching up to her at several turns, whilst a paparazzi journalist
becomes infatuated with her
Players: Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos,
Director: ?
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz:
The FLASH
Plot: Based on the DC Comic book character who's been around since
1939.
Players:
Director: David Goyer
Script: David Goyer
Studio: Warner Bros.
Producers: David Goyer
Budget: $50 to $75 million
Status: Script Phase
Release Date:
Buzz:
FLASH GORDON
Plot: The comic book character returns.
Players:
Directors:
Script:
Producers:
Studio: Stephen Sommers
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: Sommers has decided to just produce this one rather than
direct. Yes, it's true that Ashton Kurtcher (70's show) is leading
the way to star.
FLUSHED AWAY
Plot: A pampered British rat is accidentally flushed down the toilet
into the sewers of London.
Players: TBD
Director: Sam Fell
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: This one is being produced by Dreamworks and Aardman
Animations. They most recently collaborated on 'Chicken Run'.
FOREVERMEN
Plot: the story will center on superheroes in a "different type
of situation," It has to do with crime and punishment in the
not-too-distant future and a unique way of punishing people who are
menaces to society.
Players: Ben Affleck
Director: TBD
Scribe: Luke McMullen
Studio: TBD
Producers: Stan Lee's POW! Films production company & Idiom
Films.
Budget: TBD
Status: On the Fast Track
Release Date: End of 2004
Buzz:
FORGE OF STEEL
Plot: The Greg Bear sci-fi novel 'Forge of Steel' has been picked up
by Warner Bros. as a feature film project.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Studio: Warner Brothers
Status: Development. Ken Nolan (black hawk down) is scripting.
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Warner Brothers hopes to turn the trilogy into a franchise.
(that's three films) which includes Bear's other novels 'Anvil
of Stars', and the third novel which he hasn't finished writing yet.
The FOUNTAIN (Alive Again)
Plot: Unknown (being held secret for now)
Players: Hugh Jackman
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Studio: Fox
Status: Unknown (in talks again)
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: This project will go into production soon.
FURY ROAD
(Mad Max 4) (DEAD)
Plot: The storyline is very guarded.
Players: Mel Gibson
Director: George Miller
Scribe: George Miller
Studio/Company: 20th Century Fox
Producers: George Miller
Budget: $104M
Status: Pre-Production. To start in May 2003 or May 2004.
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Mel Gibson gets $25M to reprise the role. Now DEAD -
Gibson reports that he is too old for action films anymore.
G-FORCE
Plot: a troupe of super-intelligent animal commandos that
work for a government agency out to stop a evil billionaire from
taking over the world.
Players:
Director:
Script:
Studio: Disney
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: combination of live-action and computer animation aimed at a
family audience. Visual effects supervisor Hoyt Yeatman to make his directorial
debut on the film. Yeatman is a veteran special effects master and
Oscar-winner for his work on James Cameron's THE ABYSS. He's
also worked on the Disney films MIGHT JOE YOUNG and MISSION
TO MARS.
GHOST RIDER:
Plot: Based on the comic book
Players: Nicolas Cage, Wes Bentley
Director: Steven Johnson (Daredevil)
Script:
Producers:
Studio/Company: Sony Pictures (was at Dimension Films)
Budget: Likely in the $100 million range.
Status: Complete
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: production begins January 31st in Melbourne & Broken
Hill. An 80 day shoot is planned.
GHOSTBUSTERS 3 ( NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN)
Plot: The sequel does adhere to that general plot line (at
least in this draft). Without revealing too many spoilers,
Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent suggests that hell (portrayed as a stygian
mirror image of The Big Apple dubbed "Manhellton") has
grown overcrowded and congested. As a result, hell is literally
evicting people back into the world of the living in order to
alleviate their congestion problem.
Players: Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Bill Murray.
Director: Harold Ramis
Status: Bill Murray is the hold-up. Script was completed in
1999 by Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis.
Release Date: Will NOT happen.
Buzz: Bill Murray will not relinquish his one-fifth of the rights
for the film to be made. And the script isn't what Murray wants. Murray
will only participate if they were to have his character become a
ghost.
GLADIATOR 2: (likely dead)
Plot: Takes place 15 years after the last one.
Players: Russel Crowe (wants to return)
Director: TBD
Scribe: John Logan (Star Trek: Nemesis)
Studio: Universal & Dreamworks
Status: Both companies are moving forward with the project. David
Franzoni, Doug Wick and Walter Parkes will produce.
Release Date:
Buzz: Appears Dead
GODSEND
Plot: Godspeed takes place on an international space station,
where a life-threatening situation develops that could kill all the
inhabitants on board.
Director: TBD
Script: Ryne Douglas Peterson (Mercury Rising)
Studio: TBD
Producer: Lightstorm Entertainment
Budget: $85+ million
Status: lensing in September 2004
Release Date: 2005/2006
Buzz: Cameron will only produce. Still will not take the helm on a
major product.
GOOD BOY
Plot: an alien dog coming from the Dog Star, Sirius, who has come to
Earth to investigate reports that his fellow canines have abandoned
their original plan to take over the planet.
Players: TBD
Director: John Hoffman
Status: Casting underway for the young boy to play the lead.
Production to begin late August in Vancouver, Canada.
Release Date: 2003
Buzz: Jim Henson Pictures is co-producing the movie, which will be
live action/CGI. Prominate stars are being sought to voice the
various animals in the film.
H.I.V.E.
Plot: The title is an acronym for the Higher Institute of
Villainous Education, a school where kids with off-the-charts
criminal acumen are educated to become supervillains
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: In Work
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Budget:
Producers: Linda Obst
Status: Scripting
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: None
HALLOWEEN 9
Plot: The town fights back against Michael Myers.
Players: Bianca Kajlich
Director: TBD
Script: Allan B. McElroy
Studio: TBD
Status: Project is in early development, with the script being
written.
Release Date: Summer 2004
Buzz: None.
HAMMER DOWN
Plot: The story concerns a disgraced NASCAR driver who becomes a
wheel man in a heist in the belief that it will get him back on the
track.
Players: Matthew McConaughey
Director:
Script: Andrew Marlowe
Studio: Dreamworks
Producers:
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: 2005/2006
Buzz: Dreamworks purchased the spec script in 2001 from Tag Mendillo
& Ric Waugh. Dennis Quaid also has a race car flick in the
works. McConaughey has to finish Sahara and Tishomingo Blues before
starting on this project.
HANNIBAL 4
Plot: Unknown.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: Anthony Hopkins (the actor)
Studio: TBD
Status: Hopkins is working on a script for a fourth film.
Release Date:
Buzz: Nothing serious on this one yet, other than Hopkins and his
script being written.
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL
Plot: The film will be a prequel of sorts to the show, as it will
feature Paladin in 1875, as he discovers what his purpose is, and he
moves west to San Francisco to run away from his dark past in the
East.
Players:
Director:
Scribe: Daniel Pyne
Studio: Paramount
Producer:
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: Film is being fast-tracked.
HELLBOY 2
Plot: Sequel to the Original
Players: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Status: complete
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: Del Toro is excited about this new film.
HELLDORADO
Plot: Unknown: Will be an action flick.
Players: The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Christopher Walken, and Seann
William Scott.
Director: TBD
Studio:
Release Date: 2003
Buzz: None
the Highwayman
Plot: A widower hits the highways in an attempt to find the serial
killer who murdered his wife.
Players: Jim Caviezel (negotiating)
Director: Robert Harmon
Status: Development
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Studios: New Line Cinema and Millennium Films. the film is
loosely based on the 70's film 'the Highwaymen' about a cat and
mouse game involving a villain who hunts women down with his 72
Eldorado.
HITMAN
Plot: Will be based on the video game HITMAN from EIDOS.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: TBD
Studio: Negotiating.
Producer: TBD
Budget: $TBD
Status: Being put into development
Release Date:
Buzz: The third game is budgeted for $43M. Eidos is
negotiating with an un-named studio.
HOLMES & WATSON
Plot: The
film will center on the descendants of the legendary sleuth and his
sidekick, Dr. Watson, and will be set in modern-day London. The heir
to the Holmes legacy will be portrayed as a twentysomething playboy
who uses his talents mainly to pick up girls, until he is
unwittingly drawn back into the family detective business by a
young, sexy Dr. Jane Watson.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: James Robinson (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Studio: New Line Cinema
Producers: William Sherak and Jason Shuman
Budget:
Status: In the scripting phase
Release Date: 2005
Buzz:
HUNTER
Plot: Based on the novel by James Byron Huggins.
Players: Sly Stallone
Director: Luc Besson
Scribe: Besson & Stallone adapting the novel
Studio/Company: Universal Studios
Producers: Stallone and Besson
Status: Early Development (12.5.02)
Release Date: Late 2004 or early 2005
Buzz: This is one of the films that were originally part of
Stallone's $60M/3 picture deal with Universal in 1995 that was
canceled by the studio in 2000 after two dismal movies.
I DREAM OF JEANNIE
Plot: Likely similar to the finding storyline in the series pilot.
Players: Will Smith and Halle Berry
Director: TBD
Status: Currently having severe script rewrites.
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Very little actually. No one can seem to come up a suitable
script for the feature film based on the series with the same name.
The IMMORTALS
Plot: the story of four friends who are presented with the
opportunity to become immortal, but only if they choose someone to
die in their place.
Players:
Director: Jonathan Liebesman (negotiating)
Scribe: Carter Blanchard
Studio/Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: David Kirschner
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: None
INCREDIBLE HULK 2
Plot: Based on the famous comic. An accidental exposure of Dr. Bruce
Banner causes him to mutate into a large green skinned monster when
he becomes angry. Hunted down by the military, his main pursuer is
also the father of a woman Banner is in love with.
Players: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte
Director: ?
Status: script phase
Release Date: 2007
Buzz: Despite being considered a box office flop, Marvel is planning
a sequel.
the INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
Players: Eddie Murphy signed.
Director: Forgot name
Status: Production to start soon
Release Date: Unknown 2k3 likely.
Buzz: Hard to believe a comedian has been signed in this serious
role.
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 (DEAD)
Plot: President Whitmore and the world will once again face
off against the aliens.
Players: Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum (both unsigned but talked
too)
Director: Roland Emmerich (Devlin to produce)
Status: In Development
Release Date: Summer 2k3/4 if it happens
Buzz: Emmerich and Devlin have a working idea and are moving ahead
with the script.
INDIANA JONES 4
Plot: Story is set. Lucas will produce and Spielberg will
helm.
Players: Harrison Ford and Sean Connery will return.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Script: Frank Darabont (with Lucas Rewriting)
Producers: George Lucas
Budget: $100 million plus:
Status: In Development with script in work.
Release Date: Summer 2007
Latest Rumors: George Lucas is penning the script. Can you imagine
the horrible dialogue that will come from this? If you saw the last
Star Wars feature you know what I am talking about.
INSTANT KARMA
Plot: When a safecracker dies he returns to earth as different
animals, moving up the food chain with each incarnation.
Players: Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, Pierce Brosnan, Mira Sorvino,
David Alan Grier and Eartha Kitt
Director:
Scribe: Paul Hernandez
Producers:
Studios: New Line Cinema
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: Possibly 2005
Buzz:
the INVISIBLE
Plot: two teenagers that are invisible to all those around
themselves, one for psychological reasons and the other because his
death has really left him as an unseen ghost. The Swedish film
centered on an older teen named Niklas who is beaten into
unconsciousness by a bully. When he awakes and heads off to school,
he soon discovers that no one can see him -- because he's dead and a
ghost. The story then follows the spirit of Niklas as he observes
what happens to his killer and whether his body will be discovered.
Players:
Director: David Goyer (Blade III)
Script:
Producers:
Studio: Dreamworks & Spyglass Entertainment
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: Pretty much set to be Goyers next project.
IRON FIST:
Plot: Will be based on the basic comic book storyline
Players: Ray Park (Toad & Episode One)
Director:
Status: In development hell
Release Date: Was 2003, likely to slide to 2004.
Buzz: Script in constant rewrites. Could be development hell if
something doesn't happen soon.
IRON MAN
Plot: the story of Tony Stark, inventor and owner of Stark
Enterprises, whose work in corporate espionage and international
terrorism leads to an accident that forces him to go on life support
in the form of a high-tech bodysuit.
Players: TBD (front runners Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt)
Director: Nick Cassettes (the Notebook & John Q)
Scribe: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (Smallville creators)
Studio: New Line Cinema
Producers: Marvel Studios, New Line, & Angry Films
Budget: $65+ million (likely in the $100 million range)
Status: Development
Release Date: Summer 2005
Buzz: The first script is nearly complete and Marvel is extremely
high on this project.
INTERSTATE 60
Plot: A business man dying of cancer is on a trip to confront all
those companies who tell lies. He finds his way along Interstate 60,
which is a mythical highway that does not exist.
Players: James Marsden, Chris Cooper, Michael J. Fox, Christopher
Lloyd, and Kurt Russell.
Director: ??
Status: In Pre-production
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: This is listed as a fantasy film.
JINX (DEAD)
Plot: Based on the Jinx charcter in James Bond's "Die Another
Day"
Players: Halle Berry
Director: TBD
Studio: MGM
Producer: Barbara Broccoli & Michael G. Wilson
Scribe: TBD
Status: Early Discussions
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: MGM and the Producers were very happy with Halle Berry as Jinx
and thinks the character would make a great spy adventure franchise.
JINX
Plot: Based on the Image comic book character Jinx. (not the James
Bond character. JINX is the name of a female bounty hunter.
In Bendis' story Jinx teams up with a man (named Goldfish) on the
run from the law so they can both find the whereabouts to a secret
cache of $3 million stashed by the mob.
Players: Charlize Theron
Director: TBD
Studio: Universal Pictures
Producer: Charlize Theron
Scribe: Michael Bendis (the comic creator)
Status: Early Discussions
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Theron will film Aeon Flux first.
The JOB
Plot: a female hit woman (Hannah) who desperately wants to get out
of her job. She's faced with killing a pregnant woman and the
woman's husband, only to become haunted by her own past when she
also becomes pregnant. Renfro will play the role of Troy, the
reluctant drug-dealer husband, while Forsythe will star as Vernon,
the head of the hit-man operation
Players: Darryl Hannah, Brad Renfro and William Forsythe
Director: Kenny Golde
Scribe: Kenny Golde
Studio/Company: Platform Entertainment
Producer: ???
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Production slated to begin Nov 6 in Los Angeles.
JOHN DOE
Plot: A man loses his memory but gains superhuman powers. He must
use them to stay one step ahead of an assassin that is trying to
take him out.
Players: Wesley Snipes,
Director: Zak Penn (wrote X-Men)
Scribe: ?
Studio/Company: Revolution Films
Producer: ?
Status: Production begins next year.
Release Date: 2004
JONAH HEX (development hell)
Plot: Based on the Comic Book character. Jonah Hex is earning a
living as an unusual bounty hunter, a man that specializes in
tracking down creatures and monsterous beings in the old west.
Players:
Director:
Scribe: William Farmer
Studio:
Producer:
Status: Development Hell
Release Date:
Buzz: The screenplay was written in 1997. If there is a project in
development it is in slow mo. Keannu Reeves is interested in
starring in this project.
JUMANJI II
Plot: More kids release the magic of the board when they
find it.
Players: (wanted) Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Dennis Dugan
Status: In Development HELL.
Release Date: 2004???
Buzz: The idea for a "Jumani 2" has been mooted since the
first film finished it's theatrical run - but never seemed to get
anywhere. Now the idea is quite viable - but fancy trying to entice
the original cast back. Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst will be
quite a hefty amount out of the film's budget even if they did say
yes.
JUNGLE RIDE
Plot: Based on the ride at the Disney Park
Players:
Director:
Scribe: Josh Goldstein & John Norville (Tin Cup)
Studio: Mandeville Films (Disney Based)
Producers:
Budget:
Status: Development. Set to lens summer 2005.
Release Date: 2006
Buzz:
JURASSIC PARK IV
Plot: Story has been decided on, Return of Sam Neill is possible.
Players: TBD, Sam Neil, Jeff Goldbloom.
Director: Simon West (Laura Croft, Con Air)
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Scribe: William Monahan
Studio: Universal
Status: In Development (got the greenlight 10.14.02)
Release Date: (2006)
Buzz: Steven Spielberg to produce the fourth film. Joe Johnston
might be interested in returning to helm. Spielberg believes this is
the best story since the first film. He will produce. It should have
been the used for the third film, but the story wasn't completed and
they went with the one they had ready. 11.5.02, Universal has
finally moving forward with the fourth installment and has hired a
scribe. 4*29*04 - Suddenly the project script has some serious
flaws.
The KINGDOM
Plot: follows the story of a team of U.S. government officials
who work with a Middle Eastern government to investigate a bombing.
Players: TBD
Director: Peter Berg
Script: Mathew Michael Carnahan
Studio: Universal Pictures
Producers: Michael Mann
Budget:
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2005
Buzz:
KNIGHT RIDER
Plot: Based on the series with the same name.
Players: Dan Paris, David Hasselhoff
Director: TBD
Script: Glen A Larson
Studio: Revolution Studios
Producer: Hasselhoff, Larson, etc.
Status: Glen A Larson has completed the first draft of the script.
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Ashton Kutcher & Paul Walker are in the running for the
lead as Michael Knight.
MEN IN BLACK 3:
Plot: Idea pitched by Smith and Jones.
Players: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Script:
Status: TBD
Release Date: 200?
Buzz: Second film was not a box office success. Third Film is in
works.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
Plot: TBD: will be very action packed.
Players: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Mark Blucas and Kelly Brook.
Director: John Carnahan (being sought by Paramount)
Scribe: Robert Towne & Dean Georgaris
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Producer: Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner
Budget: $150+ million
Status: Production Slated for July 18th, 2006
Release Date: Summer 2007 (now unlikely)
Buzz: Script finally handed in on Feb. 2004.
MONSTER HUNTER
Plot: "a child psychologist who can actually see the monsters
that torment kids from closets and under beds. He uses that skill to
vanquish the beasts until he meets a particularly nasty one."
Players: Kevin James (King of Queens)
Director:
Script: Robert L. Baird and Daniel Gerson (Monster Inc.)
Studio:
Producers: Overbrook Entertainment's Will Smith and James Lassiter
Budget: $40+ million
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2006
Buzz:
MORTAL KOMBAT 3
Plot: Big Secret!
Players: Christopher Lambert, back as Rayden, Chris Casammassa, back
as Scorpion, and Linden Ashby, reprising his role as Johnny Cage
(yeah, he died…but this is the movies remember?).
Director: George P. Cosmatos (First Blood pt1)
Scribe:
Studio: Threshold Entertainment
Producers: Lawrence Kasanoff
Budget: $25 to $30 million
Status: Development & Studio Search
Release Date: Summer 2006
Buzz: New Line dumped the rights to the project. Threshold searching
for new Studio. $25 million put up for the film. Set to begin
production around February 2005.
The MUMMY III
Plot: The Mummy returns for a third and likely final installment.
Players: Brendan Frasier
Director:
Script:
Producers: Universal Studios & Stephen Sommers
Studio: Universal Studios
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: 2006/2007
Buzz: Sommers will only produce, and Brendan Frasier is no longer a
sure thing. After three or four flops who would want to return to
something as hot as this?
NAMOR (aka Sub Mariner)
Plot: To be based on the comic book character Prince Namor, the
Submariner.
Players: The Rock (being considered)
Director: Chris Columbus (Harry Potter)
Scribe: David Self (road to perdition)
Studio: Universal Studios
Producer: Avi Arad & Kevin Misher, 1492 Productions.
Budget: ???
Status: Fast Track
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Script is complete, and it's now being fine tuned according to
Avi Arad. Universal is hot to get this one into production.
Budget could increase based on Cage starring.
NEVER WAS
Plot: A mix of fantasy & reality. A paranoid schizophrenic
believes that he's the King of Never Was.
Players: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Nick Nolte, Brittany Murphy,
and Alan Cummings.
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Script: Joshua Michael Stern
Studio:
Producer:
Budget:
Status: Production - 9/2004
Buzz: Filming is being done in Vancouver, CA
NINE LIVES
Plot: Nine Lives tells the story of a former Army Special Ops
soldier who gets injected with a hallucinogenic mind-control drug
that allows people to alter his reality with simple suggestions.
Players: Wesley Snipes
Director: David Carson
Scribe: Tom Vaughn
Studio: Millennium Films & Jacobson Co.
Producer: Jim Wedaa, Tom Jacobson, Avi Lerner and Brad Jenkel are
producing, with Bob Misiorowski executive producing.
Budget: ???
Status: Shooting begins March 30th
Release Date:
Buzz: Filming will take place in Bulgaria
NONE
PITCH BLACK 3, & 4: Chronicles of Riddick
Trilogy.
Plot: Unknown
Players: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore
Director: David Twohy
Script: David Twohy
Studio:
Producers:
Status: Devolpment
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: After a disappointing first film, the sequels are unlikely. Vin
Diesel still wants these two projects to happen.
PLAGUE
Genre: HORROR
Plot: Set in the future a mysterious apocalypse has left the worlds
children comatose and unresponsive. (Does that sound scary or what.)
Players:
Director:
Script: Hal Masonberg and Teal Minton
Producers: Ciive Barker, Tim O'Hair, and Jorge Saralegui
Studio: Armada Pictures and Midnight Blue Show.
Budget:
Status: Development
Release Date: 2006/2007
Buzz: Should be his next project when he's done producing
"Dread" for 20th Century Fox.
POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Plot: Based on the 1972 Irwin Allen original.
Players:
Director:
Script: Mark Protosevich (written scripts for A Princess of Mars, I
am Legend, & Strangers in a Strange Land - Projects all in
development)
Producers: Mike Fleiss and Wolfgang Peterson
Studio: Warner Brothers
Status:
Release Date: TBD
Buzz:
PREACHER
Plot: Based on the Comic Book with the same name.
Players: James Marsden (not signed yet)
Director: TBD
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Ben Affleck was sought a few years ago to star, but now looks
like James Marsden may take the lead and begin filming when he is
done with Cyclops in X-Men 2. Robert Harvey is producing.
the PRISONER
Plot: Based on the classic TV show & directed by Simon West. A
disgruntled spy eager to retire awakens to learn he is 'Number 6', a
prisoner in a mysterious place with strange inhabitants known only
as 'The Village' while his captors remain anonymous.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Status: Development Hell
Release Date: TBD (loosely in 2003 though unlikely)
Buzz: All talk and no action.
the PUNISHER 2
Plot: The Punisher returns for the sequel
Players: Thomas Jane (61, Deep Blue Sea)
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Script: Jonathan Hensleigh
Studio: Artisan
Producers: Gale Anne Hurd (Hensleigh's wife), Avi Arad.
Budget: $30 million
Status: complete
Release Date: Summer 2005 or 2006
Buzz: First was not being done, and now there is talk of doing the
sequel.
PURSUED
Plot: It's a thriller
Players: Christian Slater, Michael Clarke Duncan, Estella Warren
Director: Kristoffer Tabori
Script:
Producers:
Studio:
Budget:
Status: Production November 2003
Release Date:
Buzz: Will be filming in Vancouver, Canada.
NONE
REAPING, The
Plot: A Teen Slasher Flick.
Players: Hillary Swank (the Core),
Director: Stephen Hopkins (Lost in Space)
Script:
Producers: Joel Silvers
Studio:
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: If you hated Gothika with Halle Berry you won't like this one
either.
RIDING THE BULLET
Plot: a suicidal teenager trying to hitchhike across Maine to
see his mother. After a few bizarre rides and misfortunes, he is
picked up by, "a menacing stranger -- a spectral figure who
offers a final lift, a terrible ultimatum and a new perspective on
life."
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Scribe: Mick Garris (the Stand)
Studio: Motion Picture Corp. of America & Apollo Media
Producers: Brad Kevoy
Budget: ???
Status: Production set for spring 2003, once casting is set.
Release Date: 2004/2005
Buzz: Based on work by Stephen King
RONIN
Plot: Based on the Frank Millers comic RONIN.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Scribe: TBD
Studio/Company: New Line Cinema
Status: In Development.
Release Date: 2004/2005
Buzz: None
RUSH HOUR 3
Plot: Both characters will be in a neutral country for this film.
Both fish out of water so to speak.
Players: Jackie Chan & Chris Tucker
Director: Brett Ratner
Script: Bret Ratner
Studio:
Producers:
Budget:
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2006 or 2007
Buzz: Jackie Chan ($15 million) and Chris Tucker ($20 million
against 15% of the gross) are signed. Salma Hayek is
desired for the female lead but she has not been inked.
SCANNERS
Plot: amped up remake of the 1981 David Cronenberg SF Film.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Studio: Artisan Pictures
Status: Development
Buzz: None, Very little interest in this film.
SCOOBY DOO 3
Plot: (could be similar to the first one) the Scooby gang (Fred,
Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby) is called back into action by the
owner of an elaborate island haunted house theme park which claims
to be experiencing a real life haunting
Players: Mathew Millard (hackers)
Director: TBD
Status: In Development
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Daphne and Fred could be recast as Prince and Gellar are
unsure what they want to do. As of January 2006, likely to not
happen.
SHAZAM (SEE CAPTAIN MARVEL)
Plot: Based on the comic book about Captain Marvel.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Scribe: TBD
Studio/Company: New Line
Status: DC and New Line have hammered out a deal.
SHINOBI
Plot: Feature based on the ninja action video game.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Script: TBD
Studio: Mindfire Entertainment
Producer:
Release Date: Summer 2004
Budget: $40,000,000
Buzz: Something along the lines of Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon and
Blade.
SHREK 3
Plot: The Princess and the Ogre return...
Players: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Cleese
Director: ???
Status: complete
Releasee Date: May 2004
Buzz: NONE
SHUTTER ISLAND
Plot: The story is about to U.S. Marshals sent to a prison
island in Boston's Outer Harbor that houses the criminally insane to
recapture a violent female prisoner that has escaped. When a big
storm washes over the island, they become stranded and someone
starts playing mind games with them.
Players:
Director: Wolfgang Peterson
Script:
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Producers:
Budget:
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: Based on Dennis Lehane's novel "Shutter Island"
SIN CITY 2
Plot: Based on the graphic novels from Frank Miller. A trio of
vignettes following a group of dark characters who live in the
corrupt titular town.
Players: Unknown
Director: Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, The Facutly) and Frank
Miller
Script: Robert Rodriguez
Studio: Dimension Films (A Miramax Company)
Producers: Dimension Films
Budget: ????
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2006 or 2007
Buzz:
SKINWALKERS
Plot: The film centers on a 12-year-old boy who somehow ends up in
the middle of warring werewolf clans
Players: TBD
Director: James Isaac (Jason X)
Script: James DeMonaco, James Roday (an actor) and Todd Harthan.
Producers: Constantine Films
Studio: Lions Gate
Budget:
Status: Production in September
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: Stan Winston will be handling the Special Effects.
SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS
Plot: A Time Machine experiment has gone awry (imagine that),
leaving the planet trapped on Halloween eve. Soon ghosts and spirits
realize they have free reign on the planet. A young boy is recruited
into an elite ghostbusting squadron called... 'The Sleepless
Knights'.
Players: TBD
Director: Guillermo Del Toro (maybe)
Script: Carls Ellsworth
Studio: Dreamworks
Producers: Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers)
Budget:
Status: Idea sold to Dreamworks by Del Toro and writer Grant
Morrisson who is likely to script the project.
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Based on a comic book by Grant Morrison.
SLITHER
Plot: Story revolves around an alien plaque that infects a small town. A
local man becomes infected and goes on a murder spree.
Players: Nathan Fillion (Serenity), Michael Rooker (Days of Thunder),
Gregg Henry, Elizabeth Banks.
Director: James Gunn
Script:
Producers:
Studio:
Budget:
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2006
Notes:
SNAKES ON A PLANE
Plot: "Snakes" centers on a ruthless assassin who
unleashes a crate full of lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger
jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in
protective custody. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must
band together to survive.
Players:
Director: David R. Ellis
Script:
Studio: New Line Cinema
Producers:
Budget:
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2005
Buzz:
SOLOMON KANE
Plot: Based on the Robert E. Howard character.
Players: TBD
Director: TBD
Studio: New Line Cinema
Scribe: David Jung & Steve Dandois
Producers: Don Murphy & Gregg Hoffman along with the estate of
late Robert Howard.
Status: Rights purchased by New Line Cinema as of 10.6.02
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: NONE
A SOUND OF THUNDER
Plot: Time Travel game hunter goes after a T'Rex, looses his
nerve and stumbles from the path and ends up changing history.
Players: Pierce Brosnan
Director: Renny Harlin
Release Date: 2003
Buzz: This is based on a Ray Bradbury storyline used in his series. The
hunter stepped off the path killing a butterfly, which changed the
present when he returned to it.
SPAWN 2: Dark Justice (looks dead,
finally)
Plot: A much darker and more in the style of the comic
book sequel to the live action 1997 film. This time the action
focuses on the hardened police detective Sam and the thorough
somewhat dweebish Twitch investigating a serial killer.
Players: Micheal Jai White (interested, but not signed.)
Director: TBD
Status: Develpment Hell.
Release Date: Summer 2k3 ( If it ever gets off the ground)
Buzz: McFarlane has turned in the script. Spawn may actually not
appear in the film. It could follow the two cops in the comics.
SPIDERMAN 3
Plot: All action franchise finale
Players: Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst,
Director: Sam Raimi
Script: Alvin Sargeant
Studio: Sony Pictures
Producers: Sony Pictures
Budget: $150 million
Status: Post-Production
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Sargeant is getting $1 million to pen the script based on
a story created by Raimi and his brother Ivan.
SPEED RACER
Plot: Based on the Cartoon Character.
Players: Vince Vaughn wants to star.
Director:
Scribes:
Studio:
Producers: Joel Silver & Lauren Shuler Donner
Budget: Development Hell
Status:
Release Date:
Buzz: Been in development for the last ten years with constant start
dates that never materialize.
SPLINTER CELL
Plot: NSA sub-agency called Third Echelon. Alone, yet armed with some of the
best hi-tech weapons on the market, Fisher is geared up to infiltrate and
neutralize the enemy - all without leaving a trace. Fisher is sent into action
when two CIA agents mysteriously disappear in Azerbaijan.
Players: Thomas Jane
Director: Peter Berg
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Producers:
Budget: $50+ Million
Status: Preproduction
Release Date: 2006
Buzz: With Ben Afflecks dismall box office draw they are hoping to use
this to replace the Tom Clancy franchise of Jack Ryan.
SPY HUNTER
Plot: Alec Sects, a former pilot that is recruited by
International Espionage Services to be a member of the Spy Hunter
team.
Players: Dwayne, the Rock, Johnson
Director: TBD
Script: Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 2)
Studio: Universal Studios
Producers: Chuck Gordon and Adrian Askarieh
Budget: $45+ million
Status: Development.
Release Date:
Buzz: GM is creating the Spy Hunter car for the film. It will break
off into a boat, a three wheeler and a motorcycle. No submarine?
Man. :) The Peter Gunn music from the game will be in the
film.
STAR TREK 11
Plot: Early Trek - James T. Kirk & Spock meet at the academy and go on their
first adventure together.
Players: TBD
Director: J.J. Abrams
Script: J.J. Abrams, Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman
Producers: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Status: Paramount hopes to have the project in theaters by 2008.
Release Date: Summer 2008
Buzz: This project top lines the new executives at Paramount's attempt to return
to profitable franchises. JJ Abrams is coming off his directing of Mission
Impossible III.
STARGATE 3 & 4 (still on the back burner)
Plot: Debatable as to whether or not MGM does it their way with
the cast of the series, or Roland and Emmerich decide to do the
return of James Spader and Kurt Russell.
Players: Cast of Stargate SG-1 or original feature cast.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Status: Only Talk... MGM has been hinting at a
feature before the Sci-Fi Channel picked up the series for a fifth
season. Emmerich and Devlin just began talking about a sequel (june
20) with the original cast. The rift between MGM and Devlin/Emmerich
after the first film is still there. D/E wanted another feature
after the first film and MGM went into production of the series
instead.
Buzz: The debate is on... Devlin wants fans to write the studio
about a feature film with the original cast. Unknown if the two film
would film back to back or not.
STORM
Plot: Likely origin story about the X-Men Storm.
Players: Halle Berry
Director:
Script:
Studio:
Producers:
Budget: $75+ million
Status: In Development
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Fox and Marvel have expressed interest in taking Storm into
her own feature. It would not happen until 2005 or 2006, if it
does at all.
SUB MARINER (aka NAMOR)
Plot: To be based on the comic book character Prince Namor, the
Submariner.
Players: The Rock (being considered)
Director: Chris Columbus (Harry Potter)
Scribe: David Self (road to perdition)
Studio: Universal Studios
Producer: Avi Arad & Kevin Misher, 1492 Productions.
Budget: ???
Status: Fast Track
Release Date: 2004
Buzz: Script is complete, and it's now being fine tuned according to
Avi Arad. Universal is hot to get this one into production.
Budget could increase based on Cage starring.
SUCCUBUS
Plot: a horror film with comic elements.
Players:
Director: Steven Johnson (daredevil)
Script:
Studio: MGM
Producer: Steven Johnson & Gary Foster (Horshoe Bay)
Budget:
Status:
Release Date: 2005/2006
Buzz: This is a pitch from Steven Johnson, and will be his next
project after he finishes up with Ghost Rider.
SUPERGIRL (Likely depends on Superman)
Plot: Unknown as yet Players: TBD
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Status: Early Stages of development
Release Date: TBD
Buzz: Warner Bros. is planning to revisit 'Supergirl' to the big
screen. They will place 'Akiva Goldsman' at the helm. Akiva also
helmed Batman & Robin as well as Batman Forever for Warner. Latest
reports are that Supergirl could be done in the vein of 'La Femme
Nakita' and 'Buffy' cross.
SUPERMAN 5
Plot: TBD
Players: TBD
Director:
Script: JJ Abrahms
Release Date: 2006
Studio: Warner Bros.
Producers: Warner Bros.
Buzz: Five actors have backed out of the running. The script is
rumored to be aweful and as of March 16th Brett Ratner completed his
option and has backed out to work on Rush Hour 3.
TALISMAN
Plot: Based on the video game. a 12-year-old boy who goes on a
supernatural journey in order to find the talisman that can save his
dying mother.
Players: TBD
Director: Ed Zwick (last samurai) negotiating
Script:
Studio: Dreamworks
Producers: Steven Spielberg is executive producing; Kathleen
Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Colin Wilson are producing.
Budget: ???
Status: In Development
Release Date: 2005/2006
Buzz: : Zwick would replace Vadim Perelman (The House of Sand and
Fog), who fell off the project, May 7th.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Plot: Live action/CGI feature starring the half-shell heroes.
Players: Voices are undecided
Director: TBD
Script:
Studio:
Producers: Kevin Eastman
Budget: Around $70 million
Status: In Development
Release Date: 2007
Buzz: : The Turtles from Eastman and Laird is a billion dollar
franchise in movies, comics, and toys. Budget set for about $70M
Likely to become a new animated television series before the feature
film moves forward.
TERMINATOR 4
Plot: John Connor arises from the ashes. The T100 is
back, and out to see John Connor dead.
Players: Nick Stahl,
Director: TBD
Budget: TBD
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2007
Rumors: Australia being considered as the main location.
Arnold may just make a guest appearance only. He is unlikely to star in the film
this time. This film could be a tie-in to the newly proposed television
series.
TERMINATOR 5
Plot: The final installment of the franchise.
Players: Arnold Schwartzenegger,
Director: James Cameron
Script: James Cameron
Studio: C2 Productions
Producers: C2 Prod. (Mario Kassar & Andrew Vanja)
Budget: $200 million
Release Date: TBD
Rumors: Kassar & Vanja want Cameron back for the final chapter
in the franchise. They are willing to give Cameron a $20 million
dollar payday plus a percentage of the films gross. He'll also be
given full control of the film to with as he pleases.
THEY BITE
Plot: This Sci-Fi thriller
Players: TBD
Director: Dan O'Bannon
Script: Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Aliens vs Predator, Total Recall,
Farscape)
Studio
Producers: Brian Written & Rob Gallaghar (Gallagher Literary
Management)
Status: In Development
Release Date: 2008/2009
Buzz: None
THUNDERHEAD
Plot: A group of Archeologists are in the desert...
Players: Possibly Sandra Bullock and Estella Warren
Director: TBD
Studio: Gryphon Films
Status: Pre-Production (production to start late 2004)
Release Date: late 2004 or 2005
Buzz:
TITANIUM RAIN
Plot: the story will will center on an imperial guard (Chan) of the
Ming Dynasty, who chases a samurai for 400 years.
Players: Jackie Chan
Director: Stanley Tong
Studio: Media Asia
Status: Production
Release Date: 2005
Buzz: Production will take place in India, China and Hong Kong with
dialogue in English and Chinese.
TOTAL RECALL II (Might Happen Now)
Plot: Unknown for sure, but script is done.
Players: No Arnold
Director: TBD (Frakes is apparently out)
Status: Possible Develop as of 12.12.02
Release Date: TBD
Rumors: Studio is having the script redone in order to
cut filming/FX costs. Frake's version is dead. New life coming to
the project.
TOTEM
Plot: The horror film concerns a small town farmer and his family
that discover a scarecrow that "scares more than the crows.
Players: TBD
Director: Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000)
Script: Todd Farmer
Studio: Revolution Studio
Producer: William Sherak, Jason Shuman, and John Hegeman.
Budget: ???
Release Date: 2004
Status: Pre-Production
Buzz: Very Little.
The TOWER
Plot: Van Damme will play a retired race driver who falls into a
coma and has an out of body experience. He finds himself in a tower
with various levels of fear, love, hate, etc., and must fight his
way to the top chop-soky style as usual.
Players: Jean Claude Van Damme
Director: Jean Claude Van Damme
Studio: ???
Script: Jean Claude Van Damme
Status: Pre-Production
Release Date: 2004/2005
Buzz: Budgeted at $16M, this film is still likely to be a direct to
video release or a flopper at the box office.
TRANSFORMERS
Plot: The animated series comes to the big screen in a live action
movie. centers on two opposing factions of giant sentient
robots -- the peaceful Autobots and wily Decepticons -- that can morph into
various transportation vehicles and other odd devices.<
