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Bradbury, L'Engle Honored
Legendary SF author Ray Bradbury visited the White House on Nov. 17 to collect his National Medal of Arts, the Washington Post reported. Madeleine L'Engle, the author of the classic children's SF book A Wrinkle in Time, was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
"This is the happiest day in my life," Bradbury told the newspaper. "I started from nothing. It was a long haul, and now I'm here."
Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, was one of the 16 leaders in the arts and humanities (14 individuals and two organizations) saluted in an Oval Office ceremony by President Bush. Other recipients included Carlisle Floyd, Twyla Tharp, Anne Tatlock of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and John Ruthven, the newspaper reported.
L'Engle was unable to attend the White House ceremony and was represented by her granddaughter Charlotte Jones, the newspaper reported.
Rocker Lee Talks Narnia
Amy Lee, singer in the rock band Evanescence, told MTV that she will provide music for Disney's upcoming book-to-film adaptation The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, according to a report on ComingSoon.net. Lee said that she was a fan of C.S. Lewis' books, about four children who discover a magical land in the clutches of an evil witch.
"I love the kind of stranger children's stuff," Lee told the music network. "I think that's very much what our music is inspired by. Not only death and the morbid stuff, but that it comes from the perspective of a child and things relating to childhood, because that's what I went through."
Lee was offered a small role in the film, currently in production in New Zealand. "They were like, 'Do you want to do a cameo?'" she said. "And I was like, 'Hell, yeah! Let me die. I want to be somebody who gets murdered.' So I don't think that's going to happen."
Me worried about the movie in general? Oh yes.
Raimi Raises Dead Again
Spider-Man 2 director Sam Raimi and his Evil Dead producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell will remake the 1981 cult hit that launched their careers, Variety reported. Raimi wrote, directed and produced The Evil Dead, which tells the story of five friends holed up in a remote cabin who discover a Book of the Dead that raises demons.
Raimi will not direct the remake and is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written, the trade paper reported. The movie will be produced by Ghost House Pictures, the joint venture of Raimi, Tapert and Senator International. The original movie spawned Evil Dead II (which was essentially a remake of the first film) and Army of Darkness, all of which starred Campbell as the demon-fighting Ash.
..um, odd? Why remake the films??? *sniff* You can replace Bruce Campbell! Thats horror movie sacrilege!
New Flash Returns To Roots
Producer Bob Ducsay, who is developing an updated Flash Gordon movie with Van Helsing director Stephen Sommers, told Now Playing Magazine that he envisions a return to the venerable SF serial's roots and not a reprise of the campy 1980s movie. "It in fact is actually going back to a lot more of the original source material for Flash and is not based on the 1980 movie," Ducsay told the magazine. "And tonally, as sort of broad entertainments as the films we make are, clearly we haven't ever worked at that level of camp. So we're not moving in that direction at all. There's all kinds of material. There's comics. There's serials. So all of those things provide source material."
Ducsay worked with Sommers on the two Mummy movies as well as on this year's Van Helsing. He added that it's still unclear who will actually write or direct Flash Gordon. "[Sommers] is not committed to directing," Ducsay said. "What really happens is he comes across a screenplay or he writes a screenplay that he's interested in. And it really always comes down to the script, and since these things are works in progress, it's really hard to say. For him as a director, I don't think he's really settled on what it is that he's going to do next."
Teehee, What is remembered from the film from the 80s? FLASH! OOooh!! QUEEN!!
Roth Talks Next Project
Veteran film producer Joe Roth (The Forgotten) told SCI FI Wire that his company, Revolution Studios, is moving forward with Next, a big-screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "The Golden Man." Roth added that he is undaunted by the spotty track record of recent Dick-inspired films, such as Impostor, Minority Report and Paycheck. Nicolas Cage (Face/Off) has signed on to star in the SF film, which Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) will direct.
"I don't look at these things as an anthology or a collection," Roth said in an interview. "I only look at the screenplay I read." Roth added, "What worked about the screenplay is in the title: the notion that someone can actually see what's about to happen next [and thus change the future]. And it's the curse of that and how valuable that is to people who want to misuse it. In this case, there are governments. It's that conflict."
Roth praised Tamahori and Cage. "I think that Lee is a really interesting director, and Nic is a very interesting actor who can play both an action figure and kind of a tortured guy," he said. "It certainly felt like it worked for me." Gary Goldman, who previously wrote 1990's Total Recall based on Dick's story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," adapted "The Golden Man." Production will begin next year with an eye toward a 2006 release.
Bradbury, L'Engle Honored
Legendary SF author Ray Bradbury visited the White House on Nov. 17 to collect his National Medal of Arts, the Washington Post reported. Madeleine L'Engle, the author of the classic children's SF book A Wrinkle in Time, was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
"This is the happiest day in my life," Bradbury told the newspaper. "I started from nothing. It was a long haul, and now I'm here."
Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, was one of the 16 leaders in the arts and humanities (14 individuals and two organizations) saluted in an Oval Office ceremony by President Bush. Other recipients included Carlisle Floyd, Twyla Tharp, Anne Tatlock of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and John Ruthven, the newspaper reported.
L'Engle was unable to attend the White House ceremony and was represented by her granddaughter Charlotte Jones, the newspaper reported.
Rocker Lee Talks Narnia
Amy Lee, singer in the rock band Evanescence, told MTV that she will provide music for Disney's upcoming book-to-film adaptation The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, according to a report on ComingSoon.net. Lee said that she was a fan of C.S. Lewis' books, about four children who discover a magical land in the clutches of an evil witch.
"I love the kind of stranger children's stuff," Lee told the music network. "I think that's very much what our music is inspired by. Not only death and the morbid stuff, but that it comes from the perspective of a child and things relating to childhood, because that's what I went through."
Lee was offered a small role in the film, currently in production in New Zealand. "They were like, 'Do you want to do a cameo?'" she said. "And I was like, 'Hell, yeah! Let me die. I want to be somebody who gets murdered.' So I don't think that's going to happen."
Me worried about the movie in general? Oh yes.
Raimi Raises Dead Again
Spider-Man 2 director Sam Raimi and his Evil Dead producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell will remake the 1981 cult hit that launched their careers, Variety reported. Raimi wrote, directed and produced The Evil Dead, which tells the story of five friends holed up in a remote cabin who discover a Book of the Dead that raises demons.
Raimi will not direct the remake and is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written, the trade paper reported. The movie will be produced by Ghost House Pictures, the joint venture of Raimi, Tapert and Senator International. The original movie spawned Evil Dead II (which was essentially a remake of the first film) and Army of Darkness, all of which starred Campbell as the demon-fighting Ash.
..um, odd? Why remake the films??? *sniff* You can replace Bruce Campbell! Thats horror movie sacrilege!
New Flash Returns To Roots
Producer Bob Ducsay, who is developing an updated Flash Gordon movie with Van Helsing director Stephen Sommers, told Now Playing Magazine that he envisions a return to the venerable SF serial's roots and not a reprise of the campy 1980s movie. "It in fact is actually going back to a lot more of the original source material for Flash and is not based on the 1980 movie," Ducsay told the magazine. "And tonally, as sort of broad entertainments as the films we make are, clearly we haven't ever worked at that level of camp. So we're not moving in that direction at all. There's all kinds of material. There's comics. There's serials. So all of those things provide source material."
Ducsay worked with Sommers on the two Mummy movies as well as on this year's Van Helsing. He added that it's still unclear who will actually write or direct Flash Gordon. "[Sommers] is not committed to directing," Ducsay said. "What really happens is he comes across a screenplay or he writes a screenplay that he's interested in. And it really always comes down to the script, and since these things are works in progress, it's really hard to say. For him as a director, I don't think he's really settled on what it is that he's going to do next."
Teehee, What is remembered from the film from the 80s? FLASH! OOooh!! QUEEN!!
Roth Talks Next Project
Veteran film producer Joe Roth (The Forgotten) told SCI FI Wire that his company, Revolution Studios, is moving forward with Next, a big-screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story "The Golden Man." Roth added that he is undaunted by the spotty track record of recent Dick-inspired films, such as Impostor, Minority Report and Paycheck. Nicolas Cage (Face/Off) has signed on to star in the SF film, which Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) will direct.
"I don't look at these things as an anthology or a collection," Roth said in an interview. "I only look at the screenplay I read." Roth added, "What worked about the screenplay is in the title: the notion that someone can actually see what's about to happen next [and thus change the future]. And it's the curse of that and how valuable that is to people who want to misuse it. In this case, there are governments. It's that conflict."
Roth praised Tamahori and Cage. "I think that Lee is a really interesting director, and Nic is a very interesting actor who can play both an action figure and kind of a tortured guy," he said. "It certainly felt like it worked for me." Gary Goldman, who previously wrote 1990's Total Recall based on Dick's story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," adapted "The Golden Man." Production will begin next year with an eye toward a 2006 release.
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