ShannonA
05-30-2007, 06:32 PM
Empire reports that the Weitz brothers are moving from The Golden Compass to Elric
So his adaptation of The Golden Compass is already being hyped by studio New Line as the new Lord Of The Rings (rather inaccurately if you ask us, since the books share little in common). But that’s not enough fantasy limelight for the guy who, up until now, was best known for small-scale comedies like American Pie and About A Boy. Nope, along with his brother and former co-director Paul, Chris Weitz is going to take on the biggest fantasty-literature property as yet untouched by movieland: Michael Moorcock’s Elric saga.
That's from http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20750
As I'd hoped, The Golden Compass is going to be a Christmas release, coming out on December 7. I love me to have my big-screen fantasy for Christmas.
Here's more at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials:_The_Golden_Compass
With Elric being in such an early stage, maybe we'll see it Christmas 2008 or Summer 2009?
There's also some rumormongering that Neil Gaiman is going to be directing Death: The High Cost of Living himself, though I wouldn't hold my breath on that one, given that a movie's been promised for something like a decade.
Later this year - if all goes well - Neil Gaiman will be directing his first feature film. It's an adaptation of his Death: The High Cost of Living mini-series, and - of course - he's scripted it.
From http://www.filmick.co.uk/2007/05/want-to-know-who-is-going-to-play-neil.html
So his adaptation of The Golden Compass is already being hyped by studio New Line as the new Lord Of The Rings (rather inaccurately if you ask us, since the books share little in common). But that’s not enough fantasy limelight for the guy who, up until now, was best known for small-scale comedies like American Pie and About A Boy. Nope, along with his brother and former co-director Paul, Chris Weitz is going to take on the biggest fantasty-literature property as yet untouched by movieland: Michael Moorcock’s Elric saga.
That's from http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20750
As I'd hoped, The Golden Compass is going to be a Christmas release, coming out on December 7. I love me to have my big-screen fantasy for Christmas.
Here's more at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials:_The_Golden_Compass
With Elric being in such an early stage, maybe we'll see it Christmas 2008 or Summer 2009?
There's also some rumormongering that Neil Gaiman is going to be directing Death: The High Cost of Living himself, though I wouldn't hold my breath on that one, given that a movie's been promised for something like a decade.
Later this year - if all goes well - Neil Gaiman will be directing his first feature film. It's an adaptation of his Death: The High Cost of Living mini-series, and - of course - he's scripted it.
From http://www.filmick.co.uk/2007/05/want-to-know-who-is-going-to-play-neil.html