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Peter Berg to Direct Army of Two Video Game Adaptation
9 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Over the past few months, we've seen director Peter Berg drop out of a couple of upcoming projects including the robot boxing film Real Steel [1], and the remake of Frank Herbert's Dune [2]. Clearly he's in demand after directing Hancock, but what exactly has he been freeing up his schedule for? Well, we already know that he's going to be directing Universal's Battleship [3] movie, but now in addition to a board game movie, it looks like he has added a video game adaptation to his list of potential projects as well. Yay? A recent article in Variety [4] examines some of the properties that EA is licensing out to TV, movies and comics. Among them is the previously announced big screen version of Army of Two, about two mercenaries working for the U.S. military who get caught up in a political conspiracy in the Middle East. We knew that Scott Z. Burns »
- Sean
Aliens, Another Reason to Get Excited for Battleship
8 November 2009 10:10 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
I was trying to remain positive about this upcoming Battleship movie because I think director Peter Berg has the potential to be great, but he's making it really hard for me right now. Latino Review got the scoop a few days ago that the big bad in Battleship won't be Nazis, reverse vampires, or ominous looking pegs. Instead, it's aliens. With this news I'm getting the sinking feeling that we're not getting the promising Peter Berg who gave us The Rundown, The Kingdom, and helped bring the fantastic Friday Night Lights to television---instead, I'm envisioning the guy who gave us Hancock. That the film is coming from the brother writing team Jon and Erich Hoeber, they who gave us Whiteout, is no more heartening. Then again, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. What we're getting is a film adaptation of a Hasbro board game, and just like this year's G. »
- Devindra Hardawar
Battleship spoilers?
7 November 2009 1:20 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Warning: As the headline implies, there are potential and substantial spoilers below. When we first heard that Universal was making a movie based on the classic game Battleship, it led to some head-scratching. How did they figure out a way to transform random guesses and the insertion of plastic pegs into a compelling and family-friendly movie about naval combat? What was it that lured filmmaker Peter Berg (The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock), and made the studio confident enough to slot it... »
- Dave Davis
Peter Berg Will Not Direct “Dune”
30 October 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Director Peter Berg (”Friday Night Lights,” “The Kingdom,” “Hancock”) has left Paramount’s “Dune” remake.
According to reports the remake still is in the works, with Josh Zetumer (who is also writing the next “Bourne” movie) writing the script, and Paramount is searching for a new director.
Paramount is reportedly now eying Neill Blomkamp – “District 9” filmmaker and Neil Marshall, writer and director of “The Descent,” to replace him.
No reason has been cited for the Berg’s exit, but some sources suggest that he departed to work on a number of “dream projects” at Universal.
It was also reported that Twilight star Robert Pattinson was in talks in May to play in the update (though there was nothing official) but it is unclear if Pattinson still might join the project now that Berg has moved on.
“Dune” remake is in the works since 2007 and is still being developed – there »
- Fiona
Peter Berg Dropped from Dune, Replaced by Neil Marshall?
28 October 2009 3:39 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
I can’t say I’m entirely surprised by the new rumor that actor/writer/director Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom, the upcoming Battleship movie) is leaving the new film version of Frank Herbert’s Dune by the wayside. It’s a huge property that has not only been done before (twice), but it also doesn’t seem to lend itself to Berg’s knack for modern day urban action. It’d be really tough to shift from properties like Hancock and Friday Night Lights to this behemoth.
That said, it’s sort of sad to see the guy not stretching his wings a little bit. In the running, however, are two big names that roll off the tongue a little bit better when attached to the title.
Actually, neither of those run off the tongue very well, but their careers are »
- John Cooper
Berg ditches Dune
28 October 2009 2:39 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
It doesn't look like filmmaker Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Hancock) will be the guy to tell us the secret of the spice. According to Pajiba (and corroborated by Chud), Berg has left the adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi story Dune. But Paramount reportedly isn't ready to let the project sink into the sands of Arrakis -- they're on the hunt for a suitable replacement and have supposedly approached District 9's Neill Blomkamp and Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday).... »
- Dave Davis
Peter Berg is Off of Dune; Paramount Wants Neill Blomkamp
28 October 2009 11:47 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
As we've known for at least a year, Paramount has been trying to develop another take on Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi classic Dune, originally attaching The Kingdom director Peter Berg. Since then, we've heard off and on from Berg, including this most recent update from September where he revealed that it would be a PG-13 "massive epic," which was a step in the right direction. Movie blog Pajiba is now reporting that Berg has left the project and "his Film 44 production company backed out." Now Paramount is scrambling to find a new director." According to them, District 9's Neill Blomkamp is one of only two alternatives. The first question is why this blog would be reporting on Dune. Well, apparently there was a rumor in the summer that Robert Pattinson (ugh) was being considered for one of the lead roles, and they confirmed in their update that »
- Alex Billington
Dune Director And Paramount Split
28 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Depending on how you feel about Peter Berg directing the upcoming adaptation of Dune, you'll either cheer or weep at this piece of news. A bit of somewhat solid sounding reporting has come out of Pajiba, telling us that Peter Berg has straight up dropped off the project, leaving Paramount on the hunt for a new helmer. Berg has proven himself in the action world with the Middle Eastern actioner The Kingdom, but there's no real sci-fi anywhere on his resume that gets me at all excited about his involvement with Dune. However, there are two potential heirs to the Dune throne, and both of them are enough to make sci-fi nerd-dom squeal with delight. The two candidates are all kinds of Neil, with Neill Blomkamp and Neil Marshall both getting scripts sent out to them. According to Pajiba's so-called source, The Hollywood Cog, Marshall (The Descent and the upcoming »
Dune Director and Paramount are SplitsBERG
28 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Depending on how you feel about Peter Berg directing the upcoming adaptation of Dune, you'll either cheer or weep at this piece of news. A bit of somewhat solid sounding reporting has come out of Pajiba, telling us that Peter Berg has straight up dropped off the project, leaving Paramount on the hunt for a new helmer. Berg has proven himself in the action world with the Middle Eastern actioner The Kingdom, but there's no real sci-fi anywhere on his resume that gets me at all excited about his involvement with Dune. However, there are two potential heirs to the Dune throne, and both of them are enough to make sci-fi nerd-dom squeal with delight. The two candidates are all kinds of Neil, with Neill Blomkamp and Neil Marshall both getting scripts sent out to them. According to Pajiba's so-called source, The Hollywood Cog, Marshall (The Descent and the upcoming »
Law Abiding Citizen (review)
15 October 2009 9:43 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
It had me at kaboom, this thorny moral conundrum of a film, and kept me for a long time. Kept me wondering who was the good guy and who was the villain until I started to dare to believe that maybe this would be the rare studio film that doesn’t feel the need to break things down so prettily. Kept me marveling at how the gray areas were staying gray and the complicated, no-easy-answers stuff kept getting more complicated. And then it lost me, nay, threw me overboard when it threw out all the tricksy pointedness and threw its lot in with those who are willing to throw out the baby of the American legal system with the bathwater of its problems. It’s all about the brokenness of our criminal justice system, this Law Abiding Citizen flick, which anyone can see is broken to the point at which »
- MaryAnn Johanson
New World War Z Script on Its Way
7 October 2009 9:59 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster surprised everyone when he turned down another Bond flick to direct the adaptation of Max Brooks' best-selling novel World War Z. A script from J. Michael Staczynski was already in place and had been hailed as "a horror epic, a serious, sober-minded adult picture waiting to be made" and "a genre-defining piece of work" by an AICN script review. Straczynski himself described it as a "thriller" along the lines of Bourne Identity. You know, but with zombies.
Forster disagreed, however, claiming the script was "far from realization" and decided to make the thriller Disconnect before starting work on World War Z. Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom) was brought in to work on another draft in the meantime.
All of this was confusing to Brooks, who recently told MTV that he doesn't understand why Carnahan was brought in to work on a script he already thought was "brilliant. »
- Ryan Gowland
World War Z still a go?
6 October 2009 2:38 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
MTV is reporting that in a recent talk with World War Z author Max Brooks, he reports that the next script draft will be coming in the next few weeks. The original script, which Brooks loved, was written by Michael Straczynski (our script review here) and more recently, "The Kingdom" writer Matthew Michael Carnahan had been brought in to do... something with the script.
After seeing Zombieland, I can say I'm excited for another big budget zombie flick.. but having Marc Forster (Quantom of Solace) direct? That really doesn't inspire confidence. »
New World War Z Script To Arrive in a Few Weeks
6 October 2009 10:52 AM, PDT | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »
World War Z really looked like it was on its way when Quantum of Solace Marc Forster joined the production. The adaptation of Max Brooks' novel had a script from J. Michael Staczynski that Brooks praised publicly. Forster, however, disagreed, claiming the script was "far from realization" and started making another movie instead. Another draft was assigned to Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), though Brooks told MTV he's not sure what Carnahan is doing to the script.
You know... the studio comes in and gives their notes and Forster came in and gave his notes. Carnahan was brought in for reasons unbeknownst to me. Maybe he's doing a polish, maybe he's doing a top-down rewrite. I know that his draft is supposed to come in in the next few weeks.
The next few weeks is a relief, though Brooks still didn't see anything wrong with the original draft.
I read Straczynski's first draft, »
- (Fulci)
A New 'World War Z' Script Due 'In The Next Few Weeks,' Says Author Max Brooks
5 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
If you haven't read it, "World War Z" is one of the sharpest books to be released in the past decade. Set in a grim possible future, the book is presented as a series of interviews with survivors of a globe-spanning zombie war, an incident which very nearly brought about the downfall of human society. Author Max Brooks, the son of Hollywood filmmaker Mel Brooks, employs the full spectrum of commentary to create a frighteningly believable scenario in which the human race responds to a complete societal breakdown.
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Brooks, who is busy promoting his upcoming appearance on the Starz Inside special Zombiemania, premiering October 13 at 10pm. He was more than happy to discuss the adaptation plans for "Z," which was picked up by Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment a few years ago.
First, some back story may be in order. »
- Adam Rosenberg
Overture Announces Cast for Let Me In
1 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Overture Films has issued a press release confirming the official cast members of Matt Reeves Let Me In , the remake of Tomas Alfredson's beloved Let The Right One In . (That Fish Head title seriously has to be just a shooting title) Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Oscar®-nominee Richard Jenkins ( The Kingdom ) will headline the cast of Let Me In , when principal photography begins this fall in New Mexico. The announcement was made today by Hammer Films Co-ceo's Simon Oakes and Nigel Sinclair, as well as Overture Films CEO Chris McGurk and COO Danny Rosett. Director Reeves ( Cloverfield ) has cast Smit-McPhee ( The Road ) and Moretz ( (500) Days of Summer ) in the two lead adolescent roles of Owen and Abby for the eagerly awaited horror feature. Jenkins will play... »
Battleship: The Movie – Sink Or Swim?
16 September 2009 1:19 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
No, that title is not a misprint. It turns out that a film based on the popular naval strategy game is still moving forward.
You know the Battleship game right? The one where two people sit on either side of a plastic toy calling out “co-ordinates” to sink each other’s “battleships”.
Of course a film based on a toy isn’t a new thing. Transformers has done pretty well for itself and cluedo has been adapted in the past. Even Ridley Scott has been banging on about a film based on Monopoly for ages!
I’m not sure what to think about this one to be honest. The game doesn’t have any characters to speak of so right from the start there isn’t anyone familiar for an audience to connect with. Nobody like an Optimus Prime or a G.I. Joe remotely inhabit the game which means »
- Alex Wagner
Night at the Museum director now has Real Steel
16 September 2009 12:01 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
Real Steel, a futuristic movie about robots boxing each other when the sport has been outlawed for humans, has lost a director but gained another director. The man who has left the project is Peter Berg, director of Hancock and The Kingdom. He just signed on the dotted line to deliver Universal its Battleship movie for July 1, 2011. Put another way, Berg chose to go make a movie based on a well-known board game instead of a copycat of Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots. Only in Hollywood could a man who makes millions of dollars be forced to make this kind of choice, right?
The new director attached to DreamWorks' Real Steel is Shawn Levy, the guy that brought us the two Night at the Museum films. The difference between the kind of film that Berg makes versus the kind of picture that Levy does is pretty evident if you've seen some of their work. »
- Patrick Sauriol
Shawn Levy to Direct Futuristic Battling Robots in Real Steel
15 September 2009 7:59 PM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
Battling robots? You mean like Rock’em Sock’em Robots? Um, not quite. The movie is called “Real Steel”, and at one point “The Kingdom” director Peter Berg was attached. Berg has now moved on, leaving the space open for Shawn Levy. The idea behind the futuristic actioner sounds cool enough, but there are some caveats. For one, Peter Berg directing a futuristic sci-fi action movie about battling robots would have been the height of gritty sci-fi action cool. Shawn Levy? The man behind the “Night at the Museum” movies? Hmmm. Even the THR article mentions a potential “change in tone” for the movie. I.e. from serious to more kiddie action-adventure. There’s nothing wrong with that, but check out the premise for “Real Steel”, and tell me what you would prefer: [The "Real Steel"] story line takes place in a near future where human boxing has been outlawed, and heavy, humanoid »
- Nix
'Battleship' Sets A Course For July 2011 With Peter Berg At The Helm
15 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
The word emerged today that director Peter Berg's adaptation of the Hasbro board game "Battleship" will sail into theaters on July 1, 2011, according to a report in Variety. Berg described his adaptation as "a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle." It's worth noting that he didn't actually name the aggressors, so it could be anything from terrorists to aliens and beyond. Given Berg's background -- "Hancock," "The Kingdom," "The Rundown" -- it could really be anything.
Last week, the MTV's Eric Ditzian had a little chat with the director, and he was all too excited to discuss his upcoming board game adaptation. When Eric expressed skepticism about the feasability of adapting a game of this sort for the big screen, Berg jumped quickly to dismiss any concerns.
"That's what we do man. It's our job to crack these things... and they're very crackable, »
- Adam Rosenberg
Battleship hits Berg
14 September 2009 4:48 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
B7. Miss! C9. You sunk my interest! Studios are apparently quite serious about exploiting every possible brand and franchise, and so a movie based on the classic game Battleship is setting sail, with filmmaker Peter Berg (The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock) on the bridge. Universal and Berg have presumably figured out a way to transform random guesses and the insertion of plastic pegs into a compelling and family-friendly movie about naval combat... and they want it firing cannons on screens... »
- Dave Davis
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