Joel Silver is talking about all of them over at Comics2Film, including an update on that Body Snatchers revisitisation or whatever made up name they’re using to describe a remake these days.
First up Wonder Woman…
“Joss Whedon’s writing the script and he’s really into it,”…Of casting the famous Amazon, he adds, “She’s young in the movie. I don’t know if it’s gonna be somebody that we’ve heard of, but it might be.”
…then let’s try Logan’s Run…
“Bryan, who is a very, very smart guy, a very talented guy, had been passionate about ‘Logan’s Run’ for years, going back to the original book,” Silver says. “He really sees it as something that’s very right on the money for today and he’s got a great vision for the movie and if all goes well, we’ll be shooting that movie in about a year.”
“The movie is remarkable,” Silver swears. “…James directed it, he got great performances, but it’s their vision. They designed the movie. It’s a really incredible movie. People are really gonna be blown away by it. It’s big.”…”We finished the movie in August and the boys wanted to have the movie come out to coincide with Guy Fawkes Day…which is a one-territory holiday and it was unbelievably oppressive to give the movie done in time for that day…It just was impossible.”
…what about that Body Snatchers remake, re-visit, re-…whatever?…
“The Visiting,”…will be released next summer…”It has the essence of a kind of insidious alien invasion, but it doesn’t have anything to do with pods or anything like that,” Silver says. “It’s much more of an original idea, but it does take some notion from that original book, the Jack Finney book. He’s making a dark, eerie picture.”
Some good news here, and it does sound promising for Vendetta, there’s more and more good news coming out about this movie, I just hope it’s all true. It would have been great for a Guy Fawkes release date in the UK – that’s the celebration of that very man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliment, on which you could say some of the lead character is based.
I’m also really excited to hear about a Logan’s Run remake, but my purist Father who loves that movie won’t be! What about you? Any good or bad news here?
