 | | Guy Ritchie wants to create a mystery. He has signed to direct Warner Bros’ ‘Sherlock Holmes.’
The studio wants to release the detective feature in 2010 and would like to display a more adventurous Holmes. Apparently he will be boxing and sword fighting, like in the new comic book. Is this the same pipe-smoking Sherlock Holmes we are talking about?
The character, created by writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the 19th century, featured in over 200 films and TV shows since his first book. Guy Ritchie will also rewrite and polish the script by Tony Peckham.
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I don’t want to start bashing a movie before it’s out, but Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes thought it would be a good idea to make a ‘Ouija’ movie. I think there’s a reason why the board wasn’t the subject of any movie during the over 100 years of its existence, but maybe there’s a story in there somewhere. The board of course had several cameos in recent years, so you might as well fill a whole movie with it.
David Berenbaum will write the screenplay. Going by his track record (’The Spiderwick Chronicles’ and ‘The Haunted Mansion’) this won’t be a critical hit, nor a box office one. Or am I being too critical here? No further words on possible production or release dates.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
It was Monday morning. Steven Spielberg just made himself a cup a coffee when the phone started to ring. He picked up and said nothing. The man on the other side was silent too, but then asked, “Steven…?” “Yes,” Spielberg answered. “311 million,” the voice said. I imagine Spielberg dancing around in his bathrobe after these words, but that’s just speculation on my part.
This is the actual ritual Steven Spielberg has during his opening weekends. “What I do on opening weekend is my ritual is a total blackout, like a sequestered jury. No radio, no telephone, no internet, no newspapers. I don’t want to hear anything until Monday morning. I just want to hear one number, which is the Monday morning number,” Spielberg said.
I wonder what he does in the meantime. You’ll need some discipline to go a whole Memorial Day weekend without telephone, internet or radio. I can imagine some teenage girls rather killing themselves than spending one weekend without it. But I guess Spielberg has enough toys to keep him happy.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
We all know Quentin Tarantino is working on his World War II movie ‘Inglorious Bastards,’ but nobody really knew when it was coming out. Now, the man himself wants it to be ready for Cannes 2009. “The next movie I’m doing is my World War II movie. I just finished up the first draft and if all goes well, I will be here, in Cannes, in 2009 with Inglorious Bastards!” The crowd went wild after that, leaving several people severely injured, I imagine.
But to be reasonable, he’s made a couple of remarks like this before. So I don’t think anybody is really expecting his new movie to be there at Cannes next year. In 2005 Tarantino said he had finished the script, but had to convert it to a ’shooting script.’
May 27th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
