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EXCLUSIVE: Fair Game director Doug Liman is circling All You Need Is Kill, the Dante Harper-scripted adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka drama which Warner Bros acquired in a 7-figure spec deal this spring. The rumors of this pending deal come as suspicion builds that Warner Bros might well be cooling on its The Three Musketeers project, which will get beaten to the start line by rival The Three Musketeers project that Paul W. S. Anderson will direct this summer in 3D that Constantin Film will finance (and produce with Impact Pictures), with Summit Entertainment distributing in the U.S. Meetings are happening this week between Liman and Warner Bros to lock down the other job.
In All You Need is Kill, a soldier pressed into battle against a superior alien species, gets killed in action, and relives his last day alive over and over. Eventually, he sees things change, he becomes a better warrior and discovers hints that might be the key to altering the outcome. Numerous directors have met on the project recently, including Sam Raimi before he landed on Disney’s The Great and Powerful Oz.
Warner Bros won’t necessarily kill its Musketeers project, but there is no sense in rushing to finish 2nd in a race when the project can be made later on down the line in an unhurried stroll.
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I liked it the first time, when it was called Groundhog Day.
Alright, maybe that’s a bit unfair, but the basic kernal of the idea is the same.
The recent movie ‘Killers’ could be better accused of being a rehashing of ‘True Lies’ and ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ I suppose.
I hope they don’t do another 3 Musketeers. I never understand why 2 studios would make the same movie at the smae time. Remember ‘Tombstone’ and ‘Wyatt Earp’? OR those two Volcano movies that came out at the same time? Can someone within the movie industry explain what the logic is there?
Sounds like “Groundhog Day” meets “Independence Day.”
Wow, All You Need Is Kill’s premise sounds a lot like Source Code’s premise. Interesting.
Just read the script for AYNIK. The Groundhog Day gimmick gets old very quickly despite Harper’s obvious talent and passion for the material. Once the pattern is established the drama takes a serious nosedive (protagonist can’t die so the events are largely without consequence). You are left wanting to jump ahead to the end to rejoin the action when the broken record stops skipping. If I were the one who paid seven figures I’d be sweating a little frankly. It will take nearly flawless execution by the director to pull it off IMHO.
Methinks we need a 3D Muskateers happy meal firstly.
Nah–GROUNDHOG DAY crossed with AVATAR.
AYNIK is mildly entertaining at best. The script starts off great but the repetitive nature leaves a lot to be desired and the love story is very forced and inorganic. That might not be the script’s fault, it could’ve come from the book, but what’s the most disappointing is that there’s so much potential here but the story falls well short of being consistently engaging throughout. Oh, and it’s gonna cost about $125-150M to make, and with little to discover in the film, after a $39M-$47M opening and a 52% drop off the following weekend, the film will land somewhere between $165M-$200M worldwide, which isn’t that great for a $150M+ investment. Comparatively, DISTRICT 9, produced for about $30-35M, grossed just over $200M worldwide and was WAY more inventive and original than AYNIK.
Needless to say, this is a great example of yet another studio picture turning audiences off and lowering attendance for yet another summer. Go creative Harvard MBA’s!!!
District 9 was hugely entertaining, cost-effective, profitable, critically-acclaimed, and had something to say.
And was, of course, not made in Hollywood.
well-crunched.
I’ve read the script for this and enjoyed it. But the real question here isn’t who will direct it, but who will star?
The script reads like a vehicle for Zac Effron (and with his new producing deal at WB all the more) but it would take some balls on WB’s part to stick him in a big budget sci-fi actioner at this point.
Does the young male audience know or really care that much about Effron at this point? I’m sure WB can change this, but is this project the one to do it?
“Does the young male audience know or really care that much about Effron”
no.
Efron has made some progress in 17 Again. But mostly he’s known as the guy everybody’s girl drools over. But if WB wants him to be taken seriously in films like the upcoming Snabba Cash remake, they might want to help him build some awareness in the male audience before that.
This is just current-level genres retreaded, there is no game-changer here, and likely, a step backward on an expensive scale. Pop-junk like ‘Jumpers.’ We need a black swan to come out of nowhere to alter the industry’s POV, not more shakey-cam action acquittals that imitate ADD. When will ideas take over from technique?
Both Source Code and AYNIK pull from the same material. And both are boring as hell reads. Jake G is not a leading man, prince of Pakistan proved that. And I hope that Abduction had a thorough re-write. That script was a mess.
AYNIK is a financial disaster waiting to happen.
Hugely expensive to put on the screen and very little original content to sell it with once you have. Harper’s script is a bit of a shell game, not so much telling a story as it is using story to hide the limitations of its own conceit. In trailers, the movie will end up looking like a Terminator/Avatar knockoff with a silly time loop. The very device that got the script sold will be the reason the movie fails. I hope I am wrong because I love sci-fi and keep wishing for a cool new franchise. But I can’t see how AYNIK has any legs. I suspect deep down Dante knows he sold WB a stylish bag of smoke.
No idea’s original, so knocking off Terminator/Avatar is a good place to be. I disagree that the script doesn’t tell a story — it’s about falling and getting back up, refining your approach. It does get a bit wearisome but that could be fixed with more variation between each battle, and perhaps lowering the number of chances (seems a bit overkill to happen 300+ times). The loop is a very marketable premise, particularly to the male demographic who play or grew up playing videogames and love action sequences. Front and center in marketing materials, it could be the reason the movie succeeds.
Many of you are right as to the overdone nature of the underlying concept. It will all come down to execution.
BTW, besides GROUNDHOG DAY, anyone remember the episode of TNG where 1701D kept colliding (and “dying”) with Kelsey Grammar’s ship over and over until they could all figure out how to avoid repetitive death?
And wasn’t dying over and over and coming back again and again the basis of Doomsday’s schtick?
Well, it’s not just about the recipe, but the chef as well….
Like “Groundhog Day,” Hollywood is doomed to make the same expensive and boring movie over-and-over again until some “visionary” (any director who realizes directing means imagineering) comes out of the soup to lead the way.
Yes, Aware, that ep of TNG was BRILLIANT and by far one of the best of that series. There is a way to do mind-bending sci-fi psychological thrillers, folks. Execution is everything.