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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures and New Regency are making a deal with Snow White And The Huntsman helmer Rupert Sanders to next direct The Juliet, an adaptation of the Alfred Bester short story that was developed by Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment at Sony. Henry Bean wrote the script.
Atlas’s Roven and Alex Gartner are producing with Frank Beddor of Automatic Pictures. The intention is to begin production in the spring. The film is story set in a near futuristic science fiction landscape. Sony and New Regency will co-finance and co-distribute, and New Regency will distribute the film through its existing distribution partnership with Fox. Sam Dickerman will shepherd the film on behalf on SPE and Kara Francis Smith for Regency.
Sanders made his directorial debut on Snow White And The Huntsman, the Universal film that grossed $400 million worldwide. Sanders is repped by CAA and Independent Talent.
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insert female lead joke here, no pun intended.
Huntsman was a good flick, this seems like a solid premise…
if The Juliet is based on Bester’s story “Time Is The Enemy” it is an excellent concept and should make a great movie
“Fondly Fahrenheit” and it’s already been made into a tv movie
the story can be remarkable, but screen version is not.
I have waited for a version of ‘Demolished Man’ for a long time, but I guess a watered-down adaptation of a short story – by the “visionary” Rupert Sanders – is a worthy substitute. Bester’s work is psychologically complex and morally challenging, and it requires more than a stale Ridley Scott-wannabe to capture the intelligence of Bester’s writing. Look I am not (that) stupid: I know that any science fiction requires a budget, and that Sanders – off a summer ‘hit’ – is hot enough, I guess, to get a studio interested. But I don’t understand what the point of taking material as interesting as Bester’s and giving it to Sanders, given that he has little flair for story.
based on “Fondly Fahrenheit” and already made into a TV movie
Oh so this is KStew’s next project right??
If Alex Gartner is involved it most certainly will be amazing. Oh wait, where’s JC?
SWATH was a joke only Charlize Theron delivers…