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Fox And James Cameron Tap Shawn Levy For 3D ‘Fantastic Voyage’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 7, 2011 @ 7:43am PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, Darren Aronofsky, Deadliest Warrior, Fantastic Voyage, James Cameron, Laeta Kalogridis, Louis Leterrier, Movie Deals, Movies, Paul Greengrass, Shane Salerno, Shawn Levy, Spike TV, Steve Carell, Timur Bekmambetov, Tina Fey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has set Shawn Levy to direct Fantastic Voyage, the James Cameron-produced 3D tent pole film. I’m told that Levy has boarded the re-imagining of the 1966 original about a team of scientists shrunk into a ship in an attempt to save a colleague’s life. Fox and Cameron have been moving cautiously on a big budget film that, from early in the script once they go inside the body, is almost exclusively CGI. The script is by Shane Salerno, with Laeta Kalogridis working on a polish.

The directing job has been one of the big open slots out there since Paul Greengrass ended a flirtation with the picture last year. I’m told that helmers like Darren Aronofsky, Timur Bekmambetov, Jonathan Mostow and Louis Leterrier met with Cameron. Levy is an unexpected choice, but he is a Fox favorite who is broadening beyond comedies into bigger fare.

He has a strong commercial instinct, and made Fox a fortune with the Night at the Museum franchise and before that Cheaper By the Dozen and What Happens in Vegas, which led the film to re-up his 21 Laps banner last year for another 3 years. He last directed the Tina Fey-Steve Carell comedy Date Night for Fox. Levy most recently directed the hi-tech action film Real Steel for DreamWorks with Hugh Jackman and recently signing on for another action adventure picture with the star for Fox. He also set up a feature version of the Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior at Fox through his 21 Laps banner as a possible directing vehicle on a film now being scripted by John D. Payne and Patrick McKay. Levy is repped by WME.

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Spike TV Picks Up ‘Most Lethal’ Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 3, 2010 @ 7:07am PDTTags: Cable TV, Deadliest Warrior, Reality TV, Spike TV, TV, TV Deals, Unscripted TV
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV has greenlighted Most Lethal, a new unscripted series that should be a suitable companion to the channel’s popular Deadliest Warrior reality series. In Most Lethal, 12 real-life warriors from the top tiers of special operation forces faceoff in a grueling competition to determine who is the fiercest and … Read More »

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‘Deadliest Warrior’ From TV To Big Screen

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 15, 2010 @ 3:40pm PDTTags: Dan Levine, Deadliest Warrior, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Shawn Levy, Spike TV, Unscripted
Mike Fleming

Paramount Pictures and sister company Spike TV are joining forces to turn the cable channel’s series Deadliest Warrior into a feature film. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce through his 21 Laps banner. Levy might direct. The show … Read More »

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Spike TV Picks Up ‘Deadliest Warrior’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 16, 2010 @ 9:36am PDTTags: Cable TV, Deadliest Warrior, Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV has renewed its flagship series Deadliest Warrior for a third season. The 10-episode third season will premiere in Summer 2011. Mack, a Navy SEAL and former host and producer of Future Weapons and Weapons That Changed The World, joins the cast for Season 3. He joins series regulars … Read More »

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