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Hot Scribe Dante Harper Takes On Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ For Sony And Roland Emmerich

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: Dante Harper, Henry Hobson, Isaac Asimov, John Scott 3, Roland Emmerich, Simon Kinberg, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has hired Dante Harper to adapt Foundation, the groundbreaking Isaac Asimov science fiction trilogy which Roland Emmerich is developing to direct. Emmerich has been attached since the studio acquired the property in early 2009 when he and former Centropolis partner Michael Wimer won a multi-studio auction as the rights became available. Originally published as a short story series in Astounding Magazine in 1942, Asimov’s Foundation is the complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. The protagonist is a psycho-historian who has an ability to read the future and sees that the empire will collapse imminently. He sets out to save the knowledge of mankind from being wiped out. Robert Rodat was first writer on the project.

Harper broke onto the scene with a Timothy McVeigh biopic called Dreamland that Plan B is producing. He wrote Black Hole for David Fincher at Paramount and did the production rewrite worl in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. Harper’s big sale came when his script All You Need is Kill was acquired by Warner Bros. The film is on a fast track, with Doug Liman directing. The studio is out to cast and the film is a priority. Harper is repped by CAA and Management 360.

This becomes the second major development on a work by the late Asimov. 20th Century Fox, which previously adapted Asimov’s I, Robot into the Will Smith hit, just hired director Henry Hobson, screenwriter John Scott 3 and producer Simon Kinberg to team on The Caves Of Steel, a futuristic murder mystery.

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20th Century Fox Sets Isaac Asimov’s ‘The Caves Of Steel,’ Henry Hobson To Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 3:33pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Henry Hobson, Isaac Asimov, John Scott 3, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox, which tapped into Isaac Asimov’s futuristic robot science fiction for I, Robot, is now working on a live-action adaptation of Asimov’s The Caves of Steel. The studio has set Henry Hobson to direct and John Scott 3 … Read More »

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Walking Dead Spec ‘Maggie’ Back On Market

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 11, 2011 @ 4:46pm PDTTags: Henry Hobson, John Scott 3, Maggie, Movie Deals, Movies, Timur Bekmambetov
Mike Fleming

Maggie, the John Scott 3-penned spec script about the six-week metamorphosis of a 16-year-old teenage girl into a zombie, is back on the market. The spec was close to a deal with Timur Bekmambetov (I’d heard it closed), but … Read More »

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Inventive Zombie Spec ‘Maggie’ Acquired By Timur Bekmambetov

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 31, 2011 @ 7:58pm PDTTags: Danny Boyle, Henry Hobson, John Scott 3, Maggie, Timur Bekmambetov, Verve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Timur Bekmambetov has won a spec auction for Maggie, a script that sparked a spirited auction today, with six bidders. Bekmambetov will produce a film that has a script by John Scott 3, and vfx wiz Henry Hobson set … Read More »

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