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Edgar Wright To Direct Paramount’s ‘Collider,’ Mark Protosevich To Write

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 23, 2012 @ 3:35pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Edgar Wright, JJ Abrams, Mark Protosevich, Paramount Pictures
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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is mobilizing a sci-fi film called Collider, and it is a collision of several of the top guys in the genre. Edgar Wright will direct the film, and he is co-writing the script with I Am Legend‘s Mark Protosevich. Wright is producing with his longtime Big Talk Productions partner Nira Park and JJ Abrams through his Bad Robot banner.

Like with all Bad Robot fare, a log line was tough to get. The deal comes after Protosevich scripted the Oldboy remake that Spike Lee will direct with Josh Brolin (Protosevich is co-producer), and he also got story credit on Thor and scripted the video game transfer Mass Effect for Legendary.

JJ Abrams Collider MovieWright, meanwhile, next directs The World’s End with his cohorts Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and he certainly perked up Marvel’s Comic-Con Hall H panel when he revealed some rough test-shot footage from Ant-Man, one of the next Marvel live-action films in the offing which Wright will direct. Protosevich and Wright are repped by CAA, and Wright is managed by Anonymous Content.

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Spike Lee To Direct ‘Oldboy’ For Mandate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 11, 2011 @ 11:42am PDTTags: Mandate Pictures, Mark Protosevich, Oldboy, Roy Lee, Spike Lee

Mandate Pictures just announced that Spike Lee will direct Oldboy, a remake of the cult 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Mark Protosevich has adapted the … Read More »

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A Post Comic-Con Wish List of 15 Films The Geek Crowd Really Wants To See

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 26, 2010 @ 8:21am PDTTags: Akira, At the Mountains of Madness, Bioshock, Brian K. Vaughan, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Gore Verbinski, Guillermo Del Toro, Isaac Asimov, Katsuhiro Otomo, Marc Forster, Mark Protosevich, Max Brooks, Neil Gaiman, Neill Blomkamp, Sam Raimi, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, World War Z
Mike Fleming

Studios brought stars and film clips to Comic-Con, seeking geek love for all of its superhero and fantasy projects. While they’re paying attention, how about some of the more ambitious films these die-hards have waited years to see? After … Read More »

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