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Laeta Kalogridis And Patrick Lussier Set To Script New ‘Terminator’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 9:53am PSTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Big Deals Film, David Ellison, Laeta Kalogridis, Megan Ellison, Patrick Lussier, The Terminator
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures have set Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier to script the next installment of The Terminator franchise.

Her credits include Avatar, Shutter Island and Alexander, produced White House Down. Lussier scripted Wes Craven’s Dracula and directed My Bloody Valentine. Skydance’s David Ellison recently hired the scribes to write an original scifi adventure film, with an idea initiated by Skydance. Megan Ellison paid a fortune for the rights several years ago, and recently teamed with brother David, whose company finds big ticket action films like Terminator to be in its wheelhouse. David, who just produced Jack Reacher, had the relationship with the scribes, though interestingly Kalogridis also is tight with Terminator creator James Cameron. Megan Ellison is in the thick of the Oscar race with Zero Dark Thirty and The Master.

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Skydance Sets Laeta Kalogridis And Patrick Lussier To Script Sci-Fi Adventure

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 16, 2012 @ 12:16pm PDTTags: David Ellison, Laeta Kalogridis, Patrick Lussier, Skydance Productions
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Ellison’s Skydance Productions, which has been in the middle of the recent Paramount hits Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol and True Grit, is making good on its promise to develop its own original material. Ellison has set Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier to script an original science fiction adventure based on an idea hatched at Skydance.

They are keeping the idea close to the vest. Kalogridis’ scripting credits include Shutter Island and Alexander, and she was exec producer of Avatar. With her Mythology Entertainment partners Bradley Fischer and James Vanderbilt, she’s producing White House Down, the Vanderbilt-scripted drama that Roland Emmerich will direct for Sony Pictures. As for Lussier, his script credits include Wes Craven’s Dracula trilogies, My Bloody Valentine and Drive Angry. He is separately co-writing an untitled thriller for producer Jason Blum that Lussier will direct. Read More »

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Comic-Con #6: Nic Cage & ‘Drive Angry 3D’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 5:42pm PDTTags: Amber Heard, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Drive Angry 3D, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Lussier, William Fichtner

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

I have never concealed my nuttiness for Nic Cage. And I don’t mean indie-drama, alcoholic downbeat Nic Cage, but bug-eyed, wig-wearing, attention-deficit-crazed Nicolas Cage. Or maybe I just have a thing for bad wigs. (William Shatner and the late Wally George are also faves. But then there’s Burt Reynolds, who never did much for me.) Nicolas Cage in 3D is a dream come true. Just give me one massive closeup of his face in full freakout mode. Summit’s DRIVE ANGRY, which based on the big-screen logo they showed is not merely going to be called DRIVE ANGRY, or even DRIVE ANGRY 3D, but rather DRIVE ANGRY SHOT IN 3D, sounded on paper like a DEATH WISH-type story. But then they roll the preview: “He escaped from Hell.” Read More »

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Summit Stokes ‘Red’ And ‘Drive Angry 3D’ at Comic-Con

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 6:33pm PDTTags: Amber Heard, Bruce Willis, Comic-Con, Drive Angry 3D, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary Louise Parker, Megamind, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Lussier, Red, Robert Schwentke Director Red, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sucker Punch, The Green Hornet 3D, Thor, Warren Ellis, William Fichtner
Mike Fleming

10-ridiculous-comic-con-costumes-800-75Summit Entertainment joins the phalanx of studios bringing film footage and star casts to the geek altar that is Comic-Con. Summit, which for the past two years has brought its Twilight Saga cast to the event, this time herds the cast … Read More »

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