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Relativity Media Taps Sheldon Turner To Script And Maybe Direct ‘Borderland’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 12:29pm PDTTags: Borderland, Jennifer Klein, Relativity Media, Sheldon Turner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has acquired Borderland, a gritty action thriller that Sheldon Turner will write with an eye toward directing. The tone is modern-day Western meets Magnificent Seven; when a resort town is overrun by cartel violence, a newly installed mayor hires a band of ex and current Special Forces operatives to train them to fight back. The border town becomes a battleground and the operatives get in over their heads. The intention is to give an authentic depiction of post-war life for elite soldiers. Jennifer Klein will produce through Vendetta, the production shingle she and Turner set up together.

Turner, Oscar-nominated for co-writing Up In The Air, will work on this as he finalizes plans to make his feature directing debut on Two Minutes To Midnight, a script of his that had originally been set at Fox but which Klein and Turner got back in turnaround. Turner is also attached to helm By Virtue Fall, which is set at QED and has Armie Hammer and Eric Bana attached. Klein is producing both of those pictures as well as Everest, the Turner-scripted film that Doug Liman will direct at Sony with Tom Hardy attached to play George Mallory. Liman’s Hypnotic partner Dave Bartis is also producing and it will be Liman’s next film. READ MORE »

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ABC Buys Action Thriller From Ken Nolan And Sheldon Turner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 2:11pm PDTTags: Sheldon Turner
Nellie Andreeva

Sheldon TurnerKen NolanEXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Black Friday, a drama written by feature scribe Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and executive produced by another feature writer, Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air) through Vendetta Prods., his production company with Jennifer Klein. ABC Studios, where Vendetta is based, will produce.

Black Friday is an action thriller that follows a guy who unexpectedly finds himself in the center of a perilous event where he is responsible for the safety of others. The show follows him as he works to uncover the conspiracy responsible for the event while also following the personal lives of those surrounding him. Nolan, Sheldon and Klein executive produce. This marks Vendetta’s second sale this season, along with family soap SkinDeep at ABC, which is being written by Turner. Read More »

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Warner Bros Working On Dual Pics On Animal Poaching And Trafficking

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 16, 2012 @ 1:36pm PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sheldon Turner, Tobey Maguire, Tom Hardy, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros is working on not one but two high-profile films about the illegal poaching and trafficking in endangered animals around the world. Both projects are being produced by Tobey Maguire‘s Material Pictures, Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way and Tom Hardy‘s Executive Options. I don’t know if both of these projects get made, but at a time when Hollywood studios are preoccupied with pretend crises like zombies and vampires, bravo for a major to step up and try to weave in a global problem like ivory trafficking into a drama.

The first project is being written by Up In The Air co-writer Sheldon Turner as a star vehicle for Hardy, based on an idea by the Dark Knight Rises and Warrior star. The untitled film is set in Africa and the aim is for Hardy to play a former Special Forces soldier who signs on with a friend to work in the bush, training rangers to fight off the poachers decimating the rhino and elephant populations in Zimbabwe. The soldier falls in love with the land, and the animals he is trying to save. Given his skill set, this spells bad news for the poachers. Also producing is Dean Baker, who is Hardy’s producing partner, and Paul Grey, along with Hardy, Maguire and DiCaprio. Hardy is working with Turner and producers Jennifer Klein and Dave Bartis on Everest, the Sony film that Doug Liman intends to direct, with Hardy playing British climber George Mallory and his attempts to become the first man to scale Everest and make it back alive.  Read More »

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Tom Hardy Climbing Aboard Doug Liman-Directed ‘Everest’; He’ll Play George Mallory

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 24, 2012 @ 4:41pm PDTTags: Doug Liman, Everest, Sheldon Turner, Sony Pictures, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

Tom HardyEXCLUSIVE: Tom Hardy is in early talks to star in Everest for Sony Pictures. He will play George Mallory, the climber who tried three times in the 1920s to become the first man to scale the world’s highest mountain. Doug Liman will direct the film after he completes All You Need Is Kill at Warner Bros with Tom Cruise. An adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s book Paths Of Glory, Everest has been adapted by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air). Jennifer Klein is producing, and Dave Bartis, Liman’s partner at Hypnotic, will also be a producer. Read More »

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ABC Buys Family Soap From Sheldon Turner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 13, 2012 @ 6:47pm PDTTags: ABC, Sheldon Turner
Nellie Andreeva

Sheldon TurnerEXCLUSIVE: ABC has bought SkinDeep, a drama project from Up In The Air co-writer Sheldon Turner. The project hails from Turner and Jennifer Klein’s company Vendetta Prods., which has a first-look deal at ABC Studios. Turner will … Read More »

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Armie Hammer Joining Eric Bana In Sheldon Turner’s ‘By Virtue Fall’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 8:30am PSTTags: Armie Hammer, By Virtue Fall, Eric Bana, Sheldon Turner
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After he finishes playing the title role opposite Johnny Depp in Disney’s The Lone Ranger, Armie Hammer is planning to take a dark turn in By Virtue Fall. That is the gritty drama that will mark the directing debut … Read More »

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Doug Liman Scales ‘Everest’ For Sony Pics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 7:40am PDTTags: Doug Liman, Everest, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner, Sony Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman has climbed aboard Everest, a Sony Pictures drama about George Mallory and his three attempts in the early 1920s to become the first man to climb the world’s highest mountain. The film, an adaptation of Jeffrey Archer’s book Paths Of Glory, has a script by Sheldon Turner. Jennifer Klein is producing. Liman has several projects percolating, including Luna, a moon mission film that Paramount Pictures and New Regency are trying to make work, as well as Warner Bros’ Dante Harper-scripted drama All You Need Is Kill. Liman, who directed the action hits The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is himself an avid climber and a fan of the Mallory story. He is in the midst of a deal to supervise the next draft by Turner with the intention to direct a film that is a priority at Sony Pictures. Read More »

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ABC Buys CIA, FBI Drama Projects From ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 12:13pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner, Vendetta
Nellie Andreeva

ABC is taking a closer look at the workings of U.S.’ top intelligence agencies with two new drama script buys, Safehouse, and Murder Season. Both shows hail from ABC Studios and studio-based producers: Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein and … Read More »

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ABC Buys ‘Jekyll & Hyde’-Inspired Drama Project From Sheldon Turner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 12:10pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Studios, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner, Vendetta
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic split-personality tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is getting a contemporary interpretation with Hyde, a drama series project from Up In the Air co-writer Sheldon Turner and ABC Studios that has been … Read More »

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‘Limitless’ Helmer Neil Burger Aboard New Version Of Bonnie And Clyde Outlaw Tale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 2:54pm PDTTags: Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Bryan Furst, Faye Dunaway, Sean Furst, Sheldon Turner, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Limitless helmer Neil Burger is in talks to team up with screenwriter Sheldon Turner and producers Sean and Bryan Furst and Marissa McMahon to bring to the screen a new version of the Depression Era outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. … Read More »

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Sheldon Turner And Jennifer Klein Launch Prod. Company, Ink Deal With ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 3:37pm PDTTags: ABC Studios, By Virtue Fall, Everest, First-Look Deal, Jennifer Klein, Sheldon Turner
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Frequent collaborators Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein are launching a company together. The company, Vendetta, will be based at ABC Studios with a first-look deal. Under the two-year pact, Up In the Air co-writer Turner will write one script himself and he and Klein will shepherd projects with other writers. Turner and Klein will executive produce all projects developed under the deal, which sprung from the relationship they developed with ABC and ABC Studios this past development season when the two executive produced a Vice President drama project titled Number Two, which Turner co-wrote with Shaun Cassidy. Turner and Klein are expected to bring a feature mentality to their development and shepherd big-event shows with feature writers.

In addition to Number Two, Turner and Klein have sold together as producers Broken to FX, which Turner wrote; drama Michael Chance to NBC, written by Julie Golden; and half-hour comedy The True Adventures of a Terrible Dater, written by Susan Brightbill. On the feature side, the two are producing the Turner-written By Virtue Fall, which will mark Turner’s directorial debut. The project is currently casting, with Eric Bana, James Spader, Carla Gugino, Ryan Phillippe and Connie Britton already on board. Turner also wrote Sony’s Everest, which is now out to directors. Read More »

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‘X-Men: First Class’ Writing Credit Dispute Resolved

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 29, 2011 @ 2:49pm PDTTags: Ashley Miller, Bryan Singer, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, Sheldon Turner, X-Men: First Class, Zack Stentz
Mike Fleming

A Writers Guild arbitration upheld the WGA decision that Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz and Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn deserve screenplay credit on X-Men: First Class, with Sheldon Turner (who wrote an origin film about Magneto) and Bryan Singer (who wrote an outline for the film at the beginning) … Read More »

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