 Wes Craven’s Newsround
Wes Craven, the Nightmare on Elm Street
and Scream helmer will direct the English-language remake of the recent
French hit Harry, He’s Here to Help. The blackly comic original,
directed by Dominik Moll, starred Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas and Mathilde
Seigner, and centred on a charming psychotic whose run-in with a former
schoolmate leads to murder. Craven and his producer partner Marianna Maddalena
have also just optioned Junk, a Sci-Fi family adventure that will be
directed by special-effects guru Robert Kurtzman about a group of children who
find a buried treasure in a junkyard.
Kurtzman, the K in the KNB Effects group,
directed Wishmaster and recently supplied effects for John
Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. Craven’s production company is also
developing a remake of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Fountain
Society based on Craven’s own novel, and a Gothic Alice in
Wonderful, based on the video game American McGee’s
Alice.
Marvel Cloak and
Dagger
Cloak and Dagger, an
obscure Marvel comic book about an odd couple of teen vigilantes, will become a
live-action feature at Dimension Films. The series, which debuted in 1985,
revolves around a pair of runaways. One’s a rich white girl, the other a
streetwise black male. She’s able to project a terrifying,
all-encompassing darkness, while he’s capable of generating a blinding
bright light. They join forces to protect other kids on the streets from urban
corruption.
“I compare Cloak and
Dagger with Blade, in that they aren’t the most high-profile
Marvel properties, but audiences will identify with them”, said Marvel
Studios president Avi Arad, who will serve as a producer. “This will be an
action-packed, exciting movie”. Cloak and
Dagger went out of print but was fished from obscurity by producer Rick
Alexander and writer David Tischman, who were fans of the material and got Arad
excited about its movie potential. Dimension is also developing Ghost
Rider with Blade director Steve Norrington, and plans to turn the
Marvel comic Werewolf by Night into a live-action feature.
M Again
Rapper DMX will team up again with Exit
Wounds producer Joel Silver for a remake of M, Austrian director
Fritz Lang’s tale about the hunt for a child murderer. DMX and Silver
previously collaborated on Romeo Must Die and are expected to begin
production on M later this year. In the original 1931 film, Peter Lorre
played an elusive killer whose murderous sprees disrupt the operations of
organized crime, prompting the unusual action of criminals launching the search
for their own. M was remade into an American version in 1951, but it is
the original that is considered a classic in film circles. What part DMX will
play is unknown but he is also lined up to star in The Crow:
Lazarus.
Also...
Joel Silver will produce The Inferno,
written by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, best known for creating TV series
The Immortals. The story follows 12 brave but rather flawed men who
descend through the recently uncovered gates of Hell to bring back a sacred
key. The tale eventually will be released in comic book form via Top Cow,
publisher of such comics as Witchblade…
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