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Jon Spaihts’ Passengers nearing green light

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Passengers, a science fiction romance written by Jon Spaihts, has moved a step closer to the big screen. Spaihts' script was on the 2007 Black List and has been in development at Company Films for some time now, with Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel producing. Now, Passengers is one of the three projects that have been fast-tracked by Morgan Creek, along with the psychological thriller Dream House, helmed by Jim Sheridan, and Antoine Fuqua's crime drama Scarpa, based on a true [Read more...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still steers clear of politics, revisits existentialist SF

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It is difficult to see Scott Derrickson's The Day the Earth Stood Still as a movie that exists independently of Robert Wise's 1951 original, mostly because the two use a very similar tone in delivering their messages. However, while the original never really attempts to rise above its didacticism - a popular trend in the genre back in the day - the premise of the remake is primarily a reflective one and thankfully shows little ambition to be as instructive as Wise's film. It is precisely the [Read more...]