variety.com - 10/20/2009
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Writer to adapt novel for Disney, ImageMovers Scribe Ann Peacock will pilot the adaptation of the novel "Airman" for Disney and Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers. Gil Kenan is directing and Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey are producing the $150 million motion-capture fantasy adventure through ...
totalfilm.com - 10/20/2009
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Robert Zemeckis just can't stop finding books to
turn into motion capture films - his latest project...
is having Gil Kenan turn Eoin Colfer's Airman into a film. Colfer's story follows Connor, a lad living on an island off the coast of Ireland, where is father makes a living protecting the ...
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Gil Kenan directing Airman
firstshowing.net - 10/21/2009
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At least Robert Zemeckis will leave the directing
to Gil Kenan ( Monster House , City of...
Ember ) this time, as Variety reports that ImageMovers and Disney will be producing a $150 million motion capture adaptation of Airman , an action-adventure ...
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Zemeckis Continues Motion Capture Obsession with 'Airman'
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Gil Kenan and Robert Zemeckis Re-Teaming For 'Airman'
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There have been whispers about this for a while, but it now looks official that Gil Kenan ("Monster House") is reteaming with mentor Robert Zemeckis on a $150 million adaptation of Eoin Colfer's young adult novel "Airman." The plot is a steampunk-flavored adventure, set on the Saltee Islands, off the coast of Ireland, about a young man framed for the murder of the king, and sent to prison. While there, he invents a flying machine, and adopts the guise of 'the Airman,' a heroic French swordsman. The script will be by Ann Peacock, writer of the first ...
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