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"Monster House" director Gil Kenan will helm a mo-cap adaptation of Eoin Colfer's "Airman": http://bit.ly/13FOSU 10/21/2009 |
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... $600 million from Transformers toys this year. Airman Takes Off Eoin Colfer certainly knows where his towel is at the moment. Not just a hot property because of his Hitchhiker’s sequel, he’s also now on Hollywood’s radar. His Artemis Fowl books have already been optioned for a film, and now he’s sold another of his books to Tinseltown for the big screen treatment - Airman. It's a fantasy about a bit accused of killing a king who builds a flying machine while in prison. According to Variety , Ann (The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe) Peacock will adapt the novel for Disney ...
Gil Kenan directing Airman
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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 king. But then the ruler is murdered, Connor is blamed and he's thrown into prison. He spends his time alone designing a flying machine he can use to escape and save his family. Zemeckis is producing the film and Kenan - who worked on Monster House and last helmed City Of Ember - will direct the movie from Ann Peacock's ...
Zemeckis Continues Motion Capture Obsession with 'Airman'
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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 book by Eoin Colfer. ...
"Narnia" Author Adapts "Airman"
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Ann Peacock ("The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe") will pen the $150 million motion-capture fantasy adventure "Airman" for Disney Pictures and ImageMovers reports Variety.
Based on the book by Eoin Colfer, the story follows Conor Broekhart, a young man born in a hot air balloon to a family close to the king who has a penchant for looking to the skies for inspiration.
After his tutor and king are murdered, Broekhart spends two years in prison, escapes and must decide whether to should turn his back on those who abandoned him or fight those who plot to overthrow the government.
Gil Kenan is directing ...
The Director Of MONSTER HOUSE And Robert Zemeckis Take Flight With AIRMAN!!
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Merrick here... Robert Zemeckis will produce a Gil Kenan directed adaptation of Eoin Colfe's book AIRMAN (available HERE [image] ). Based on a book by Eoin Colfer, story centers on Connor, a boy who lives on an island off the coast of Ireland, where his father is the king's bodyguard. When the king is murdered, Conor is blamed for the crime and thrown into prison where he passes the solitary months designing a flying machine that he will use to save his family. ...says Variety HERE . The project will be scripted by Ann Peacock (the first NARNIA movie, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE) and will be a motion capture extravaganza a-la Zemeckis' BEOWULF ...
