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Newsbites: The sci-fi pulp fantasy edition!
FilmChat — Time to get a few more backlogged items off my plate. 1. Has it really been two years since Guillermo Del Toro first talked about directing a Tarzan movie? Oh well, a little thing called The Hobbit got in the way, and now the producers of the Tarzan movie are thinking of getting someone else to direct. Someone like ... Stephen Sommers. Ugh. -- Variety, Hollywood Reporter 2. The judge presiding over the Watchmen lawsuit between Fox and ...

‘Man on Wire’ Supplemented. Trade Roughage 09/03/08
SpoutBlog — ... Get ready for unnecessarily computer-generated gorillas and African tribesmen: Stephen Sommers (The Mummy; Van Helsing) is in negotiations to direct Warner Bros.’ new Tarzan movie, from a script by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) expected to be “an entirely new approach” to the character. ...

Links of the Week for 9/5
We Are Movie Geeks — ... “Hoosiers, meets Half Nelson, and Bad News Bears,” sounds like a winning combo. -The Brothers Bloom has been delayed until December, no!!!! -Mark Millar (Wanted) might script Superman trilogy reboot? -Only one more episode of Flight of the Conchords? That makes me sad. -Here is the new Zack and Miri preview, and is officially rated so it won’t be pulled. -Stephen Sommers is close to directing a new version of Tarzan. At least he should make it cool to look at. -Star Wars: The ...