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National Treasure Director To Helm Greenpeace Movie, Possibly Written By Aaron Sorkin
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Jon Turteltaub is best known as the director of the National Treasure films and the upcoming live action movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. So you can understand why I was a little shocked at first to learn that Turteltaub has signed on to direct Greenpeace, the story of the origin of the controversial conservation organization. It gets even better… According to Variety, West Wing/The Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is in early talks to write the screenplay.
The narrative will ...
Greenpeace: Origins
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Greenpeace's Looney Bin John Turtletaub making a film about the origins of the Greenpeace movement is already a strange idea in itself - the NATIONAL TREASURE director isn't exactly the one I'd pick for a serious project. But then it gets weirder: AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN guy Jerry Zucker is producing. With his wife. Nic Cage and Leslie Nielsen take on whale hunters?... The yet-untitled film would chronicle the organization's early days in the 70s and 80s, seen through the eyes of its founders Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. Says Zucker to Variety ...
Jon Turteltaub Helms Greenpeace Film
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Jon Turteltaub ("National Treasure") is set to direct a currently untitled film about the formation of the Greenpeace movement for Aurelius Films reports Variety.
Set in the late 70's/early 80's, the story follows the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
Together with an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists they often successfully managed to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters.
Their success was not without repercussions though, from claims ...
'Paranormal' Scares Up $100 Million; Scorsese Ready For His Closeup; Colin Firth Stammers; Turteltaub Joins Greenpeace
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[image] -After a summer's worth of viral based buzz that Paramount's marketing team gradually built into mainstream attention, " Paranormal Activity ," in its fifth week of national release has joined the $100 million club . Oren Peli 's $15,000 movie that could is now the top grossing, R-rated thriller of all time but don't think that studios are banging down his door just yet. The director is currently filming " Area 51 ," an alien thriller, and the rights are currently for sale at the American Film Market. However, while it was mentioned earlier in the week that studios were in small bidding war for the picture, it appears things ...
Greenpeace origins film
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... using the name Greenpeace. In 1972, the Greenpeace Foundation evolved in its own right to a less conservative and structured collective of environmentalists who were more reflective of the counterculture and hippie youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The social and cultural background from which Greenpeace emerged heralded a period of de-conditioning away from old world antecedents and sought to develop new codes of social, environmental and political behavior. According to Variety ...
Director Jon Turteltaub On Board for Greenpeace Origin Film
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It looks like former Vice President Al Gore isn't the only one pushing green films as Variety reports National Treasure director Jon Turteltaub is next set to direct a film chronicling the birth of Greenpeace, the organization fighting for the protection and conservation of the ...
Jon Turteltaub Giving Greenpeace The National Treasure Treatment
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Jon Turteltaub Giving Greenpeace The National Treasure Treatment He found a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and made us all believe John Travolta had special powers, and now Jon Turteltaub is going to make something out of those hippies who run around on boats trying to save whales. That's right: he's giving Greenpeace the National Treasure treatment. According to Variety , the film will be set in the late 70s and early 80s, when the organization was just getting started thanks to charismatic founding members Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. It sounds ...
The Director Of The NATIONAL TREASURE Films & (Possibly) The Creator Of THE WEST WING To Make A Greenpeace Movie??
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Merrick here... NATIONAL TREASURE producer/director Jon Turteltaub is pulling together a movie about the founding of Greenpeace. The project's looking for writers and early discussions have already been had with Aaron Sorkin (THE WEST WING). Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and ...
Brother vs. brother: Zucker fight.
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... Greenpeace is a good organization that's kind of itchily annoying, the same way a college activist getting you to sign a worthy petition is -- a point driven home quite literally when Bruce Willis was whacking activists with golf balls from his oil rig in "Armageddon." That image might be a good one to keep in mind when reading the news that arch-hack Jon Turteltaub ("National Treasure," "Phenomenon," "Cool Runnings," "3 Ninjas" -- a résumé to set your heart a-flutter) is all set to go on a biopic of the nascent Greenpeace movement of the '70s and early '80s: get ready for ...
TURTELTAUB LOOKING TO PISS OFF NORWEGIANS, JAPANESE
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[image] Jon Turteltaub is going green, according to Variety. The National Treasure director is set to helm and produce a Greenpeace biopic with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ...
Turteltaub is all about Greenpeace
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Jon Turteltaub is doing himself some research on Greenpeace as he signs on to helm a film about the start of the group movement. Variety has more on the plot of the upcoming movie:
Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization’s charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp ...
National Treasure director to make GREENPEACE origin film
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Director Jon Turteltaub(National Treasure) is on board to bring the story of Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, the founders of the Greenpeace movement, to the big screen.
Jerry and Janet Zucker will produce the pic along with Aurelius Films’ Matthew Joynes and Jesse Kennedy, with the company financing development of the project. Turteltaub will also produce thorough his Junction Entertainment banner.
Joynes secured the organization’s official cooperation, while acquiring the rights to two books that ...
Jon Turteltaub Directing a GREENPEACE Film That Aaron Sorkin Might Write
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It is time to save the whales. In Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Today, the development of a film treatment detailing the early years of the Greenpeace movement was announced. Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) has been signed to direct the movie which will be produced by Jerry and Janet Zucker in conjunction with ...
Jon Turteltaub to direct 'Greenpeace' movie
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Jon Turteltaub, the guy behind "National Treasure," is set to direct an adventure film focusing on the origins of Greenpeace, and Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network") may end up writing the script.
Variety says the story will be set in the '70s and '80s, following Greenpeace founders Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler as they embark on missions to disrupt whaling ships, nuclear bomb tests and other activities.
The film will pull from the books "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement."
