variety.com - 11/19/2008
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Bond to direct, Poirier to write film Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski will remake the 2006 Bong Joon-ho-directed Korean thriller "The Host," with commercials director Fredrik Bond making his feature helming debut and Mark Poirier ("Smart People") to pen the script. Story follows a town ...
variety.com - 11/25/2008
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Film is studio's first French-language project Universal's first
local-language French pic will be based on the life...
of Gaul's iconic singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, who died in 1991. Serge Gainsbourg (vie heroique) will mark graphic novelist ...
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slashfilm.com - 11/23/2008
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Universal Studios has signed a director to remake
Bong Joon-ho ’s 2006 Korean monster film The Host...
. Commercial film director Fredrik Bond will helm the project, based on a script by Smart People scribe Mark Poirier , and Gore Verbinski ...
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Gore Verbinski to Produce, Fredrik Bond to Direct The ...
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Universal remaking The Host
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Universal remaking The Host Gore Verbinski’s producing the creature feature BY James White Nov 19th 2008 7:07AM FILED UNDER: Movie news Be the first to comment Universal Pictures has signed newcomer Fredrik Bond to direct and Pirates helmer Gore Verbinski to produce a remake of 2006 Korean thriller The Host. Fredrik, who has worked on music videos and adverts, will take the helm for the movie, which will follow roughly the same plot of a squid-alike beast terrorising a small town. Smart People writer Mark Poirier is at work on a script that will find a dysfunctional family banding together to rescue a snatched young girl. Genre ...
Universal Pictures to remake 'The Host'
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Universal pictures is teaming up with Gore Verbinski to redo the thriller The Host. According to Variety, Fredrik Bond will direct the Bong Joon-Ho Korean thriller that has been penned by Mark Poirier. Story follows a town terrorized by a giant mutant squidlike creature hatched by toxins that flow into a nearby river from a military base. When the creature grabs a little girl, her dysfunctional family must band together to rescue her. Verbinski will produce with Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison, along with Paul Brooks. The film, originally titled "Gwoemul," did record-breaking business in its ...
X-Men Continues With Younger Cast. Trade Roughage 11/19/08
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Unfortunately, Fox is not making an X-Babies movie. Yet. Instead, the studio is continuing the franchise with X-Men: First Class, a kind of New Mutants or Generation X-like spinoff that will probably capitalize on the risen stardom of Ellen Page, who played Shadowcat in X-Men: The Last Stand, rather than a reboot/origin story a la the First Class comic book. And with Josh Schwartz writing the screenplay, it should be like The O.C. and Gossip Girl, only with mutant superheroes.
In other Marvel adaptation news, First Avenger: Captain ...
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Gore Verbinski Produces Host Remake
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Gore Verbinski Produces Host Remake After leading Captain Jack Sparrow through his pretend drunken paces during the last four or five years, director Gore Verbinski is ready for something new. So how about a mutant squidlike creature? Sounds like the perfect match. According to Variety , Verbinski will produce a remake of the 2006 Korean thriller, The Host. The original was a huge hit in Korea and was well received by US critics (like ...
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