The Hollywood Reporter informs us that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled “Scared Straight.” Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce. Avi Lerner also would produce. “Straight” follows a troubled youth who’s sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out. The project was set up at New Line for a couple of years but was let go recently. Contrafilm brought the project to Emmett/Furla Films, which...
- 8/6/2008
- UGO Movies
• The Hollywood Reporter says Nicholas Cage and John Carpenter may join forces to develop “Scared Straight,” a thriller about a convict forced to help free a hostage held inside a prison. Ron Brinkerhoff rewrote the original script by Joe Gazzam.
• Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of “The Devil Wears Prada,” has been hired to write the script for “The Ivy Chronicles,” which will star Sarah Jessica Parker as an upper-middle class mother who is forced to move into a cheap downtown apartment after losing her job and getting divorced. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• According to Variety, Robert De Niro is in talks to star alongside Mel Gibson in Martin Campbell’s crime drama “Edge of Darkness.” Gibson plays a homicide detective who discovers his daughter’s secret life after she’s murdered on the steps of his house. De Niro would star as an operative sent to clean up any kind of evidence.
• Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of “The Devil Wears Prada,” has been hired to write the script for “The Ivy Chronicles,” which will star Sarah Jessica Parker as an upper-middle class mother who is forced to move into a cheap downtown apartment after losing her job and getting divorced. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• According to Variety, Robert De Niro is in talks to star alongside Mel Gibson in Martin Campbell’s crime drama “Edge of Darkness.” Gibson plays a homicide detective who discovers his daughter’s secret life after she’s murdered on the steps of his house. De Niro would star as an operative sent to clean up any kind of evidence.
- 8/2/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
This isn't even close to horror, but it is John Carpenter, so I'll let this be the one and only post about this movie. Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled Scared Straight, which follows a troubled youth who's sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out. Joe Gazzam wrote the original spec, which was rewritten by Ron Brinkerhoff. An October start is being eyed.
- 8/1/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter are in final negotiations to team up for a prison thriller titled "Scared Straight."
Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce. Avi Lerner also would produce.
"Straight" follows a troubled youth who's sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out.
The project was set up at New Line for a couple of years but was let go recently. Contrafilm brought the project to Emmett/Furla Films, which has a deal with Nu Image/ Millennium.
Joe Gazzam wrote the original spec, which was rewritten by Ron Brinkerhoff.
Noah Rosen is exec producing as is Rob Cohen, who was attached to direct at one point.
An October start is being eyed.
Nu Image/Millennium Films would finance the film and is in negotiations with Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Randall Emmett and George Furla to produce. Avi Lerner also would produce.
"Straight" follows a troubled youth who's sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out.
The project was set up at New Line for a couple of years but was let go recently. Contrafilm brought the project to Emmett/Furla Films, which has a deal with Nu Image/ Millennium.
Joe Gazzam wrote the original spec, which was rewritten by Ron Brinkerhoff.
Noah Rosen is exec producing as is Rob Cohen, who was attached to direct at one point.
An October start is being eyed.
- 8/1/2008
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neal McDonough has joined the cast of The Guardian for Touchstone Pictures and Beacon Pictures. Buena Vista Pictures will distribute domestically. The film, which stars Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Costner and Sela Ward, revolves around the relationship between a rebellious Coast Guard enlistee (Kutcher) and a legendary rescue swimmer (Costner). McDonough will play Skinner, a protege of Costner's character. Andy Davis will direct the film from a screenplay by Ron Brinkerhoff and James Vanderbilt. Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are producing, and Peter MacGregor-Scott is executive producing.
- 12/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ron Brinkerhoff has been tapped to write Warner Bros. Pictures' Fort Knox, an action-heist movie that Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures is producing along with Charles Segars. The story line, which is being kept close to the vest, deals with a team of specialists that is hired to break in to the impenetrable Fort Knox. The project is based on a pitch by Segars (National Treasure). Jeff Phillips is exec producing. Mary Viola, who brought the project in for Thunder Road, is overseeing. Lynn Harris is overseeing for Warners. Matt Reilly is the creative executive.
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