Long ago in April Fox 2000 bought the rights to Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels, with Angelina Jolie lined up to star. Now the planned film is moving ahead, with writer Kerry Williamson signing up to pen the script.Williamson is pretty hot right now in Hollywood - she's been adapting the novel Fork In The Road for Alexander Payne to direct, and is also lined up to turn an article on a heist into a script for Darren Aronofsky's Breaking The Bank.Let's hope she can work with a similarly talented director on the Scarpetta series, which sees medical examiner Kay Scarpetta solve crimes based on trace evidence on the bodies and lots of her own investigation (police procedure be damned!).It's expected that Williamson will take elements from several of the 17 books for the script, rather than adapting one in particular, and it's hoped that this will become a franchise,...
- 1/14/2010
- EmpireOnline
“The Wrestler” director Darren Aronofsky will direct and produce a movie based on the robbery committed at the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge, England in February 2006.
Kerry Williamson, recent scribe on Alexander Payne’s adapted “Fork In The Road,” is adapting the script from an underlying rights package that includes Jon Wertheim’s Sports Illustrated magazine article “Breaking the Bank” and Howard Sounes’ nonfiction book “Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery.”
Variety says that Xyz Films and Time Inc. Studios are partnered with Protozoa Pictures on the project. Scott Franklin of Protozoa will produce alongside Aronofsky. Time Inc. Studios chief Paul Speaker is executive producing, with Xyz fully financing the development.
On Wednesday, 22 February 2006, GBP53 million ($85 million) in bank notes was stolen from a cash warehouse belonging to the Securitas company in Tonbridge, Kent — a sum of money so vast that if the notes were stacked up...
Kerry Williamson, recent scribe on Alexander Payne’s adapted “Fork In The Road,” is adapting the script from an underlying rights package that includes Jon Wertheim’s Sports Illustrated magazine article “Breaking the Bank” and Howard Sounes’ nonfiction book “Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery.”
Variety says that Xyz Films and Time Inc. Studios are partnered with Protozoa Pictures on the project. Scott Franklin of Protozoa will produce alongside Aronofsky. Time Inc. Studios chief Paul Speaker is executive producing, with Xyz fully financing the development.
On Wednesday, 22 February 2006, GBP53 million ($85 million) in bank notes was stolen from a cash warehouse belonging to the Securitas company in Tonbridge, Kent — a sum of money so vast that if the notes were stacked up...
- 9/22/2009
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
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