Maybe the third time will be the charm for “Dune.”
After two adaptations of the classic novel by Frank Herbert, a third “Dune” adapation is currently in development, helmed by actor-turned-director Peter Berg. And Berg insists that he is bringing something new to the table for the third attempt at bringing the novel to the screen.
“I [...]
Ridley Scott To Direct “Brave New World”
August 6, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | 5 Comments
Director Ridley Scott has signed on to direct the latest big-screen adaptation of Aldus Huxley’s “Brave New World.”
Scott will serve as both director and producer on the project according to reports. Leonardo DiCaprio will assist Scott in the producer duties and star in the film, the Hollywood Reporter reports.
“Brave New World” is set in the [...]
Graphic Novel “Night Mary” Coming to Big Screen
July 30, 2009 || Category: Film News, From Page To Screen | 1 Comment
“Night Mary,” the graphic horror novel from creators Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer has been opted for the big screen as a feature film. Since Animal Logic, (”300,” “The Matrix,” “Happy Feet”) a digital design studio, is behind the project it is assumed the movie will be a CGI-enhanced feature.
“Night Mary” tells the story [...]
Fantasy Novel “The Warded Man” Gets Film Pick-up
July 29, 2009 || Category: Film News, From Page To Screen | 3 Comments
Director/producer Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt (”Resident Evil”) have teamed up again by buying up the film rights to the futuristic fantasy story “The Warded Man” (a.k.a. “The Painted Man”) from writer Peter V. Brett.
Anderson will co-produce with Bolt and will sit center seat for the book-to-film project.
“The Warded Man” is a tale [...]
Terry Moore’s “Echo” To Get Big-Screen Treatment
July 23, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
“Watchmen” producer Lloyd Levin has purchased the rights to produce a big-screen adaptation of Terry Moore’s “Echo,” Variety reports.
“Echo” tells the story of a photographer who is preoccupied with her personal problems until she gets doused by liquid metal from a military experiment gone awry. She discovers she can now harness the power of a [...]
A few months ago, we told you about the new book, “Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster,” a book by Craig Yoe. The book details Shuster’s work on other comic series including “The Nights of Horror,” a 16-volume series of mob-financed underground comics depicting scenes that range from S&M to [...]
Director Frank Darabont has been working for years to get a new version of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, “Fahrenheit 451″ on the big-screen.
And while he says he won’t stop pursing the project, Darabont did say that he feels the window of opportunity to get the feature film made is closing. Part of that is [...]
Zombies Coming to Big Screen in “Deadworld”
June 11, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
“Deadworld,” a comic book series that takes place on Earth four months after the zombie apocolypse, has been optioned by Dark Horse Pictures for a new film franchise according to Variety.
The film will follow Protag, the king of the zombies in the new world order, as he cruises the planet on his Harley Davidson. Protag [...]
Screenwriters For “Daemon” Announced
May 21, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
As previously reported on Slice of SciFi, Daniel Suarez’s debut novel “Daemon” has been optioned for the big-screen.
Variety reports the project has taken a step closer to becoming a big-screen reality with Paramount hiring writers Walter Parkes and David DiGilio. Parkes is the screenwriter from other techno-thriller projects “Sneakers” and the original “War Games.”
“Daemon” [...]
The next Philip K. Dick novel to make the jump to the big-screen will be “Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.”
Published in 1974, “Policeman” is your typical, mind-bending, paranoia-infused PKD novel, focusing on a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him in a future dystopian [...]
“I, Frankenstein” Headed to Big-Screen
April 16, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
The first issue hasn’t hit stores yet, but Darkstorm Comic’s “I, Frankenstein” has been optioned for the big-screen according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The upcoming series brings together classic monster characters, including Frankenstein’s Monster, the Invisible Man, Dracula and the Hunchback of Notre Dame, in a contemporary film noir setting. The Monster has evolved, learned [...]
Hugo-awarding winning author Michael Chabon will pen the script for the upcoming “John Carter of Mars,” according to io9.
Chabon will adapt the text of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, “Princess of Mars” for the big-screen for Disney. The novel is the first of eleven novels about Carter that could be adapted for the big-screen.
Chabon [...]
Stephen King’s best-selling novel, “It” has already frightened an entire generation on the small-screen. But now the story of childhood friends reuniting in a small Maine town to confront a lurking horror from their childhood could get a chance to scare the willies out of a new generation at a theater near you.
Variety reports that [...]
“Chariots of the Gods” Optioned for Feature Film
March 11, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | 3 Comments
The book that served as part of the inspiration for the original “Battlestar Galactica” in the 70’s has been optioned to become a big-screen science-fiction epic according to Variety.
Erich von Daniken’s “Chariots of the Gods” has been optioned by Paradox Entertainment for big-screen treatment. The book asserted that Earth had been visited by aliens and [...]
“Thirteenth Hour” Hires Screen Writers
March 4, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
Richard Doetsch’s upcoming time-travel novel hasn’t even hit bookstores yet, but it’s already got a Hollywood deal.
“The Thirteenth Hour,” which follows a man accused of murdering his wife who gets to go back in time—in one-hour increments over 12 hours—with the chance to stop his wife’s killer, was optioned last year by New Line. Variety [...]
Studios Bidding for “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
February 11, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | 3 Comments
The book hasn’t even hit stores yet, but already several studios want to make it into a movie. The book in question–”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”
Combing the sensibility of Jane Austen and the brain-eating goodness of zombies, author Seth Grahame-Smith takes the orginal text of Jane Austen’s novel, “Pride and Prejudice” and injects [...]
“ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction” Optioned
February 9, 2009 || Category: From Page To Screen | 1 Comment
The undead will soon be fighting for your freedom at a theater near you.  Red 5’s comic book “ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction” has been optioned for movie-treatment according to the Hollywood Reporter.Â
Writers Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain will seek to adapt the comic book series for the big-screen.
“Underworld” actor Kevin Grevioux created the comic [...]
Director James Gray is developed a script based on the life of Percy Harrison Fawcett called “The Lost City of Z.”  Gray is developing the story from David Grann’s book and hopes to have the screenplay done in the next two months. Gray also hopes the script will interest actor Brad Pitt in the lead [...]
Director Roland Emmerich will bring Issac Asimov’s classic science-fiction novel, “Foundation” to the big-screen according to Variety. Columbia Pictures won an auction Thursday for the screen rights to the first novel in the series and is looking to develop the property for Emmerich to direct.
Emmerich has previously directed other big-budget sci-fi epics like “Independence [...]
Proving that hard work and having a great product can equal success in the publishing world, author Daniel Suarez has had his originally self-published thriller, “Daemon” optioned for a feature film according to Reuters. Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing the project for Parmount Pictures.
“Daemon” centers on an iconic game designer who, before he [...]
Regency Options Asimov’s “End of Eternity”
November 14, 2008 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
Issac Asimov is heading back to the big screen. Regency Pictures has optioned the screen rights to his 1955 novel, “The End of Eternity” reports Variety.
The novel tells of a future where humanity is controlled by a ruling class called Eternity. Those who are in that class can manipulate time in order to alter history [...]
First Brad Pitt tried Homer, the famous Greek poet, on for size in the film “Troy,” based on the the poet’s famous “The Iliad.” Now the actor is ready to tackle another masterpiece from the ancient writer. He will play Odysseus (a.k.a. Ulysses) in the Warner Bros. production of “The Odyssey,” according to [...]
Film Rights Secured for Carlson’s “Plague Year”â€
September 14, 2008 || Category: From Page To Screen | Leave a Comment
Jim McNally of “Seven Seas Jim” is producing a feature version of Jeff Carlson’s high concept thriller “Plague Year.â€
The novel, which is currently the lead hard cover from European publisher Minotauro in Spain and has also seen major releases in North America and in Germany, is about a medical nanotechnology that breaks loose and devours [...]
Robert Jordan’s popular fantasy series “The Wheel of Time” has been optioned by Universal Pictures in a seven-figure deal according to Variety.
The potential big-screen franchise will begin with an adaptation of the first novel of the series, “The Eye of the World.”Â
Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will produce for Red Eagle Entertainment, which published graphic [...]
Columbia Pictures will be producing a big screen version of the James Patterson YA novel “Maximum Ride.” Patterson will release the fifth novel in the series in 2009.
Story centers around six kids who have been genetically altered so that their DNA is now 98% human and 2% bird. They have been bred to fly [...]
Any time you take a popular novel and adapt it to the big or small screen, certain changes will have to be made. The changes can be big or small, but one thing is always certain–changes can make long-time fans of the series nervous.
Author Terry Goodkind is aware of the nervousness his fans may [...]
Over the weekend, the fourth installment in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” saga hit bookstores to record-setting sales and crowds. USA Today reports “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth and final chapter in the series sold 1.3 million copies on Saturday.
However, while the news on the sales front has been universally good, the fan reaction to the novel has [...]
Asimov’s “Foundation”Coming to the Big Screen
July 29, 2008 || Category: From Page To Screen | 14 Comments
Warner Bros. Pictures will be adaptaing Isaac Asimov’s futuristic sci-fi epic “Foundation.” The feature film will be produced by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne through Unique Features.
“Foundation” is based on Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy,” which centers on a society that has figured out how to predict the future based on a method called psychohistory and [...]
Lucy M. Boston’s classic tales of “The Children of Green Knowe” will be getting big screen treatment beginning this fall.
Ealing Studios Intl. has signed on actor-turned- director Julian Fellowes (”Separate Lies”) to helm the project that will be titled “From Time to Time.” Fellowes also will adapt the screenplay from Boston’s works.
Like the series [...]
Award winning director Spike Lee, using his own money and resources has acquire the rights to film “Time Traveler,” based on the prize winning book “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality,” the memoirs of renowned theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett.
This one isn’t sci-fi, but is sci-fact. The film will [...]
