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Inscription: 25 Nov 2005, 00:46 Messages: 86857 Localisation: Fortress of Précarité
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Je compile toutes les news depuis 2 ans : Commercial director Joseph Kosinski (TRON Legacy) is developing a new feature film project for Radical Pictures titled Oblivion. You might recognize the title because it is the same title of a “illustrated novel” announced back in February, written by Kosinski with art by newcomer Tae Young Choi.
Kosinski has been developing the idea for the last four years, which he had initially hoped to make his directorial debut with the story before Tron came along. He had conceived the idea as a “very spare science fiction film with a small cast but big ideas and big landscapes” that could be made on a medium budget.
Described as a “big sci-fi epic” set in a “post-apocalyptic Earth,” where “civilization lives above the clouds and scavengers illegally collect artifacts from the polluted and destroyed surface below.” The story follows one young scavenger, a soldier who’s been court-martialed and sent to patrol this planet and maintain “a fleet of droids and probes that comb the surface, searching out this primitive alien race that’s been defeated.” One day, he “discovers a crashed spacecraft planetside- and a beautiful women within,” “who left on a science mission 60 years earlier. When she wakes up, she knows who he is, which doesn’t make any sense to him and together they have to unravel this mystery. It’s in the same realm as “12 Monkeys.”
“It’s a sci-fi adventure that spans two different worlds and two different times. It’s epic in terms of its scale and scope, but it’s a character driven story with a small cast.” … “I first came up with the concept when I moved from New York to Los Angeles. I was inspired by old sci-fi models like The Twilight Zone” to find an emotional, dramatic story that would raise interesting questions and play with perspective. I wanted to build the story around those few characters, but at the same time ask the bigger universal questions that are integral to science fiction, questions about our existence, our purpose in the big scheme of things.
Disney has hired William Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, to adapt the graphic novel Oblivion for Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
Karl Gajdusek, who wrote the film Trespass that was just shot with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman starring, is rewriting the script.
But now the project is dead at Disney, and may be made elsewhere. What does this mean for the director and Disney?
Variety says that Oblivion has been put into turnaround — Mr. Kosinski and Radical Publishing can take it to other studios/producers at this point. (And, yes, the trade uses ‘Oblivion’ rather than the previously reported newer title, ‘Horizons.’) This comes as a bit of surprise since THR, which ran the last update, said at the time the project was a high priority at Disney.
So what happened? There is no indication. Is the film, which sounds like it could be a relatively dark bit of sci-fi, simply not the sort of bright, theme park-friendly fare that Disney wants to make right now? Have enough numbers really come in from Tron Legacy that the project now seems like a bad idea? Was Disney developing it for the sake of keeping their Tron director happy until that film was received with less than shattering excitement? Meanwhile, what of The Black Hole, which Joseph Kosinski is also set to direct for Disney? We don’t know yet, but we haven’t heard anything about The Black Hole in a while. Is his relationship with the studio pretty much done?
(UPDATE: THR says that the Kosinski/Disney relationship is strong and that budget concerns are at the root of this decision. Warners, Fox, Universal and Paramount are said to be possible homes for the project, and that Disney putting it in turnaround, instead of burying it, is indicative of the fact that the studio’s relationship with the director remains strong.)BREF Et donc la news du jour, avec une petite "analyse" intéressante par Drew McWeeny : It is interesting enough to simply report that it looks like Tom Cruise is going to star for Joseph Kosinski in the big-budget PG-13 science-fiction action film "Horizons" for Universal.
But when you look at the decisions surrounding this decision, it's downright fascinating, and very revealing in terms of studio politics and the overall agendas for what is or isn't getting made right now.
"Horizons" was originally titled "Oblivion," and it was set-up while Kosinski was still in production on "TRON: Legacy." At the time, the buzz was high on Kosinski and his sequel to the 1982 cult hit, and he went around town with his Radical Comics presentation and, in the end, Disney decided that they wanted to be in the Kosinski business in a big way. That appears to be a decision they have since reversed, but I think it says less about Kosinski than it does about Disney right now, and in a sort of off-handed way, I think it says a lot about what we can expect from "John Carter Of Mars".
After all, when Disney says that they're letting "Horizons" go in turn-around because they weren't comfortable making a PG-13 action film, I don't think that's untrue. They seem to be focused on making their films skew younger and younger right now, and while they're certainly comfortable with adventure films like the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, those walk a fine line in how rough they're willing to play. And while "TRON: Legacy" did eventually break $400 million at the worldwide box-office, it was a preposterously expensive film for Disney, and I'm guessing that if the Disney team was asked to make that decision again now, knowing what they know, they wouldn't do it again. I've been hearing for a while that "John Carter" is being played much younger, more as an adventure, toning down many of the more extreme elements of the Burroughs series.
Meanwhile, Universal took a lot of heat for pulling the plug on Guillermo Del Toro's "At The Mountains Of Madness," and at the time they cited the R rating as a real problem for them. They were excited at the prospect of making a Tom Cruise genre film, but they just couldn't commit to doing it with the full R. Now, with "Horizons," they get to make a big Tom Cruise movie, they get the PG-13, and they get to see if Joseph Kosinski is the next David Fincher, making a debut with a disappointing franchise film before moving on to more interesting personal work.
These are interesting times for the industry, and we're seeing all of the studios try to figure out what identity they want to have in these shifting, difficult moments, and how they're going to try to serve their audiences.A priori, ce serait son prochain film, celui d'après pourrait être le remake de The Black Hole ou la suite de Tron Legacy qui sont tous deux bel et bien toujours en développement selon les propos de Kosinski himself il y a quelques jours. Pas de news par contre pour Archangel, un autre projet d'action/SF qu'il avait.
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