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I Am Legend (2007) More at IMDbPro »
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
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Francis Lawrence Takes ‘Sgt. Rock’ to the Future
2 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Borys Kit over at Heat Vision is reporting today that the long-gestating Sgt. Rock movie is being given to a new creative team by producer Joel Silver. Silver, who is producing through is company Silver Pictures, had originally set up Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie to work on the script and direct, but has since moved him to the DC Comics adaptation of Lobo. Now, Silver is bringing in I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence to direct Sgt. Rock, with scribe Chad St. John on to work on the script. Up to this point, the Sgt. Rock project has retained the World War II setting of the original DC Comic, in which Sgt. Frank Rock is the leader of the infantry unit known as Easy Company. But now according to this new report, Silver and Co. are looking to move the project to a futuristic setting. The success of Inglourious Basterds notwithstanding, period »
- Neil Miller
Sgt. Rock Movie Gets a New Director… and a New Time Period
3 hours ago | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Producer Joel Silver has been struggling to bring WWII comic book hero Sgt. Rock to the big screen for almost 20 years now, with the script undergoing a ton of rewrites and people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis once under consideration to star. This week it looks like he has finally managed to convince Warner Brothers to back the movie, although he may be forced to make some compromises in order to get it off the ground. Heat Vision [1] reports that I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence has signed on to helm the film, taking over for Guy Ritchie who was previously attached [2] (he has since moved on to direct Lobo). The latest draft of the script was written by Chad St. John, who also penned the upcoming remake of Outland. Akiva Goldsman will co-produce with Silver. Now, here's the thing that's going to worry Sgt. Rock fans: apparently they »
- Sean
Will Smith Goes for Broke With Flowers For Algernon
3 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Now that the Smith / Spielberg version of Oldboy has reportedly died a well-deserved death (it's like there's a real version of The Box out there and some lucky Park Chan-Wook fan pushed the button -- do something good with your million bucks, buddy, you earned it!) Will Smith will have to look for other ways to bridge the gap between mainstream success like I Am Legend and the critical praise one suspects he really desires. So, it's come to this: Smith is reportedly looking to star in Flowers for Algernon. The Playlist already took the obvious headline here ("Megastar Goes Full Retard") so I'll have to settle for relating the deal. Pajiba says that Smith is setting up an adaptation of the novel at Sony, where he'll produce and star. Gabriele Muccino, director of Smith's last two awards plays (Seven Pounds and The Pursuit of Happyness) may direct. If you'll »
- Russ Fischer
Joel Silver Finally Revives Sgt. Rock By Bringing Him To The Future
3 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
No matter what Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Quentin Tarantino may have done for the war movie, World War II is still not hip with American moviegoers apparently. Joel Silver has spent 20 years trying to make a movie based on the DC Comics Sgt. Rock character, and only now, by setting the movie in the future, has he actually pulled it off. According to THR, I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence will take over on Sgt. Rock, with Akiva Goldsman writing the script and producing as well. Sgt. Rock had always been a World War II character in the comics, even though he debuted in 1958, near the beginning of the Vietnam War. THR notes that Sgt. Rock had been a symbol of American jingoism, and that even G.I. Joe was getting out of that racket, having dropped the "Real American Hero" tag in the latest movie. There's no telling if »
'Sgt. Rock' Movie To Be Set In The Future, New Writer & Director Attached
4 hours ago | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Guy Ritchie's attachment to "Sgt. Rock" was immediately put in question once the filmmaker was announced for "Lobo," but now the question has been answered—Ritchie is out and a new team is in for the DC war hero's big-screen debut.
"I Am Legend" helmer Francis Lawrence is the latest director attached to the long-developing "Sgt. Rock" film, based on a new screenplay from Chad St. John. Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman, two names with plenty of comic book connections, are producing the picture. Despite the departure of Ritchie, the addition of a new director-writer team means that fans of the classic World War II hero can hope to see Rock on the big screen before too long.
Except that Sgt. Rock won't be a World War II hero in this version—instead, he's heading into the future.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that the surprising decision to jettison the »
- Josh Wigler
'Sgt. Rock' Won't Be Set in World War II
5 hours ago | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
No, this isn't what we need: Sgt. Rock is heading to the future. The Hollywood Reporter says the DC Comics series, in various stages of non-development for quite a while, is getting a fresh start with I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence.
At one point, Guy Ritchie was in talks for this one, but producers Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman have settled on Lawrence, who will be working from a script by newcomer Chad St. John. It's not immediately clear if a move to the future means just bringing Sarge out of World War II and into a contemporary environment or if this will actually be futuristic in some way. Regardless, it's the wrong approach. »
- Colin Boyd
Francis Lawrence And Chad St. John Report For Duty With Sgt. Rock
6 hours ago | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
It seems that the WWII comic-book hero Sgt. Rock is no longer in a hard place, with the long-simmering film looking closer to a greenlight with I Am Legend's Francis Lawrence attached to direct and Chad St. Johnfuriously scribbling a script.
Joel Silver , who has been championing the project for nigh on two decades has joined forces with fellow super-producer Akiva Goldsman to get this mo-fo made for Warner Bros.
And although the comic was firmly rooted in the conflicts of World War II, the film will be transported to the future in a bid to make it a more attractive prospect for audiences who have lost interest in the less dramatic takes on the historical war genre - as pointed out by the tepid response to this year's Inglourious Basterds.
Guy Ritchie was originally attached to direct the project but has since moved on to DC Comics' Lobo. »
Is Sgt. Rock Finally Happening?
11 hours ago | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The only things certain in life are death and taxes.” Well, if the former Us President had lived to see the present day, he doubtless would have added one more thing to the list: “…and Joel Silver trying to make Sgt. Rock.”Silver has been trying to get an adaptation of the DC Comics’ World War II-based, cigar-chewing, bullet-spewing tough guy hero off the ground for as long as Empire can remember. So long, in fact, that Arnold Schwarzenegger was tipped to play Rock for a long time, and virtually every action writer worth a damn in Hollywood has taken a crack at the script, from Brian Helgeland to Steven E. DeSouza to John Milius. And all to no avail.Most recently, Guy Ritchie, of all people, took a stab at it, attaching himself to direct, before moving onto another comic book for Silver, Lobo.But »
Sgt. Rock Now Serving Under Director Francis Lawrence
12 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It’s taken nearly twenty years for Producer Joel Silver to bring DC Comics’ Sgt. Rock to the big screen. The film has passed through numerous writers and directors and even in today’s comic-book-hero drenched cinema landscape, but it’s hard out there for a guy who just wants to serve his country even though he has no superpowers. Now it looks like I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence is going take a shot at enlisting the character. Hit the jump for details.
According to Heat Vision, Lawrence is attached to direct Sgt. Rock with Chad St. John handling the script. Silver will team up with the world’s best paid and lousiest writer Akiva Goldsman to produce the film.
Sgt. Frank Rock, leader of his infantry unit, Easy Company (but definitely not like the Easy Company soldiers featured in Band of Brothers) first appeared in a 1959 issue of »
- Matt Goldberg
Francis Lawrence Takes Sgt. Rock Into…the Future!
13 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Looks like not all of Joel Silver's long-simmering DC Comics projects (er, sorry -- DC Entertainment) have been recalled. He's been moving veerrrryyy slowly on a Sgt. Rock adaptation, with a few scripts written over the years, but now finally has some forward momentum. If things go well, we might soon have a Sgt. Rock film written by Chad St. John and directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine). The character has been battling through the DC Universe since the late '50s, and became popular enough that his book Our Army at War was renamed Sgt. Rock in the late '70s. Appropriately enough, he was a WWII character, serving to shepherd a young reader's gestating image of Us soldiers in the aftermath of the Korean War, as Vietnam raged, and through the ugly fallout of the latter. Did Rambo and other mid to late '80s »
- Russ Fischer
Will Smith Taking on 'Flowers for Algernon'?
13 hours ago | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Another non-confirmed bit o' casting goodness, which comes to us from Pajiba. How's this strike you: Will Smith to produce and star in an update of Flowers for Algernon? There are a plenty of details here and taken at face value, it's not too hard a story to believe.
According to Pajiba's source, Smiths's Overbrook Entertainment will partner up with Polsky Films and Tracy Nyberg, an associate producer on Hancock and Smith's assistant during the production of I Am Legend to steer this update of the 1959 novel, which won Cliff Robertson the Best Actor trophy in 1969 (that version was called Charly).
It's time to bring Kirk Lazarus into the discussion: Smith shouldn't go "full retard," although the temptation has to be pretty powerful. Big Willie Style would play a mentally retarded man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. It works, by the way: Charlie attains a genius-level Iq, »
- Colin Boyd
Lady Gaga Launches Her Next Phase With Eye-Grabbing 'Bad Romance' Video
13 hours ago | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Francis Lawrence-directed clip is eye-catching and conceptual.
Lady Gaga in the "Bad Romance" video
Photo: Interscope/Universal
The wait is over! On Tuesday (November 10), after 24 hours spent frantically refreshing LadyGaga.com for its scheduled Monday premiere, fans were finally treated to the premiere of Gaga's much-discussed "Bad Romance" video. And needless to say, it was worth the wait.
Directed by Francis Lawrence — who's helmed clips for the likes of Britney, Justin, Gwen and Shakira, not to mention the post-apocalyptic Will Smith vehicle "I Am Legend" — and featuring countless costume changes (and one unearthly pair of Alexander McQueen heels), partial nudity, and choreography that runs the gamut from spooky to sexy, "Bad Romance" is very much an event, the kind of video you just don't see very often anymore — and that goes double for the anticipation surrounding it.
"Romance" was supposed to premiere Monday on Gaga.com, »
Sgt. Rock is Back … But Not in WWII
15 hours ago | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
It seems like everyone with some action movie clout has tried to make a “Sgt. Rock” movie at one point or another in Hollywood, with each big name eventually falling by the wayside. The latest stab at bringing the tough Sergeant and his merry killing men to the big screen comes courtesy of Warner Bros., who has attached “I am Legend” director Francis Lawrence to lead the charge. The catch? Forget WWII, the boys are done fighting Nazis. The movie will be based on the D.C. Comic that starred Sgt. Frank Rock, the Thompson-armed leader of Easy Company, who first appeared in a 1959 issue of “Our Army at War” before it was renamed “Sgt. Rock” in 1977. The comic ran until 1988, and usually featured Rock and his Easy Company doing impossible missions behind enemy lines. The last director attached to the project was Brit Guy Ritchie, but he’s since »
- Nix
Francis Lawrence to Direct Sgt. Rock
16 hours ago | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Heat Vision Blog is reporting that I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence will direct Sgt. Rock, based on the WWII hero from DC Comics, from a script by Chad St. John.
Joel Silver, who has been steering the project for nearly 20 years, is teaming with Akiva Goldsman, who recently boarded as producer, to bring the project to the big screen via Warner Bros.
Sgt. Frank Rock was the leader of his infantry unit, Easy Company. He first appeared in a 1959 issue of "Our Army at War." In 1977, the comic was renamed Sgt. Rock and ran until 1988.
Until now, Sgt. Rock has retained its World War II setting, with Silver and the studio trying to make a big-budget action adventure movie that was a throwback to flicks like The Dirty Dozen, which feature acts of American derring-do.
The studio hopes moving the time period to the future solves the dilemma.
No production date was announced. »
I Am Sgt. Rock
16 hours ago | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Apparently Joel Silver has been laboring for 20 years to have DC's WWII non-superpowered hero Sergeant Rock on the big screen. Silver and producing partner Akiva Goldsman feel that the latest director they've attached to the project will be the one to finally make it happen. Warner and Silver Pictures have tapped I Am Legend helmer Francis Lawrence to direct the Sgt Rock movie from a modern-take script by Chad St-John, a newcomer who's also working on an update to the Sean Connery... »
- Tony Lang
Will Smith Buying Flowers for Algernon?
9 November 2009 9:42 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
It wouldn't be Monday without a rumor or two. We kick off today's spinning of the rumor-mill with a story from the folks at Pajiba, who seem to be more than on top of Hollywood lately. According to their "inside source," multi-hyphenate Will Smith is developing an adaptation of the classic Daniel Keyes story Flowers for Algernon, in which he will star as well as produce. For those who missed the fifth grade, Algernon follows the story of Charlie, a mentally handicapped man who is the first human test subject in an experimental surgery that artificially increases intelligence. After seeing his Iq go from 68 to 185 following the surgery, Charlie loses the ability to socialize normally and becomes alienated from those around him. As Charlie begins to learn the truth behind the effects of the surgery -- as seen through the reaction of a mouse test subject named Algernon -- he is struck with the weight of how »
- Neil Miller
Lady Gaga Says 'Bad Romance' Video Is About 'Tough Female Spirit'
9 November 2009 12:56 AM, PST | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Clip premieres on her site Monday.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway
Photo: MTV News
Lady Gaga may already have plenty of celebrity friends these days, but in the Francis Lawrence-directed video for "Bad Romance" (the first video from her forthcoming release, The Fame Monster), there's a devilish group of supermodels who have their eyes on making Gaga their newest bestie.
"I knew [Lawrence's] ability as a director is so much higher than what I could [do]," Gaga explained to MTV News last week. "There's this one shot in the video where I get kidnapped by supermodels. I'm washing away my sins and they shove vodka down my throat to drug me up before they sell me off to the Russian mafia."
As if being kidnapped by supermodels before being sold off to the Russian mafia isn't bizarre enough, Gaga also decided to step up her fashion »
10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
- - -
- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
- - -
- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
10 Most Fascinating 'End of the World' Movies
8 November 2009 4:59 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
- - -
- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
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