8/12/2011

Sure Shots: Stephen King; Scott Glenn; David Fincher talks 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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* Stephen King's crazy sounding sci-fi JFK assassination novel, 11/22/63, doesn't even come out until November, and already it's further ahead in being adapted for the big screen than some flicks we've been talking about for months. Variety reports that Jonathan Demme, who last helmed Rachel Getting Married a few years ago, will write, produce, and direct an adaptation of the book. Shooting won't get underway until late next year.

* I know a lot of people despised Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, but come on, you had to like Scott Glenn, right? Whatever, the veteran actor isn't going away anytime soon. In fact he's about to get super busy. He's now set to reprise his role as CIA Director Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Legacy, the spinoff flick starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Ed Norton, and Oscar Isaac, directed by Tony Gilroy. And if that's not enough, Glenn will add his talents to The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' film based on Pete Dexter's crime novel about a pair of brothers investigating the guilt of a convicted murderer. Zac Efron, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, and David Oyelowo are set to star. [Variety]

* After developing Zodiac, The Social Network, and his take on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher doing something as obviously mainstream as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea seems a little weird. But the director's career has always been hard to pin down, even if his use of digital elements in his films has been a constant. At a recent Q&A, the director revealed he's about to use more digital effects than ever before, and that Leagues will likely be 70% CG. He also professed a love for performance capture, the technique refined by the likes of Robert Zemeckis, and about to be featured heavily in The Adventures of Tintin.