The "Barbarella" remake rose from the ashes of Robert Rodriguez’s now-defunct vision of the film and snagged a fairly good director in the form of Robert Luketic ("Legally Blonde," "21"). Now comes word that "Barbarella" has hired a writer named…Joe Gazzam?
In an effort to answer the question, 'Who is Joe Gazzam?' Screen Rant went searching on the Interweb and turned up the following info from the Web site Film Industry Bloggers:
Joe Gazzam recently sold his first two scripts, entitled “Riot” and “Straight & Narrow”. He’s currently completing an assignment for Sony to write the film version of the hit TV show “21 Jump Street.” He also sold his first show entitled “Deputized” to the Sci-fi Network.
Barbarella is about a female mercenary who roams the universe of a distant future, undertaking missions that require fearlessness, ingenuity and sensuality. The character first debuted in 1962 in a French graphic magazine written and illustrated by Jean-Claude Forest and was known for her sexual escapades. Luketic's new take on the iconic character will not be campy, though it will keep the sexuality - there will be seductions, but the focus will be on the adventure. This is no longer setup at Universal, but is in development under producer Dino De Laurentiis.
Why did the studio tap a relatively untested writer to handle the script for "Barbarella?" Maybe there is something specific about Gazzam’s yet-to-be-seen writing style that the filmmakers thought echoed the tone of the film they want to make? Or is it that Gazzam - who does show promise, looking over that list of upcoming projects - was the best talent for their thrifty buck?
Are you familiar with Joe Gazzam? What do you think about him being tapped as the writer of Barbarella?
PREACHER Coming Soon had a very brief chat with Sam Mendes where it was asked how the 66-issue series (not including the specials) would be covered in one (or more) movie(s):
“Oh, he wouldn’t do the entire series in one movie. It would be impossible to do all nine volumes in one movie, that would be one long movie, and it wouldn’t do justice of it. It will not attempt to do all of it, but there’s so much wonderful stuff that I wouldn’t know what to leave out.”
"Preacher" is based on the successful mid-nineties Vertigo comic series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and tells the story of Reverend Jesse Custer who unwittingly becomes host to an angel-demon hybrid entity known as Genesis. Due to the entity’s split-nature of pure good and evil, Genesis is powerful enough to rival God himself. The plots follows Custer on his adventure discovering who he is and what he can do as he hunts down God who abandoned Heaven as Genesis was born.
I still think it would have been awesome as an episodic series on HBO.
DEADPOOL Back in May, it was confirmed that Fox is moving forward with a "Deadpool" spin-off starring Ryan Reynolds. We heard plenty off-and-on from Reynolds during "Wolverine's" release about the possibility of a "Deadpool" spin-off, but now HitFix has another brief quote from Reynolds after its official announcement, and it sounds like it's moving along fairly quickly. But will any of this hold up?
"Well, I'm intimately involved with it. We're just trying to break a story right now and figure out who the villain is going to be and all that stuff. But, it's going to be just like the comic books. I'm gonna have a messed up face and you may see some flashbacks of Wade earlier in his life, but primarily what you see is what you get in the comics and that's the goal. And there is no better place to draw material from then the comics which are incredible."
I think Reynolds will be a great Wade Wilson/ Deadpool and I don't know how they are going to relate the film to "Wolverine." I just don't trust Fox with comic book adaptions anymore. I just don't.
BARBARELLA Back in May, Rodriguez explained to MTV News that his "Barbarella" remake was dead in the water because the only way he could get the funding he needed was to move the production to Germany, which he didn't want to do. However, word is that "Legally Blonde" director Rob Luketic is now working with Dino De Laurentiis' company (which owns the rights to the property) to develop the movie with a different studio (instead of Universal).
"It will be a big intergalactic adventure with a sexy twist," an insider at EW said.
I think Rodriguez would have made the remake awesome. Luketic better not plan on making it some kind of romantic comedy.
BIOSHOCK Gore Verbinski spoke with the LA Times recently and when asked about "BioShock," admitted that with halt in production and Universal's desire to move the entire project outside of the US to cut costs, he isn't sure if he can, or wants, do it anymore.
"There's a great script and a really interesting cast," he said." It really comes down to the financial model now. Big movies are just not being shot in the States. I'm weighing whether I can physically go the U.K. or Australia or one of those other places with a tax rebate for a year-and-a-half."
I think Verbinski would have had a wonderful vision for this film, but alas, he is an expensive director ("Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is one of the most expensive movies ever made).
WHERE'S WALDO Universal has picked up the movie rights to the popular children's books series "Where's Waldo?" from Classic Media with the aim of making a live-action family movie. No word on a writer or director yet, only a producer - Chris Meledandri.
The "Barbarella" remake rose from the ashes of Robert Rodriguez’s now-defunct vision of the film and snagged a fairly good director in the form of Robert Luketic ("Legally Blonde," "21"). Now comes word that "Barbarella" has hired a writer named…Joe Gazzam?
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