Back in March, we brought you the new when Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's production company Imagine Entertainment teamed up with Julie Yorn's LBI Entertainment to develop a new take on George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. Now, Deadline reports that [...]
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Imagine Entertainment Producing New Adaptation of Orwell’s 1984
Way back in (surprise!) 1984, there was a Michael Radford (King Lear) directed big0screen adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984, which starred John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton. Surprisingly, there hasn't been an adaptation of the novel [...]
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Ron Howard to Direct Universal’s Superpowered 364
Universal Pictures has acquired writer-director David Guggenheim's (Safe House) script for 364. The project's title refers to the number of days each year that a normal guy spends trying to figure out what heroic deeds he will perform on the single [...]
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Ron Howard Takes Mad Magazine’s SPY VS. SPY To The Big Screen
The black spy and white spy of Spy vs. Spy really take “Anything you can do, I can do better” to heart. Spy vs. Spy began as a black and white comic strip in Mad Magazine in 1961 and over [...]
Read moreThe Runner: Walt Disney Pictures Grabs The Rights To Sci-Fi Film
Walt Disney Pictures has nabbed the rights to Dave Andron's (Justified) screenplay The Runner, a sci-fi thriller about a man in 2027 who is sent back in time to stop an attack that will render the earth uninhabitable. The traveler [...]
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Nick Percival’s LEGENDS: The Enchanted Being Adapted By Imagine Entertainment
Brian Grazer (Cowboys & Aliens) and Ron Howard's (Angels & Demons) Imagine Entertainment (Robin Hood) and Radical Pictures (The Last Days of American Crime) are joining forces to adapt Nick Percival's graphic novel, Legends: The Enchanted for the big screen Check [...]
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