Posted on Jun 01, 2009 under Action, Adventure, Book-to-Movie, Books, Directors, Fantasy, Movie News, Sci-Fi, classic, producers |
Tom Swift adventure novels have been imagined for the big screen since the late 1960’s when Gene Kelly almost 
directed the film as a musical. A Swift movie was even planned in the 1970’s but never made it to production. It looks like Columbia Pictures is committed to bring the boy genius to the big screen from a pitch by Barry Sonnenfeld and Ben David Grabinski. Swift is described as a reimagining of the Tom Swift adventure novels. Sonnenfeld will direct.
As a history lesson according to Variety, the Tom Swift character first appeared in a series of books that launched in 1910. The original books were outlined by Edward Stratemeyer, written by ghostwriters and credited to pseudonym Victor Appleton.
Sonnenfeld and Grabinski’s version would feature Swift as one-half of a father-son team who are among the greatest inventors of all time.
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Action comedy The How-To Guide for Saving the World is set to be directed and produced by Barry Sonnenfeld from BenDavid Grabinski’s script.
The story focuses on an instruction manual for saving the world left behind by a secret group that protects the Earth from alien invaders but is wiped out.
“Unfortunately, a non-action-hero guy not unlike me, in terms of manliness, and a woman who hates him find the book and have to save the planet from an impending attack,” Sonnenfeld told Variety.
The director credits include Get Shorty, Men in Black and Addams Family.
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MTV News reports that director Barry Sonnenfeld is looking at pop artist Justin Timberlake to be the possible lead star of Moist, his upcoming dark comedy.
The film will be based on the novel by Mark Haskell Smith, following a morgue attendant who comes across a severed arm with an erotic tattoo of a woman he falls for. In trying to figure out who she is, he ends up becoming the kingpin of the Los Angeles Mexican mafia, replacing the man who the severed arm belonged to in the first place.
Sonnenfeld had previously tried to get the movie up and running but fell through due to financial issues. He is now actively talking to studios once again about the project.
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