Tuesday, November 3
After the box office disappointment of his last movie, Taking Woodstock, director Ang Lee is apparently looking to adapt an award-winning novel from Canada next. Averaging one feature every two years since The Hulk in 2003, Lee said that his next project "is two years ahead," but he told Digital Spy that he has a story in mind.
I think I'm going to do Life of Pi. A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It's a hard one to crack.
Written by Yann Martel and originally published in 2001, Life of Pi tells the story of Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, a young Indian boy stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker." The British edition of Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the year after its release, and M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening), Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (A Very Long Engagement) have all been attached to direct the adaptation at one point or another in the past. Lee said that he hasn't done any casting yet, but he is currently working on a draft of the script.
I think I've cracked the structure of the movie and I'll figure out how to do it later. How exactly I'm going to do it, I don't know!
Posted 11/3/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Ang Lee | The Hulk | A Very Long Engagement | Children of Men | The Happening | Taking Woodstock
Tuesday, October 7
You Don't Mess With the Zohan, starring funnyman Adam Sandler as the titular Mossad Agent-turned-hairstylist, leads off this week's DVD Tuesday. Also debuting on DVD today: M. Night Shyamalan's R-rated critic-pleaserThe Happening, starring animal lover Mark Wahlberg; Slacker Uprising, the latest documentary from provocateur Michael Moore; and Thomas McCarthy's highly acclaimed indie drama The Visitor.
Our DVD pick of the week is Disney's newly-restored animated classic Sleeping Beauty, now awakening for the first time on sparkling Blu-ray.
Posted 10/7/2008 by reelz
Related: Sleeping Beauty | You Don't Mess With the Zohan | The Visitor | The Happening | Slacker Uprising
Wednesday, June 11
Writer/director/paranoiac M. Night Shyamalan comes out with a new psychological thriller this weekend with The Happening. Perhaps a refresher of his previous twist endings will help us predict what he has up his sleeve this time.
Take a stab at our M. Night Shyamalan quiz and see if you can match the twist ending to the correct movie.
Next Showing: The Happening hits theaters Friday, June 13.
Posted 6/11/2008 by reelz
Related: M. Night Shyamalan | The Happening
Friday, May 30
M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller, The Happening, is hitting screens June 13th. Will this one be a comeback after the disappoint of The Village and the truly terrible Lady in the Water?
Well, if you're still on the fence about this one like we are, check out this gallery of new Happening pics under the "photos" tab on our Happening page and see what you think.
Posted 5/30/2008 by reelz
Related: The Happening
Wednesday, July 18
Super-secretive thrill-monger M. Night Shyamalan is at it again. The writer-director is putting together his next movie, The Happening, a thriller about a man (Mark Wahlberg) who tries to save his family when a natural disaster threatens to end the world.
John Leguizamo and Spencer Breslin (brother of Little Miss Sunshine cutie Abigail) have recently joined the cast.
As anyone who watches Entourage knows, Shyamalan is notoriously hush-hush about his projects (neurotic paranoia might be a better description). Thus, not much else is known about the movie--other than it begins filming next month in Philadelphia (of course).
Posted 7/18/2007 by reelz
Related: John Leguizamo | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg | Spencer Breslin | Zooey Deschanel | The Happening