John Collee.
Tanna scribe John Collee is writing video game adaptation Just Cause for Warner Bros. and director Brad Peyton (San Andreas).
Set to star Jason Momoa (Aquaman), the film is based on the Avalanche Studios game which follows Rico Rodriguez (Momoa), an operative for a shadowy organization called the Agency whose mission is to help overthrow a South American dictator.
Collee describes the feature as his "first pure action film.".
"I think I freaked the game manufacturers out a little bit by saying we.ve got to locate this in a real moral and psychological world. He.s always indestructible in the game and he blows up lots of shit and it.s great fun, but a film is different in that you.ve got to have a moral context for all this stuff to happen in. What.s in it for him? What.s the difference between a...
Tanna scribe John Collee is writing video game adaptation Just Cause for Warner Bros. and director Brad Peyton (San Andreas).
Set to star Jason Momoa (Aquaman), the film is based on the Avalanche Studios game which follows Rico Rodriguez (Momoa), an operative for a shadowy organization called the Agency whose mission is to help overthrow a South American dictator.
Collee describes the feature as his "first pure action film.".
"I think I freaked the game manufacturers out a little bit by saying we.ve got to locate this in a real moral and psychological world. He.s always indestructible in the game and he blows up lots of shit and it.s great fun, but a film is different in that you.ve got to have a moral context for all this stuff to happen in. What.s in it for him? What.s the difference between a...
- 5/1/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Throughout history, a whole lot of murders have taken place at the hands of women named Mary. On the most appropriate night of the year to do so, Investigation Discovery collects together a handful of those real life tales for a horrific Halloween special appropriately titled "Bloody Marys."
From the Press Release
Legend has it that Bloody Mary was a ruthless killer, whose soul could be summoned by a simple ritual that unleashes a vengeful woman’s wrath. Though reciting “Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary!” into a mirror may be just a scary slumber party prank, it’s true that some of history’s most brutal female killers have borne the name of Mary. After all, Mary was the most popular name for females in the English-speaking world from the 1800s to the 1960s. In Investigation Discovery’s all-new special Bloody Marys, explore chilling tales of these notorious, like-named...
From the Press Release
Legend has it that Bloody Mary was a ruthless killer, whose soul could be summoned by a simple ritual that unleashes a vengeful woman’s wrath. Though reciting “Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary!” into a mirror may be just a scary slumber party prank, it’s true that some of history’s most brutal female killers have borne the name of Mary. After all, Mary was the most popular name for females in the English-speaking world from the 1800s to the 1960s. In Investigation Discovery’s all-new special Bloody Marys, explore chilling tales of these notorious, like-named...
- 10/4/2013
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
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Who is the greatest fictional detective? Holmes? Marlowe? Marple?
Philip Marlowe didn't solve all his crimes; his main business was doing what his clients wanted and getting beaten up occasionally. He never sorted out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep (unsurprisingly, because Raymond Chandler, when asked, didn't know either). So it must be one of the other two, and I don't know whether to prefer Holmes because he did it with cocaine or Marple because she did it with knitting. Could we compromise on Father Brown?
jno50
For me, the greatest fictional detective is the virtually unknown Nigel Strangeways, created by Nicholas Blake (which was the pen name of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis). If you're into detective fiction I highly recommend checking him out (secondhand only, though, as just about all the books are out of print,...
Who is the greatest fictional detective? Holmes? Marlowe? Marple?
Philip Marlowe didn't solve all his crimes; his main business was doing what his clients wanted and getting beaten up occasionally. He never sorted out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep (unsurprisingly, because Raymond Chandler, when asked, didn't know either). So it must be one of the other two, and I don't know whether to prefer Holmes because he did it with cocaine or Marple because she did it with knitting. Could we compromise on Father Brown?
jno50
For me, the greatest fictional detective is the virtually unknown Nigel Strangeways, created by Nicholas Blake (which was the pen name of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis). If you're into detective fiction I highly recommend checking him out (secondhand only, though, as just about all the books are out of print,...
- 4/4/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
They're all over the screen with their floppy fringes and cut-glass accents. Are posh actors edging out working-class talent?
He appears in Downton Abbey, one of a wave of TV dramas centred on class, and in the Radio Times this week the actor Rob James-Collier was asked whether working-class talent was being squeezed out of the profession. James-Collier was born in Stockport, and defines himself as working class, and his answer was direct. As with so many other jobs at the moment, he said, you have to work for no money when starting out, and "how on earth are you going to finance that" if you don't come from a wealthy background?
His comments tapped into a question that has arisen repeatedly this year. Can anyone but the exceptionally well-heeled, wealthy, connected upper classes now make it in the arts? In acting, in particular, the question was thrown into sharp relief in January,...
He appears in Downton Abbey, one of a wave of TV dramas centred on class, and in the Radio Times this week the actor Rob James-Collier was asked whether working-class talent was being squeezed out of the profession. James-Collier was born in Stockport, and defines himself as working class, and his answer was direct. As with so many other jobs at the moment, he said, you have to work for no money when starting out, and "how on earth are you going to finance that" if you don't come from a wealthy background?
His comments tapped into a question that has arisen repeatedly this year. Can anyone but the exceptionally well-heeled, wealthy, connected upper classes now make it in the arts? In acting, in particular, the question was thrown into sharp relief in January,...
- 3/7/2012
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
Ewan McGregor is set to combine his love of motorbikes with his movie career in a forthcoming Australian film. The flick, about a real-life shoot-out between rival biker gangs, sees Ewan team up with Moulin Rouge producer Martin Brown to turn one of the bloodiest episodes in Sydney's history - the Milperra massacre - into a big screen spectacle. Brown says, "People like the idea of a biker flick. There hasn't been one for a while - a powerful, hard-core, rock'n'roll biker film." The film views the massacre - in which seven people died in a shoot-out between rival bike clubs in 1984 - through the eyes of 'Snoddy' Spencer, the president of one of the gangs, the Bandidos. McGregor is being lined up to play the Scots-born Comanchero leader Jock Ross. Brown agrees the project will be a creative leap from Moulin Rouge for both him and McGregor. He says, "After four years working on a musical, the biker culture has a certain appeal. But everything is about the story. This is just a great, powerful story."...
- 5/31/2001
- WENN
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