Anybody who saw the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predator sequel, Predators, a few years ago, will recognize it as a return to form for the franchise, albeit one that brought together a team of cultural stereotypes, gave them weapons, and killed them off one by one until only the good-looking characters remained. Hey, what are you gonna do?
Now Michael Finch, who wrote half of that script for Predators, looks to be assembling a new team of characters for another horror-ish production, one which is currently titled Hellified (whatever that means) and there’s absolutely nothing we can do to change that. Except, well, complain, I suppose. The film is to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura based on a spec script by Andy Burg, who’s about to get his words all tramped on.
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Now Michael Finch, who wrote half of that script for Predators, looks to be assembling a new team of characters for another horror-ish production, one which is currently titled Hellified (whatever that means) and there’s absolutely nothing we can do to change that. Except, well, complain, I suppose. The film is to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura based on a spec script by Andy Burg, who’s about to get his words all tramped on.
The plot – if you can call it that (and we legally don’t think you can...
- 12/18/2012
- by T.J. Barnard
- We Got This Covered
In development at Paramount for some time , Hellified has received a new writer in Predators ' Michael Finch, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . Originally scripted by Andy Burg, the film follows a team of criminals who travel to Hell itself to prevent the apocalypse. Dan Bradley ( Red Dawn ) was formerly attached to direct, but the project is currently without an announced helmer. Producers on Hellified include Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian.
- 12/18/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Three years ago, Paramount bought a spec script called Hellified from writer Andy Burg, who wrote family film Alaska way back in the day. Now the studio is getting the film moving once again, with the news that Predators co-writer Michael Finch has been hired to rewrite the movie, which sees a strike force made up of criminals sent into hell to prevent the End Of Days.Now that's quite a cool notion, if you ask us. Heavily armed thugs vs. demons! Hellspawn vs. Hell's Angels! (Or whatever gangs one finds in jail these days) And an apocalypse to avert along the way. There are echoes of Jeff Long's book The Descent in that concept, which is no bad thing, but that involved a less mythological hell (at least until the sequel, Deeper).The original Hellified script was heavy on the CG and involved the traditional hordes of demons...
- 12/18/2012
- EmpireOnline
A writer has been tapped for Hellified from Paramount and Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Dan Bradley is no longer attached to direct. Read on for all the latest details lest your soul be damned to the inferno for all eternity!
THR reports that Michael Finch, who co-wrote 2010’s Predators, will be the scribe to bring us Hellified, a supernatural action project set at Paramount and being produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures.
Originally picked up in June 2009 as a spec by Andy Burg, the story follows a strike force, comprised of criminals, that goes to hell in order to stop the End of Days. Second-unit director and stunt coordinator-turned-Red Dawn director Dan Bradley was attached at the time, when hell was conceived as a CGI-created inferno overrun by demons.
The project has been scaled back in the VFX department (and with Bradley gone) to accommodate a more moderate budget, and hell...
THR reports that Michael Finch, who co-wrote 2010’s Predators, will be the scribe to bring us Hellified, a supernatural action project set at Paramount and being produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures.
Originally picked up in June 2009 as a spec by Andy Burg, the story follows a strike force, comprised of criminals, that goes to hell in order to stop the End of Days. Second-unit director and stunt coordinator-turned-Red Dawn director Dan Bradley was attached at the time, when hell was conceived as a CGI-created inferno overrun by demons.
The project has been scaled back in the VFX department (and with Bradley gone) to accommodate a more moderate budget, and hell...
- 12/18/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Michael Finch, who co-wrote 2010’s Predators, has been tapped to write Hellified, a supernatural action project set at Paramount and being produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures that is getting a new breath of life. Originally picked up in June 2009 as a spec by Andy Burg, the story follows a strike force, comprised of criminals, that goes to Hell in order to stop the End of Days. Second-unit director and stunt coordinator-turned-Red Dawn director Dan Bradley was attached at the time, when Hell was conceived as a CGI-created inferno overrun by demons. The project has
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- 12/18/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New jobs seem like the industry's version of summer vacations this year. Kerry Foster, former president of production for producer-writer-director Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures, has joined Chernin Entertainment as an executive for the company's film division, Deadline reported. She will report to Executive Vice President Jenno Topping. Before spending seven years at Weed Road, Foster was vice president of production at Pandemonium Films for four years.Deadline also reported that producer and manager Bryan Brucks will lead the literary division of Luber Roklin Entertainment, a management company that reps actors and writers for film and TV. With Brendan McDonald, Brucks formerly co-owned management and production company Brucks/McDonald Entertainment, where his clients included writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, Emmy nominee Ben Schwartz, Fernley Phillps, Andy Burg, Adam Mason, Simon Boyes, Rachel Specter, Audrey Wauchope, and Paul Sloan. They are expected to follow Brucks to Luber Roklin. His producing credits include.
- 8/3/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Bryan Brucks is joining Luber Roklin Entertainment to head up their literary division. Brucks who ran his own company, will bring over his clients including Black List writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, Emmy nominee Ben Schwartz, Fernley Phillps, Andy Burg, Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, Rachel Specter/Audrey Wauchope, and Paul Sloan. As a producer he has two films in post: the Joe Johnston-directed Not Safe For Work for Universal and Blumhouse, and Kill For Me at Sony and Stage Six. He’s also producing Boy Scouts vs Zombies at Paramount, which has Etan Cohen attached to direct. “Bryan is a seasoned veteran in this town with valuable experience as an executive and a manager,” said Luber Roklin principal Matt Luber. “He has great taste in material, has great clients and understands how to put movies together. We are happy to have him.”...
- 8/2/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline TV
Bryan Brucks is joining Luber Roklin Entertainment to head up their literary division. Brucks who ran his own company, will bring over his clients including Black List writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, Emmy nominee Ben Schwartz, Fernley Phillps, Andy Burg, Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, Rachel Specter/Audrey Wauchope, and Paul Sloan. As a producer he has two films in post: the Joe Johnston-directed Not Safe For Work for Universal and Blumhouse, and Kill For Me at Sony and Stage Six. He’s also producing Boy Scouts vs Zombies at Paramount, which has Etan Cohen attached to direct. “Bryan is a seasoned veteran in this town with valuable experience as an executive and a manager,” said Luber Roklin principal Matt Luber. “He has great taste in material, has great clients and understands how to put movies together. We are happy to have him.”...
- 8/2/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
While re-imagining well-known fairy tales such as Snow White are all the rage in Hollywood, you can now add Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to the list of classic characters getting a makeover. While the storyline is being kept under wraps, Paramount has picked up a script from Bedtime Stories scribe Andy Burg titled Huck. The film revolves around the characters created by Mark Twain in his 1876 novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and three additional books. The project is being described as a re-imagining in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, focusing on Tom and Huck as adults. There's also supernatural elements in the script, though what exactly is unknown. No director has been attached yet, but the project does have the support of Rise of the Planet of the Apes...
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- 3/22/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
I remember reading Mark Twain in high school. I believe one of those books was a Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventure. I don’t remember what book that was, since I rarely remember too much from books that are assigned reading. When you force me to do something, my response is to do it, but I ain’t rememberin’ it. It’s a good thing Paramount is around to help me remember these things. The studio plans on “re-imagining” Twain’s two teenage creations as adult men. But that’s not all! The studio has picked up a spec script by Andy Burg called “Huck” that will re-imagine the two heroes as adventurin’ adults, including supernatural shenanigans in the plot. Curious they’re calling it “Huck”, though. Why not “Tom and Huck”? Or, my personal favorite, “Huck This!”. (Exclamation point included, of course.) This wouldn’t exactly be the...
- 3/22/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
One thing’s for sure; if you want to bring a classic story back to the screen, you’ve got to change the name. “Mirror Mirror,” “Tangled,” “Frozen,” “Elementary” -- the trend certainly points toward giving established properties cooler titles, ones that hint at the source material being adapted from. Hell, even Batman and Superman are now going by their nicknames rather than their more recognizable monikers. So it goes then, that “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” will be known simply as “Huck” when the story next finds its way to theaters.
Paramount has picked up a spec script from newcomer Andy Burg, which is based on Mark Twain’s classic stories featuring the characters of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. They‘re familiar tales and have been adapted more times than we could even attempt to document here. In fact, there’s already an adaptation that’s currently in...
Paramount has picked up a spec script from newcomer Andy Burg, which is based on Mark Twain’s classic stories featuring the characters of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. They‘re familiar tales and have been adapted more times than we could even attempt to document here. In fact, there’s already an adaptation that’s currently in...
- 3/22/2012
- by Joe Cunningham
- The Playlist
Hollywood isn’t done with reboots and re-imaginings. Paramount Pictures draws inspiration from Universal’s latest re-imagining of Snow White and the Huntsman and is set to take on Mark Twain’s 19th century tale of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
According to THR, Paramount has picked up Huck, a spec script by Andy Burg with Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, and Matt Lopez attached to produce the project. Little detail is being released about the script thus far, but we do know that this re-imagining will follow an adult Sawyer and Finn and feature “supernatural elements.”
Are you ready for a re-imagining of this American classic? How will this project take these characters from Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to a modern day interpretation? Keep it here on SciFi Mafia and we’ll fill you in on the details!
According to THR, Paramount has picked up Huck, a spec script by Andy Burg with Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, and Matt Lopez attached to produce the project. Little detail is being released about the script thus far, but we do know that this re-imagining will follow an adult Sawyer and Finn and feature “supernatural elements.”
Are you ready for a re-imagining of this American classic? How will this project take these characters from Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to a modern day interpretation? Keep it here on SciFi Mafia and we’ll fill you in on the details!
- 3/22/2012
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Seems like today is Bring A New Take To A Classic Novel Day, first with 1984 and now with the wild adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Paramount is the studio that has set up the project, buying a spec script from one Andy Burg called Huck that focuses on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults while simultaneously introducing "supernatural elements to the script." In fact, the new project is pecifically being described as "in the vein of Snow White...
- 3/22/2012
- by Alejandro Stepenberg
- JoBlo.com
Paramount Pictures has picked up a script by Andy Burg (Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice) titled "Huck," which revolves around the characters created by author Mark Twain, appearing in his 1876 novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and three additional books. The storyline is being kept under wraps, but the project is described as a re-imagining in the vein of "Snow White and the Huntsman," focusing on Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as adults. There also are supernatural elements in the script. Twain's book have had several film and TV adaptation, from 1918's "Huck and Tom" to Disney's 1995 version "Tom and Huck," starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro. The new movie is produced by Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
- 3/22/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
Paramount Pictures has picked up Andy Burg's spec script "Huck", a film that's said to be a re-imagining of Mark Twain's characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in the vein of the upcoming "Snow White and the Huntsman" reports Heat Vision.
The story will focus on mischievous teenagers Sawyer and Finn as adults, while supernatural elements also come into play.
No word if it will stick to the 19th century period setting or shift the action to more contemporary times. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Matt Lopez are producing.
The story will focus on mischievous teenagers Sawyer and Finn as adults, while supernatural elements also come into play.
No word if it will stick to the 19th century period setting or shift the action to more contemporary times. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Matt Lopez are producing.
- 3/22/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Scooping up one of the plummiest bits of soggy public domain driftwood to collect down here on the ollll’ Hollywood delta, then fashioning it into a makeshift raft to float down the ollll’ rebootin' river, Paramount has begun developing a “21st-century makeover” for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, because Mark Twain is really, really dead and can’t say shit about it. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes producers Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark have picked up a spec script from newcomer Andy Burg titled Huck And Tom, which The Hollywood Reporter describes as “a re-imagining in the vein ...
- 3/21/2012
- avclub.com
Paramount is giving Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer a 21st century makeover. The studio has picked up a spec by Andy Burg titled Huck, with Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark producing along with Matt Lopez. The title characters, of course, are 19th century creations of author Mark Twain and are known for their mischievous teenage adventures – Sawyer, presented as a small-town, all-American boy, is something of a schemer, while Finn, who is more of an outcast, is faced with tougher moral choices. The duo first appeared in Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Twain
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- 3/21/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount has acquired the supernatural action screenplay Hellified in a six-figure deal. Andy Burg wrote the script, and the movie is set to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, whose horror credits include Constantine, Doom, 1408 and the upcoming Dogs from Martyrs writer/director Pascal Laugier.
Details of Hellified’s story aren’t being revealed at the moment, but it reportedly concerns, no surprise, a trip to the hot place. Set to direct the movie is Dan Bradley (pictured), who has handled 2nd-unit and stunt coordination duties on Freddy’S Dead: The Final Nightmare, The Lawnmower Man, The Prophecy, Mimic, the second and third From Dusk Till Dawn flicks and big-ticket pics like the Bourne and Spider-man sequels, and is currently helming the Red Dawn remake for MGM. Burg has a less action-filled résumé; he previously wrote the lighter likes of Trojan War and Alaska before getting into the Internet business,...
Details of Hellified’s story aren’t being revealed at the moment, but it reportedly concerns, no surprise, a trip to the hot place. Set to direct the movie is Dan Bradley (pictured), who has handled 2nd-unit and stunt coordination duties on Freddy’S Dead: The Final Nightmare, The Lawnmower Man, The Prophecy, Mimic, the second and third From Dusk Till Dawn flicks and big-ticket pics like the Bourne and Spider-man sequels, and is currently helming the Red Dawn remake for MGM. Burg has a less action-filled résumé; he previously wrote the lighter likes of Trojan War and Alaska before getting into the Internet business,...
- 6/26/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
It looks like Paramount has found their own version of Universal's upcoming Dante's Inferno project. The studio has just picked up a supernatural action spec script called Hellified written by Andy Burg (K-9, Alaska) that "involves a journey to hell." Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce and Dan Bradley (seen in the photo above), the former stunt coordinator who is directing MGM's Red Dawn remake, will direct. No more additional details were revealed about the story or much else, but it sounds like Paramount wants to turn this into a big, exciting action movie where the hero travels to hell (and back). THR is saying that this script is screenwriter Andy Burg's "new act as an action writer." I really hope this is as good as they're saying, but if it sold to Paramount, then its probably going to kick ass. As for Dan Bradley, he sounds like...
- 6/26/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Breathing life into a quiet spec market, Paramount has picked up "Hellified," a supernatural action script by Andy Burg, with Dan Bradley attached to direct. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, whose "Transformers" sequel is blowing up the boxoffice, is on board to produce.
"Hellified" is known to be a supernatural action movie involving a journey to hell.
Di Bonaventura Pictures president Mark Vahradian brought the Icm-packaged script to Paramount's Geoff Stier and Adam Goodman, who promptly made a pre-emptive purchase. The deal was made before Goodman's ascension to film group president.
The script and the accompanying six-figure deal mark a return to Hollywood for Burg, a comedy and family-film writer who has worked on such movies as 1989's "K-9" and 1996's "Alaska." During the early 2000s, he segued to the Internet, fashioning himself as a Web entrepreneur.
With "Hellified," the scribe hopes to begin a new act as an action writer. Burg...
"Hellified" is known to be a supernatural action movie involving a journey to hell.
Di Bonaventura Pictures president Mark Vahradian brought the Icm-packaged script to Paramount's Geoff Stier and Adam Goodman, who promptly made a pre-emptive purchase. The deal was made before Goodman's ascension to film group president.
The script and the accompanying six-figure deal mark a return to Hollywood for Burg, a comedy and family-film writer who has worked on such movies as 1989's "K-9" and 1996's "Alaska." During the early 2000s, he segued to the Internet, fashioning himself as a Web entrepreneur.
With "Hellified," the scribe hopes to begin a new act as an action writer. Burg...
- 6/25/2009
- by By Borys Kit and Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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