Exclusive: Warner Bros. is really upping the stakes to its I Am Legend franchise to a stratospheric level and bringing back for the next chapter, not just original star Will Smith, but he’ll be joined by Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan in what will rep the duo’s first big movie together as stars and producers. Talk about two big stars getting together, between Smith and Jordan combined, their movies have grossed a massive $12.3 billion at the box office.
Plot details, of course, are being kept under wraps.
Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the Richard Matheson 1954 novel, is also returning to pen the follow-up and producer as well.
All these deals are closed, I understand, and a director is not attached as of yet as the project is still being developed. Francis Lawrence directed the original 2007 movie.
Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo are producing via their Outlier Society banner.
Plot details, of course, are being kept under wraps.
Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the Richard Matheson 1954 novel, is also returning to pen the follow-up and producer as well.
All these deals are closed, I understand, and a director is not attached as of yet as the project is still being developed. Francis Lawrence directed the original 2007 movie.
Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo are producing via their Outlier Society banner.
- 3/4/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amazon has put in development the fantasy drama Havenfall, based on the novel by Sara Holland, from feature writer Evan Daugherty (Divergent), Lauren Oliver’s Glasstown Entertainment, Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures and Amazon Studios, where Oliver and Glasstown are under a deal.
Written by Daugherty, Havenfall chronicles the story of Maddie, who returns to a place from her youth for the summer: a mysterious hotel called Havenfall Inn, nestled in the Rockies overlooking a sleepy Colorado town. A place which, unbeknownst to the world, contains portals leading to different fantastical realms. Havenfall has also long-served as a neutral territory that links these realms, but that peaceful status is disrupted by a shocking murder that will force Maddie to confront dark truths about her family.
Daugherty executive produces with Oliver via her Glasstown Entertainment and Goldsman and Greg Lessans for Weed Road. Amazon Studios produces in association with Glasstown and Weed Road.
Written by Daugherty, Havenfall chronicles the story of Maddie, who returns to a place from her youth for the summer: a mysterious hotel called Havenfall Inn, nestled in the Rockies overlooking a sleepy Colorado town. A place which, unbeknownst to the world, contains portals leading to different fantastical realms. Havenfall has also long-served as a neutral territory that links these realms, but that peaceful status is disrupted by a shocking murder that will force Maddie to confront dark truths about her family.
Daugherty executive produces with Oliver via her Glasstown Entertainment and Goldsman and Greg Lessans for Weed Road. Amazon Studios produces in association with Glasstown and Weed Road.
- 10/28/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired Havenfall, a highly anticipated new project from Sara Holland, the author whose first two novels, Everless and Evermore, skyrocketed up the New York Times bestsellers list and established her as a major new star of the Ya fantasy scene.
Described as a lush, gothic fantasy, Havenfall chronicles the story of Maddie, who spends summers at the novel’s namesake setting, a once-resplendent inn located deep in the Rocky Mountains and owned by Maddie’s uncle. Havenfall has also long-served as a neutral territory that links magical realms but that peaceful status is disrupted by a shocking murder that will force Maddie to confront dark truths about her family.
“Havenfall is a genius mash-up of the real world and fantasy,” says Cindy Loh, Vice President and Publisher of Bloomsbury Children’s Books U.S. “Maddie is a grounded, ‘every-girl’ teenager trying to deal with...
Described as a lush, gothic fantasy, Havenfall chronicles the story of Maddie, who spends summers at the novel’s namesake setting, a once-resplendent inn located deep in the Rocky Mountains and owned by Maddie’s uncle. Havenfall has also long-served as a neutral territory that links magical realms but that peaceful status is disrupted by a shocking murder that will force Maddie to confront dark truths about her family.
“Havenfall is a genius mash-up of the real world and fantasy,” says Cindy Loh, Vice President and Publisher of Bloomsbury Children’s Books U.S. “Maddie is a grounded, ‘every-girl’ teenager trying to deal with...
- 2/4/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
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