An Adventure Terrorist Genre?
Filed under: Action, Drama, Thrillers, Deals, Scripts, 20th Century Fox
Davis Entertainment, a 20th Century Fox-based
production company, has spent several hundred thousand dollars on a spec script from Stephen Hauser (you'll be forgiven for not recognizing the name - his
only previous screenwriting credit is for, erm, Sphere) entitled The Mistaken. According to The
Hollywood Reporter, the film will revolve around "an American man who becomes a terrorism suspect while
traveling with his family." Instead of being a political thriller, though, it's going to be an action flick,
"in the vein of The
Fugitive and The
Bourne Identity." Uh, what? Clearly I'm a moron here, but I really can't figure this out: a guy who's thought to be a terrorist goes on the run and...does a lot of stuff that makes him seem like a terrorist, only to prove that he's not? I just don't understand how this is going to work in our current political climate. I guess if he's mistaken for a terrorist by, say, Osama Bin Laden, I can see audiences (and Hollywood) getting behind the character raising all sorts of hell to prove that he's not what they think he is, but since the movie is set IN THE US, I'm completely befuddled. Anyone got any ideas about how this is going to work? If you don't, we'll find out fairly soon, because the movie is reportedly being fast-tracked into production.
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3-29-2006 @ 5:15PM
RC of strangeculture said...
Hauser's written w/ Paul Atencio right??? I'd have to look it up (i know they did sphere together because i was writing stuff on him for the movie The Good German coming out the end of this year.)...
But...i don't really know if that gives us an indication of his ability...maybe atencio's job was the salvage the adaptation.
--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
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3-30-2006 @ 12:59AM
jmchez said...
What’s the opposite of jingoism? Certainly that’s what Hollywood seems to suffer from in spades. Any movie that shows US gvt leaders as inept, conspiratorial and downright evil gets fast tracked. Of course some reading this will ask “And you point is?” proving that the US movie industry markets mostly to a selected and limited audience.
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