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Watchmen's Screenwriter Pens 'Battling Boy' for Brad Pitt's Plan B
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Back in November, Brad Pitt and Paramount fell hard for Paul Pope's Battling Boy, which they snapped up before it had even hit store shelves. The book isn't due to be published until 2010, but according to The Hollywood Reporter the film adaptation already has a screenwriter: Alex Tse, who is fresh off Watchmen and busy penning scripts for Ninja Scroll and Zack Snyder's adaptation of The Illustrated Man. Battling Boy centers on the wee offspring of a god, whose dad urges him to leave their immortal mountaintop home and descend to Monstropolis, and rid the city of its plague of monsters. Considering the city is the size of a continent, this might take him awhile. The monsters aren't your cute and cuddly Monsters Vs Aliens type either, but according to Pope are "horrible, Grimm's fairytale, Beowulf-ish monsters, awful things. Child-stealers. Plus some of the vampires and mummies and wolfmen we remember from the old black and white Hollywood horror films." If you'd like another glimpse at the book, Pope did celebrate Battling Boy getting optioned by publishing some additional artwork on his blog.
There's not much more to go on, and no indication as to whether Pitt might take the role of Senior Deity, so we'll have to sit tight and wait for the book. Clearly though, Pitt and Paramount have been studying their comic book movies -- if Tse can adapt Watchmen, he can probably do a fair job at adapting anything graphic novel you throw at him.
WB Hires a Writer for the 'Ninja Scroll'
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A brutally violent tale of revenge set in feudal Japan, with eye-popping nudity, rape, and, oh yeah, did I mention the buckets of blood? Of course, that makes Ninja Scroll perfect fodder for a live-action version -- further evidence that 300 was a game-changer, as if we needed more -- and that's what Warner Brothers intends to make through the auspices of Appian Way, AKA Leonardo DiCaprio's production company.
Writer Alex Tse (Watchmen, Frankie Machine) has been hired, but Leo "is not planning to act in the film," according to Variety. Leo may not be able to open an Iraq-themed action picture, but he can still get long-gestating anime adaptations into development, i.e. Akira, and now Ninja Scroll, which is set up as a co-production with Japanese company par excellence Madhouse.
Ninja Scroll was originally released in Japan in 1993 before receiving a limited theatrical run in the US in 1996. I saw it at a midnight screening; I was very tired that night, but I have vivid memories of naked women and slashing swords. Admittedly, that could describe a number of pictures; still, if I recall correctly, Ninja Scroll really moved at a good pace, so the live-action version better not be ponderous and slow.
Since Leo is, at this point, not planning to enter the world of ninjas and vengeance, who would you like to see as the ninja vagabond Jubei Kibagami? Do you think the adaptation will remain based in ancient Japanese feudal society? Or will it be unrecognizably "modernized" into a modern-day tale or, heaven forbid, transmogrified into an American revenge fantasy?
Watchmen Gets a Scribe
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This is just a quickie, but seeing as how it is about Watchmen it merits a good post. As fans know, Watchmen has had a devil of a time finding its way to the silver screen. We've been teased, but nobody has delivered. Ergo, when a new round of Watchmen movie rumors started popping up, it was rather hard to have any faith in them. We wanted to believe, but our hearts had been broken too many times with Watchmen's false promises. We've got Zack Snyder attached to direct this time around, and as of this weekend we've got a writer as well -- one Alex Tse. Tse hasn't had much screen writing experience to date; according to IMDB the only real work he has done in the field thus far is a Showtime drama film with Spike Lee. So does the attachment of a writer give you any further confidence in the film's chances of actually existing? It seems like this studio is serious about the project, so maybe we'll get some action this time. Interesting to choose such an unknown for the writer, but I suppose he's got most of the primary themes already taken care of for him. He does have pretty solid source material, after all.
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