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Universal loves Timur Bekmambetov
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Despite announcing in December that Night
Watch director Timur Bekmambetov would be directing an adaptation of
Mark Millar's Wanted (a series of comics
about a man who discovers that his dead father was a super villain), Universal clearly have not yet satisfied their
jones to work with the hippest Russian on earth. So, in an effort to spend even more time with Bekmambetov, the studio
has acquired the rights to yet another comics series in hopes that their favorite Russian will eventually direct a film
version. The series in question is Christian Gossett's The
Red Star, "an epic war saga set in a reimagined Soviet Union where militarized sorcery and monolithic
technology live side by side," the subject matter of which is probably a little more relevant to Bekmambetov than
that of Wanted.No writer has yet been hired to pen the adaptation and Bekmambetov hasn't officially been signed to even participate in the project, but it sounds like he would be a great fit. The reviews of The Red Star at Amazon emphasize the series' striking visual style (and are so good that I just ordered the damn thing), and whatever else you say about Bekmambetov, it's hard to deny that he's not consumed by how his movies look.
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