Gotham Chopra Tagged Articles at Cinematical
A Reason to Brainwash the Kids
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If you're a parent who has a hard time disciplining your out-of-control teen, there aren't too many options available. You could threaten them with military school (like in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure), visit the Maury Povich show or, well, brainwash them. Okay, so perhaps the whole brainwashing thing is a bit morbid, however Reason Pictures tends to think it would make for a great film.
Reason has just picked up the Untitled Teen Brainwashing Project (I love it already), based on a pitch from writers Kevin Walsh and Gotham Chopra. Story centers around a group of high school misfits who are sent to a "finishing school" in an attempt to keep them in check. Only, this ain't your ordinary run-of-the-mill finishing school -- in reality it's a remote detention center that -- you guessed it -- brainwashes teens! Upon figuring out the school's wicked scheme, the group hatch a plan to escape. Sorry mom and dad, unfortunately this isn't based on true events and such a school does not exist ... we think.
Richard Branson gets animated
Filed under: Animation », Deals », Newsstand »
Virgin kingpin Richard Branson is taking his
outrageously successful entrepreneurship to the film industry, taking aim at the Asian market with a pair of ventures
based in Bangalore, India. The first, Virgin Comics, is just what it sounds like: a comic book company, with a
"focus on creating original titles and characters that blend Eastern and Western mythologies." Virgin's first
efforts, which include a a series created by John Woo, are due out later this year. The second company, called Virgin
Animation, will have the task of taking the characters and stories of the Comics group and turning them into animated
films.To say that the team behind the companies is an odd group is an understatement: in addition to Branson, the company's creative director is Gotham Chopra, the son of self-help guru Deepak Chopra (who, based on some reports, is also involved), and filmmaker Shekar Kapur (Bandit Queen, Elizabeth) is responsible for "providing creative content" to the early Comics offerings.
Given Branson's history of jumping into industries at just the right time, this is a promising project. It'll be interesting to watch its progress - and, hopefully to see the results, if they ever make it to the US.
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