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My Movie Crush: 'Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' Sean Patrick Flanery
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Like most of us geek folk, I've always harbored an intense crush on the dashing archeologist-adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., played famously on the silver screen by the dashing Harrison Ford. Through Indiana Jones's three classic major motion pictures, I lusted after (and envied) the scruffy, rough-and-tumble hero (not so much in the lame 2008 sequel, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as he adventured to exotic locales, rescued Indian slave children, slept with hot Nazi women, and cracked his whip all over the globe. But manly and heroic as the adult Indy was, his younger self made my young pulse race in an entirely different way. And so, this week's Movie Crush is dedicated not to the hunky Harrison Ford but to his blue-eyed teen counterpart: Sean Patrick Flanery.
"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles," conceived by creator George Lucas as a companion series aimed at younger Indy fans, ran from 1992-1996 on ABC and the USA network as both standalone episodes and repackaged two-hour films. Prequel adventures told the back story of the future adventurer Indiana Jones, whose early 20th century exploits brought the character into contact with historical figures like T.E. Lawrence, Al Capone, Winston Churchhill, Franz Kafka, and Mata Hari. Twelve-year-old actor Corey Carrier split episodes with the then 27-year-old Flanery as the child and teen Indys, respectively, but I challenge anyone who watched the show to remember Carrier as the definitive young Indiana Jones. It was Flanery all the way.
Dark Castle's Next Three Films
Filed under: Action », Drama », Horror », Independent », Thrillers », Deals », Cinematical Indie »
If you love genre films as much as I do then this announcement will make you as happy as it made me. According to Variety ( via Coming Soon), Joel Silver's Dark Castle Productions has raised $240 Million from a half-dozen Wall Street firms to produce 15 films over the next six years. Warner Bros. will distribute the films under an existing deal with Silver.I wrote about Silver's dealings with Wall Street before, and its good to see those efforts bear fruit already with some new projects. First up for Silver and Dark Castle under this deal is the action thriller Whiteout, based on the Greg Rucka graphic novel about a lone U.S. marshal tracking Antarctica's first serial killer.
The next two projects after Whiteout are expected to be the psychological horror film The Summoner, directed by Victor Salva (who also directed the very scary Jeepers Creepers) and the urban action film Gangland, written by Alex Tse (who's also writing the adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen -- another pic I can't wait to see).
Dark Castle has been around since 1999 and in that time has turned out some pretty good genre films and some not so good ones. No matter what the relative merits and success of its films, it's good to see a company and a Producer like Joel Silver so committed to bringing these kinds of projects to the screen. If it wasn't for him we might never have had the guilty pleasure of seeing genre films like House on Haunted Hill, House of Wax, or the under-appreciated Gothika. Keep up the good work Joel, and I'll keep watching.
What's your favorite guilty pleasure genre movie?
Lionsgate buys a Peaceful Warrior
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Romance », Casting », Deals », Lionsgate Films », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
Two friends of mine read Dan Millman's The
Way of the Peaceful Warrior last year, and I could NOT get them to shut up about it. Something about a gymnast,
and a man who taught him to live the right way, or something. When they told me about, it was clear that the book was
heavy on philosophy - there was a lot of "You know...it's, like, about life. But way more than that!" in
their descriptions, which didn't make it sound like a book that would lend itself to a screenplay. Little did I know,
however, that it did so a long damn time ago - and that the movie has, in fact, already been made.Over the years, the movie rights changed hands many times (they started with Mark Amin at Trimark) as small production houses broke up or were swallowed up, and as executives moved. In the middle of all the shuffling around, a deal was struck with Blockbuster (through DEJ Productions) to finance and distribute the film; that deal, in turn, got it greenlit. In post-production now, the movie - entitled Peaceful Warrior - was directed by Victor Salva (best known for Jeepers Creepers, oddly enough) and stars Scott Mechlowicz as Millman (the book is a "blend" of fact and fiction, with a central character who shares a name with its author) and Nick Nolte as Socrates, his mysterious teacher. When Blockbuster offloaded DEJ, they kept the distribution rights to Peaceful Warrior, which were just purchased by Lionsgate; the film will be in theaters in early June.
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