Way back in 2011, Sony Pictures acquired a spec script titled The Big Stone Grid, which was written by S. Craig Zahler – who is best known these days for writing and directing the films Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete. As of early 2012, Michael Mann was in talks to work on script revisions with Zahler and to direct the film. The Mann take on the material didn’t come to fruition, and four years later the project moved over to Lotus Entertainment, with Pierre Morel on board to direct. Morel couldn’t get it into production, either. Eight more years down the line, World of Reel reports that Zahler is now set to direct the film himself.
Part of the reason why Zahler has gone six years without directing a new film is the fact that the project he was pursuing, Hug Chickenpenny (an adaptation of...
Part of the reason why Zahler has gone six years without directing a new film is the fact that the project he was pursuing, Hug Chickenpenny (an adaptation of...
- 4/5/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In a cultural landscape flooded with paroxysms of sanctimony and indignation, the prospect of a productively provocative work might seem like a non-starter—for when discourse inevitably breaks down into tetchy outbursts of bad-faith criticism, and artists in turn retreat behind self-defined platitudes in an attempt to avoid misunderstanding and offense, is there room for art that explicitly baits such responses, for movies that want to alienate an audience? Then again, as suggested by Dragged Across Concrete, the latest film from writer-director S. Craig Zahler, perhaps this is just a question of intensity.With just three directorial features under his belt, the Miami-born director has positioned himself as a workmanlike genre filmmaker in the vein of Don Siegel, whose Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) provides the clear model for Zahler’s previous film, Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017). Even before stepping behind the camera, though, Zahler worked mainly as a writer,...
- 3/26/2019
- MUBI
Looks like Ridley Scott has found a comic book that he wants to adapt into a feature film. The director is currently in talks with Fox to direct a film based on Queen and Country, the Eisner award-winning graphic novel by Greg Rucka.
Queen and Country is a spy thriller that is set in a fictional British Secret Intelligence Service. The story centers on an operative named Tara Chace, "a top British intelligence agent who is used as bait to draw out an international terrorist after an attack in London."
I've never read the comic, but I love a good spy thriller! This seems like it will be a great project for Scott, who most recently directed the fantastic film All The Money in the World. Scott has also been in talks with Disney to direct The Merlin Saga.
If he has to make a choice between Queen and Country and The Merlin Saga,...
Queen and Country is a spy thriller that is set in a fictional British Secret Intelligence Service. The story centers on an operative named Tara Chace, "a top British intelligence agent who is used as bait to draw out an international terrorist after an attack in London."
I've never read the comic, but I love a good spy thriller! This seems like it will be a great project for Scott, who most recently directed the fantastic film All The Money in the World. Scott has also been in talks with Disney to direct The Merlin Saga.
If he has to make a choice between Queen and Country and The Merlin Saga,...
- 3/16/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Simon Brew Oct 20, 2017
Writer/director S. Craig Zahler talks to us about his films, his approach, and Ridley Scott adapting his work…
I loved Brawl In Cell Block 99, the second feature film from novelist and filmmaker S. Craig Zahler. His first? Bone Tomahawk. I love that too, for the record. Zahler already feels like a very different voice in American film, a man content for his budgets to be low and control over his material to be high.
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He spared me some time for a chat to talk about the film, his approach, and what he feels about Drew Goddard and Ridley Scott adapting one of his books.
I came out of the movie being glad that...
Writer/director S. Craig Zahler talks to us about his films, his approach, and Ridley Scott adapting his work…
I loved Brawl In Cell Block 99, the second feature film from novelist and filmmaker S. Craig Zahler. His first? Bone Tomahawk. I love that too, for the record. Zahler already feels like a very different voice in American film, a man content for his budgets to be low and control over his material to be high.
See related Star Trek: Discovery episode 1 review - The Vulcan Hello Star Trek: Discovery episode 2 review - Battle At The Binary Star Star Trek: Discovery episode 3 review - Context Is For Kings
He spared me some time for a chat to talk about the film, his approach, and what he feels about Drew Goddard and Ridley Scott adapting one of his books.
I came out of the movie being glad that...
- 10/19/2017
- Den of Geek
Ridley Scott loves having his name on lots of projects. The always busy filmmaker is putting the finishing touches on “Alien: Covenant” before gearing up to shoot the thriller “All The Money In The World” next month. At 79 years old, Scott is attached to enough to projects to keep him busy until the rest of his life, so many in fact, it’s probably pointless to name them all here (but they include more “Alien” movies, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s “The Cartel,” “Wraiths Of The Broken Land,” and many more).
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- 4/4/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Following their highly successful collaboration last year with "The Martian," director Ridley Scott, producer Simon Kinberg and author Andy Weir are re-teaming with 20th Century Fox for a currently untitled project.
Specific details of the project are being kept under wraps, including the genre of it, but it is known Weir will write the screenplay while Kinberg, Scott, Aditya Sood and Michael Schaefer will produce. Scott is not expected to direct.
This is not to be confused with "Wraiths of the Broken Land," the recently announced project which sees Scott re-teaming with 'Martian' screenwriter Drew Goddard.
Scott is directing that one which is an adaptation of the novel by S. Craig Zahler ("Bone Tomahawk"). Weir is not involved in 'Wraiths,' while Goddard is not involved in this untitled project.
Source: Deadline...
Specific details of the project are being kept under wraps, including the genre of it, but it is known Weir will write the screenplay while Kinberg, Scott, Aditya Sood and Michael Schaefer will produce. Scott is not expected to direct.
This is not to be confused with "Wraiths of the Broken Land," the recently announced project which sees Scott re-teaming with 'Martian' screenwriter Drew Goddard.
Scott is directing that one which is an adaptation of the novel by S. Craig Zahler ("Bone Tomahawk"). Weir is not involved in 'Wraiths,' while Goddard is not involved in this untitled project.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/18/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It’s safe to say that 20th Century Fox were very happy with The Martian, which shot to critical and financial success when it was released in 2015. They were so happy, in fact, that they are not only helping director Ridley Scott load up his slate with projects such as the recently announced Wraiths Of The Broken Land, but they are also re-teaming him with producer Simon Kinberg and the author of The Martian, Andy Weir, for an as-yet untitled film project.
In an exclusive story from Deadline, we’re learning that Andy Weir is set to write the film, while Kinberg and Scott will produce it. This is an interesting development for two reasons. Firstly, although Andy Weir write the source book from which the film The Martian was adapted (by Drew Goddard), he has not yet written a feature length film script himself. This will be his debut screenplay.
In an exclusive story from Deadline, we’re learning that Andy Weir is set to write the film, while Kinberg and Scott will produce it. This is an interesting development for two reasons. Firstly, although Andy Weir write the source book from which the film The Martian was adapted (by Drew Goddard), he has not yet written a feature length film script himself. This will be his debut screenplay.
- 5/18/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
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