Shrek helmer Andrew Adamson is in talks to direct and co-write a live-action adaptation of Curious George for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment based on the children’s books by Margret and H.A. Rey.
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Story details are being kept under wraps, but will continue the adventures of the cantankerous ogre, his princess bride, and his donkey sidekick.
Logline: Set during World War II, tells of a British plane that crashes into a Jewish village, bringing Nazi attention to them and forcing the villagers to defend themselves. A rabbi and his grandson building a Golem creature and bringing him to monstrous life.
Logline: Pitched as “ET” meets “Ted,” a young boy helps an alien that has landed on Earth, only for the alien to return years later with a diabolical scheme to unearth a deadly weapon.
Logline: A group of teens holed up in a chain store struggle to survive as the world ends.
Logline: In the future, the inhabitants of Earth must leave the planet.Aron J. Warner, Jeff Fierson, Reel FX
Logline: A recently dumped man in his 30’s decides to take the European trip he wanted to take as a teenager and meets a British man who’s a world traveler.
Logline: A group of gnomes who live in a department store are forced to head to the outside world for the first time when the store is demolished. Once outside, they discover their alien origins.
Logline: A group of unarmed and unprepared students from Philadelphia must become soldiers to survive an attack from a supernatural force.
Logline: Story centers on a soldier who returns from Afghanistan to work in a mining community and raise his 12-year-old daughter. When she goes missing, he begins to search for her and in the process, uncovers a deep supernatural conspiracy in the town they reside in.
Logline: Story is set in a community called Burden Hill where a series of supernatural events occur, causing a gang of dogs (and one cat) to team up in order to keep their owners and the town’s residents safe.
Logline: Pitched as being in the vein of “The Parallax View” and “The Firm” involving flash mobs.
Logline: The story chronicles the beginning of Narnia, where we learn how Aslan created the world and how evil first entered it.
Logline: Chronicles the adventures of an Ohio high-schooler who is visited by his other universe doppleganger and is tricked into switching dimensions with him.
The shortlist of directors for Lionsgate’s upcoming first installment of the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel THE HUNGER GAMES has fast become the must-land hot spot for directors, much akin to how the race for the Lisbeth Salander role was for GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. The project, which is being given early hype due to an excellent sales count on the novel side of things, has also been being the praise of being “the next Twilight, but with an edge.” So, exactly who are the directors Lionsgate thinks can deliver…?
Logline: A reboot of the lovable mischievous monkey Curious George, and the adventures he finds himself in.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but planned as a big budget live action/CGI hybrid fantasy adventure epic.
Logline: Set against the warring conflict in the province of Bougainville in Papa New Guinea, story follows 13-year-old Matilda Laimo and her mother, Dolores, as they are unified with the rest of their village in their efforts for survival. Amid the chaos, Mr. Watts, the only white local, offers to fill in as the children’s schoolteacher and teaches from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.”
Logline: Revolves around the continuing adventures of the swashbuckling assassin/swordsman cat from the Shrek series.
Logline: The Golden Age of Narnia has become extinct and Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines and is now under the control of the evil King Miraz, who rules the land without mercy.
