Akiva Goldsman

For maybe forty minutes–from twenty minutes in to the hour mark–Lost in Space is actually rather engaging. It’s not any good as a narrative, but Hopkins’s direction of the space sequences is phenomenal. The film opens with something familiar, a dogfight out of Star Wars, but the later sequences are not. They aren’t original, but they’re the first time such a budget had been expended on them. Overall, Hopkins does an excellent job with the film. The last hour, featuring an alien planet and...Read Full Story

Producer Akiva Goldsman is finally making some better progress with his long-time passion project A Winter’s Tale. Warner Bros has begun shooting screen tests for the film, which is an adaptation of Mark Helprin’s supernatural period thriller novel.   Among those testing for the film areTom Hiddleston (Thor, War Horse), Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Mirror Mirror), Bella Heathcote (In Time, Dark Shadows), Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and Jessica Brown Findlay (Albatross...Read Full Story

The long gestating sequel to I am Legend seems to be finally moving forward. According to Deadline, Warner Bros has signed Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook entertainment to produce another I am Legend movie. The deal was set in place in hopes that Will Smith would return to reprise his role as Robert Neville, the last man on Earth fighting against semi-mindless monsters after a devastating man made virus was made. Deadline adds that Arash Amel’s script would not be a prequel, which has been...Read Full Story

Akiva Goldsman may have produced some of the biggest projects with some of the biggest names in Hollywood during the 90s and 00s, but the director hasn’t had a movie to call his own. But for the past few years, he’s been trying to make his directorial debut a reality, by adapting Winter’s Tale for the movie screen. Now he is adding a few more pieces to his directorial debut by adding names like Will Smith and Russell Crowe. Now nothing if definite, but Vulture does report that negotiations...Read Full Story

Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend) had been trying to get his directing debut off the ground for years: An adaptation of Mark Helprin's 1983 magical-realism novel Winter's Tale. Vulture has learned that things finally seem to be moving ahead on the stalled project at Warner Bros. (news of which broke exactly one year ago today) after, our spies say, Goldsman "called in every favor he had" and landed Russell Crowe and Will Smith, both stars of his...Read Full Story

Warner Bros. have confirmed that I Am Legend 2 is in development.  The sequel to the apocalyptic Zombie-fest will be produced by Akiva Goldsman and Will Smith, with an eye on placing the latter reprising his role.  Yep, that’s right – even with the finality of the first film (spoiler reveal –> i.e. Smith’s character dies). Will Smith is not committing to starring in the next film until he is happy with the script. The Expatriate Scribe, Arash Amel, has been hired to pen the follow-up to the...Read Full Story

Jay A. Fernandez Arash Amel has been hired to write a screenplay for “I Am Legend 2″ for Warner Bros. Will Smith is on board to produce through his Overbrook Entertainment shingle, with the potential once again to star. read more Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/THRComicCon/~3/lnLTaxq2tUI/i-am-legend-2-will-smith-akiva-goldsman-arash-amel-292377 Garcelle Beauvais Genelle Frenoy Georgianna Robertson Georgina Grenville Gina Carano Gina GershonRead Full Story

Geo436: While Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman bide their time until the various machinations preventing the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower subside, the pair has decided to busy themselves with bringing the Old West back to HBO in a series about the highly romanticized gunslinger, Doc Holliday. Given the current television climate, it could be said that HBO was years ahead of the curve when it debuted the foul-mouthed western drama Deadwood in 2004. It is now a little over five...Read Full Story

I am not a Stephen King fan, however I am a Dark Tower series fan and when I heard Hollywood was ready to dabble in developing one the best modern day fantasy epics for the big screen that uneasy, almost gassy feeling came over me and probably many fans. As Peter Hall at Cinematical, where we get this next bit of awesome news, would put it, “I’d have been skeptical no matter who was attached to the project.” Apparently the new rights owners managed to out JJ, noneother than JJ Abrams and crew...Read Full Story

STEPHEN KING'S fantasy epic The Dark Tower is to be made into three films and a TV series, it was announced today by Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment. Last year, Lost executive producers JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof had abandoned their own plans to adapt the saga for the big screen, with Lindelof admitting it was too tricky and they were "terrified of screwing it up." In April this year, it was reported that Ron Howard (director of Angels & Demons, Frost/Nixon...Read Full Story