Long-time newspaper journalist (now a sub-editor doing copy-editing and page design) with passion for sci-fi. Also have an X-Men movie script on the go!
What I'm Reading
Various comicbooks, graphic novels and websites...
Subjects I'd Like to Learn More About
How to get into screenwriting!
An Interesting Fact
A major publisher was once very interested in an Arthurian trilogy I was writing. Also love music and did seven dance music remixes for a US DJ promotional label.
WITH toy-based films such as Transformers and G.I. Joe bringing in a box office bonanza, it's pretty obvious we are going to see many more brands exploding on to the screen.
In an article discussing the boom in feature films derived from games and action figures, The Wall Street Journal reveals that Star Trek director and Lost creator JJ Abrams is in talks with toymakers Hasbro to produce a Micronauts movie.
Hasbro - which makes the Transformers and G.I. Joe action figures - has just acquir... Read Full Story
OSCAR-WINNING actress Helen Mirren has joined the cast of Red, the film adaptation of the comic book miniseries written by Warren Ellis and published by Wildstorm.
The movie, starring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, begins filming on January 11 and is set for release on November 19, 2010, with Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, The Time Traveler's Wife) directing.
Willis will be playing retired CIA agent Paul Moses who is targeted by assassins sent by the new leader of the CIA (Freeman) who wants... Read Full Story
SIN CITY producer Stephen L'Heureux's Solipsist Films has acquired the rights to Ed Laroche's graphic novel Almighty.
According to Mania, Black Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Nolan is attached to write the script and potential directors are being approached.
Created, written and drawn by Laroche, Almighty takes place in 2098 and follows a female motorcycling mercenary called Fale, who is hired to rescue a girl and bring her home across a third world America - "a fractured landscape of segregated... Read Full Story
SCREENWRITER Melissa Rosenberg says British filmmaker David Slade is the perfect director for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third instalment in the vampire romance series.
Slade, whose previous credits include Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night, completed filming Eclipse at the end of last month.
The 40-year-old is ideal for tackling the emotional struggles and choices in the story, says Rosenberg, who penned the Eclipse screenplay and also adapted Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and New Moon book... Read Full Story
ROLAND EMMERICH, director of the earth-shattering disaster flick 2012 which hits cinemas on November 13, says a TV continuation is in the pipeline.
The filmmaker told Entertainment Weekly that the movie's executive producer Mark Gordon, who is also involved in shows such as Grey's Anatomy, was involved in the idea.
It would pick up where the film ends and is provisionally entitled 2013. ABC is said to be in talks over the project, which will fill the scheduling void left by Lost.
Speaking at... Read Full Story
ROLAND EMMERICH, whose disaster movie 2012 erupts on to the big screen on November 13, has revealed he finds superhero movies boring and has rejected every offer to direct a comic book adaptation.
Emmerich, whose other credits include Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and Stargate, admitted he was "a little worried" about the culture of remakes and adaptations.
He said: "I don't know how many more superheroes they can pull out of their hat. I hate superheroes.
"I always say n... Read Full Story
DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro has explained how he intends to bring an original look to the creatures and battles of his two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
The first part of the $300million project comes out in December 2011 and the second a year after that. Peter Jackson is serving as executive producer to help ensure a close match with the Lord of the Rings films.
In a new interview, Del Toro talks in detail about the epic production, which has so far had a year of design work and months of ... Read Full Story
PRODUCER Jerry Bruckheimer has said Disney is moving forward with its planned movie based on The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp cast as native American sidekick Tonto.
He said they were now aiming for a 2012 release. Mike Newell, whose credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, is attached to direct.
Bruckheimer told Sci-Fi Wire that Pirates of the Caribbean writers Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio had worked ... Read Full Story
IAN MCKELLEN says he now has his hands on the screenplay for The Hobbit, to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson.
Sir Ian told Sci-Fi Wire: "As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf [for The Hobbit] because they knew who they were writing him for.
"There are a lot of characters in The Hobbit including, crucially, Bilbo, and they don't know who's going to play Bilbo. So it's extremely attractive that this part has been written for me. The other Gandalf was writ... Read Full Story
BATMAN scribe and FlashForward showrunner David Goyer recently revealed that Sony studio chiefs were dusting off a Ghost Rider screenplay he wrote nine years ago to make it into a film.
The first Ghost Rider movie in 2007, with Nicolas Cage as the biker who sells his soul to the devil and is transformed into a supernatural bounty hunter, was a poor effort.
But, nonetheless, it managed to make a reasonable $238million globally (on a budget of $120million) and a further $103million from DVD s... Read Full Story
