It’s all about the trilogy nowadays. Coming Soon carry a story from Variety – oh let me break off a moment there and complain about the most annoying thing ever to grace the Internet, that damned awful frog ring tone, just one accidental move by your mouse and it’s off and singing! I hate that ad! – anyway, the story is about one of the latest options from 20th Century Fox for a script from Josh Friedman.
The futuristic sci-fi film will be produced by John Davis and Wyck Godfrey of Davis Entertainment. That company teamed with producer Laurence Mark last year on Fox’s I, Robot.
“Dawn” takes place on a city-sized starship, which has been floating in space for a century, its inhabitants seeking a planet on which to settle after their own world was rendered uninhabitable. Time is running out, and a struggle for control breaks out.
The trade adds that the script has been crafted to lead to multiple installments if the first one works.
Sounds like an interesting premise, but thinking of a mutliple installment series at this early stage? It’s just a spec script. I love how Hollywood get’s their head into a certain gear and just goes for it. Film sells, take all ideas from film, apply to all new and make as much money again and again. We must make trilogys now, we must.
The age of comic book adaptions is on it’s cusp, the game adaptations are either almost dead or in their infancy (we shall have to see how the latest crop turn out), Asian remakes are in full swing and remakes are just everywhere all the time. I don’t know what I’m complaining about, as long as we get good movies who am I to care?
(ARGGHHHH! That blasted advert kicked off again!)
You don’t understand. Scripted series television is dying and being replaced by “reality” series. Movie series are making a comeback. Andy Hardy anyone???