Is Hollywood this desperate for movie ideas?

[TheWatcher]

Scribe Peter Iliff has been tapped to adapt a live-action bigscreen version of "American Gladiators."

Story, which will feature the Herculean characters as superheroes , will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has been broadcast in more than 90 countries, with the format adapted for the local market in 14 of them. Most recently, NBC aired a primetime revival of the show in 2008.

 

Scott Mednick ("Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles") is producing, and "American Gladiators" creator Johnny Ferraro is exec producing.

 

Mednick is targeting the release for 2011.

 

Iliff's credits include "Patriot Games," "Varsity Blues" and "Under Suspicion." He recently penned a sequel to his 1991 surfer hit "Point Break," which will be helmed by Jeff Wadlow.

[gaz2810i]

That sounds like absolute rubbish

[Limited66]

Terrible.

[Designer Toast]

Hollywood is desperate and so are the investors who get sold on these lame movie pitches. There are some fantastic indie books out there that would make for great movies or animated movies.

 

American Gladiators?

[Ares]

Hollywood dosent want good stories that not many people know about.

They want names people will recognize can sell to a stupid movie buying public

[TheWatcher]

Hollywood is desperate and so are the investors who get sold on these lame movie pitches. There are some fantastic indie books out there that would make for great movies or animated movies.

 

American Gladiators?

 

Speaking of indie books being turned into movies:

 

Sam Worthington is heading back to the future again.

The "Avatar" star, who recently toplined "Terminator Salvation," is attached to star in yet another sci-fier: "The Last Days of American Crime."

 

Set in the not-too-distant future, story involves the U.S. government's plans to secretly broadcast a signal that makes it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts.

 

Based on Rick Remender's comicbook of the same name, "Last Days of American Crime" will hit shelves next month as a bi-monthly, three-issue miniseries. Greg Tocchini illustrates.

 

Barry Levine, who heads up the comicbook's publisher Radical Publishing, is producing alongside Michael Schwarz.

 

Worthington is currently shooting the John Madden-helmed remake of "The Debt" opposite Helen Mirren. The thesp, who toplines Warner Bros.'s epic "Clash of the Titans," recently dropped out of the GK Films thriller "The Tourist" -- in which he would have starred opposite Angelina Jolie -- over creative differences. Johnny Depp is now aboard to star.

 

Worthington is repped by CAA

 

 

Is anyone familiar with this series? Have there been any previews on it?

 

[Kevin76]

Hollywood isn't desperate for movie ideas, it's just that superhero films are popular atm so they trying to cash in.

[slym2none]

Hollywood dosent want good stories that not many people know about.

 

No sh** - just look at the "Twilight" series...

 

 

 

-slym

[Marvelfangirl]

Hollywood dosent want good stories that not many people know about.

 

No sh** - just look at the "Twilight" series...

 

 

 

-slym

Sad but true

[RockMyAmadeus]

He recently penned a sequel to his 1991 surfer hit "Point Break,".

 

Forget the rest of this, this came out in 1991???

 

God, I feel old...

 

[seanfingh]

He recently penned a sequel to his 1991 surfer hit "Point Break,".

 

Forget the rest of this, this came out in 1991???

 

God, I feel old...

 

 

"We're going to be meat waffles, Johnny."

[Marvelfangirl]

He recently penned a sequel to his 1991 surfer hit "Point Break,".

 

Forget the rest of this, this came out in 1991???

 

God, I feel old...

 

Your not the only one that feels old (and I'm only 21)