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Nope, not my Barbarella

February 3, 2007 Dead Projects, Projects

A few readers have written in asking about the announcement by Dino De Laurentiis that he intends to make a new Barbarella. Specifically, will he be using my script? As far as I can tell, no. The rights to my script are incredibly murky–it was a shared project between Warner Bros. and Fox 2000, based […]

Music of The Nines

February 1, 2007 Go, Projects, The Nines

Alex Wurman, the composer for The Nines (as well as many other great scores, including March of the Penguins and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) has posted five tracks from the movie on his website. Of them, “Cold Turkey” is probably the most interesting without a visual to go with it. The “Knowing Theme” is […]

MTV Overdrive on The Nines

January 30, 2007 Follow Up, Projects, Sundance, The Nines

Josh Horowitz from MTV News wrote in to point out that The Flash business wasn’t the only thing they ran from our Sundance interview. In fact, the full version, now up on MTV Overdrive, succeeds in making both Ryan and me sound coherent, which is no small feat. Here’s what you can’t see in the […]

Sundance, expanded edition

January 25, 2007 Projects, Sundance, The Nines

Throughout the week, I’ve been trying to convey the Sundance experience with the Twitter feed, but there’s only so much one can communicate in a sentence or two. So I thought I’d fatten out a few entries to give a better sense of how Sundance really went. Checking through the itineraries and packing lists. Do […]

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