Film News (31/01/09)

A couple of new films greenlit, another finds a new financer and an exciting cast coming together, and this is only the news I've picked up on this week.

Chrionicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

So having been dumped unceremoniously by Disney it was thought that Dawn Treader, the 5th of C.S. Lewis' novels, 3rd film, might not happen. Until this week when Fox came up with a package to launch the venture. I realise the last couple have been pretty poor, and this one brings back the insufferable Ben Barnes as Caspian, but it's by far the best book and it all takes place on a boat so what's not to love.



Fully Automatic

Joel Silver is back back back. Just when you thought the buddy cop action thriller was dead Joeal has resurrected the Lethal Weapon series, only with a different name and new actors, and joins them up with a crack group of female vigilantes. Or some such nonsense. Imagine fast cars, witty dialogue and big explosions.

Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman's high successful fantasy novel, The Graveyard Book, will be brought to the screen by Neil Jordan. Surely it should be called the Graveyard Movie? It's all about a boy adopted by ghosts, and it's all being made in Blighty.

A Woman of No Importance

Amanda Seyfried, her of the funny eyes in Mamma Mia!, has joined the already announced Annette Bening and Sean Bean in Oscar Wilde's other classic. I'm not a big fan of Seyfried but at least it's a step closer to seeing Bening in this role.