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Twilight Series Scribe to Write and Produce Earthseed Adaptation [Updated]
With the Twilight films winding down and the first movie of The Hunger Games adaptations set for 2012, studios are looking for the next franchise to bolster their revenues. Paramount has tagged Twilight series screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg to write and produce an adaptation of Earthseed, a young adult sci-fi novel by Pamela Sargent. The 1983 novel revolves around children living aboard a spaceship that is traveling in search of other habitable worlds. The kids, growing up without parents, have to learn to coexist in an Earth-like simulation aboard the ship. Two sequels to Earthseed have recently been penned by Sargent, which makes the franchise all the more attractive to adapt.Hit the jump for more from Rosenberg and a full synopsis of Earthseed. [Update: We've been sent the full press release and included it after the jump]. In talking to THR, Rosenberg discusses Earthseed and her interpretation of the source material:“It really talks about the debate of nature vs. nurture, what is innately human and»
- Dave Trumbore
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Farley Granger, 1925-2011
The Los Angeles Times reports that Farley Granger passed away Sunday of natural causes at his home in Manhattan. The star of many films, including the classic film noir "They Live By Night," was 85 years old.
Today Granger is probably best remembered as the star of two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers: 1948's "Rope" and 1951's "Strangers on a Train." Hitchcock himself wasn't the biggest fan of Granger's work, at least in his own movies. In their book-length interview he told director Francois Truffaut he "wasn't too pleased with Farley Granger; he's a good actor, but I would have liked to see William Holden in the part because he's stronger." Truffaut rightfully came to Granger's aid, pointing out that part of the reason "Strangers on a Train" works is that Granger downplayed the part of Guy in order to make his opposite number in the film, Robert Walker as the psychotic killer Bruno,»
- Matt Singer
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