Ripley back in business, rewrites confirmed
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:08 am
Thanks to my friend Rama (ramascreen.com) I've found this update on Ripley's Believe it or Not :
I want -and not kidding at all- Spike Jonze to do this, the reason : His vision on 'Where the Wild Things Are', that was amazing and incredibly strong.
Wow! This project still exists? Haven’t heard about this one in the longest time. Back in 2007 Tim Burton was attached to direct Jim Carrey in a biopic based on the life the man, the legend behind Ripley’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, columnist Robert Ripley…
Long story short, the project halted and Burton left to do Sweeney Todd and then in 2008, Chris Columbus (Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, Percy Jackson) was attached to the project. Carrey was still set to star as Ripley. Scripted by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and budgeted at $175 Million, the project was supposed to be ready to go but it halted .. again..
Now, Deadline reported that Paramount is giving it another try by hiring Oscar winning scribe Eric Roth to do a complete rewrite. And guess what.. Carrey is still attached to star as Ripley
I always have faith in Roth, not only because he adapted my favorite film of all time, Forrest Gump, but he’s quite consistent, he scripted The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Munich, The Good Shepherd and the upcoming EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.
The movie Ripley’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT will be “about Ripley’s search around the world for the most unusual people and places that he immortalized in his newspaper column. The locales were exotic and the sights were unbelievable, …about Ripley’s journey to appreciate that the unusual people were more than just conquests to be cataloged.”
Can’t wait to see who Paramount’s going to hire as the director.. Encountering the unusual and the unbelievable would require a visionary filmmaker with wacky imagination. Too bad Burton’s out of the picture.
Hey, Gondry and Gilliam are still around.
I want -and not kidding at all- Spike Jonze to do this, the reason : His vision on 'Where the Wild Things Are', that was amazing and incredibly strong.