After the very high-profile exit from Ant-Man
Watch The Other Woman Online For now, all we have are outlines and photos of a project that could have been a darker turning point for Steven Spielberg's career. It wouldn't be the last turning point that could have marked his chance to take a darker path, but its one that I wouldn't mind seeing revived with his close supervision. If Steven Spielberg can help J.J. Abrams pay homage to E.T. in Super 8, then surely he could team up with someone like Adam Wingard (director of the home invasion thriller You're Next) or Jason Eisener (who provided a similar story with his Slumber Party Alien Abduction segment of V/H/S 2) and make Night Skies a reality.
Watch The Grand Budapest Hotel Online Kolchak was a major character for a demographic that is currently in the vicinity of 40: that same demographic went to Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp, but no one younger than that bothered, and that film lost quite a bit of money. This time around? It's probably likely Kolchak is left alone.
Watch Frozen Online After the success of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Steven Spielberg was eager to start work on Night Skies, a sequel to his alien masterpiece that would turn into a horror story of a family terrorized by a group of aliens, in a sort of Straw Dogs meets E.T storyline. If it wasn't for this project failing, E.T. would have never existed. Then again, judging by the newly released photos of his unused concepts for the film, E.T. never would have existed without the concept designs of Academy Award-winning creature designer Rick Baker.
Watch That Awkward Moment Online Cinematallica scooped the details, as well as some previously unreleased photos that Mr. Baker himself has been sharing through his official Twitter account. The work is the stuff that movie historians have dreamed of seeing, and it's nothing short of amazing. His concepts for the aliens of Night Skies, which predate Carlo Rambaldi's work on the E.T. character, prove to be a very heavy influence on the eventual form of everyone's favorite extraterrestrial. Taking his own creation, showcased on the top, and tweaking it ever so slightly, Baker shows us why these photos may not have seen the light of day until now.
Watch Heaven is for Real Online The film was going to utilize eleven different alien designs crafted by Rick Baker's own hand, each with their own distinct personalities and some even bearing names with their descriptions, as Cinematallica was keen on sharing. Among those eleven, Scar, Squirt, and Buddy were prominently mentioned, with the most villainous being Scar and the other two being in the kinder, gentler category. I'm willing to bet that "E.T.'s Dad" is none other than Scar himself, and below you'll see the design for the baby of the group, little Squirt himself.
Watch Rio 2 Online Why didn't we see Night Skies in a theater near us? Well, Harrison Ford's significant other at the time, Melissa Matheson, visited the set of the then in production Raiders Of The Lost Ark. While there, she came up with a softer version of the original John Sayles story that focused solely on a kind alien lost from home. A screenplay and a deleted cameo from her boyfriend later, E.T: The Extraterrestrial became a smash hit that would define Steven Spielberg's career and would give Carlo Rambaldi the credit for creating a creature so embedded in our cinematic iconography that it's hard to imagine him in any other form.
Watch The Raid 2 Online The report reminds us that a script by D.V. DiVincentis (Grosse Point Blank) has been completed (and has been for a while), and right now it's only about if Johnny Depp, who's been developing the project for years, signs on the dotted line. Depp is currently filming Black Mass. Disney's got him on the hook not only for the Alice In Wonderland follow-up Through The Looking Glass, but also Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales -- both sequels to billion dollar movies. There's motivation to make these movies, but not necessarily demand, particularly if Transcendence had anything to say about Depp's declining appeal as a leading man.
Watch A Haunted House 2 Online Of course, this is a pretty broad note by Deadline, and not indicative of an actual shift in development on The Night Stalker. Edgar Wright's likely got his choice of options, not to mention that long-rumored Baby Driver film he's set up back home at Working Title Films. And this is also Disney... are they really going to bring him back on after he ditched their Marvel project with a little more than a year to go before release? Studio politics ensure that everyone always ends up back in bed with one another, but the Ant-Man situation just might be too fresh in their memories to give this forgotten property a go.
Watch Transcendence Online After the very high-profile exit from Ant-Man, the entire industry is wondering what director Edgar Wright is going to do next. Will he return to England and make another smaller picture? Will he return to TV? Could he possibly set up shop at a new studio? According to one specious report, he might just return to Disney.
Deadline seems to feel that Wright could return to the Mouse House for Kolchak: The Night Stalker, a property he was developing years ago. This adaptation of the semi-popular seventies television series followed Carl Kolchak, a tabloid newspaperman who also served as something of a paranormal investigator, getting involved in cases involving werewolves, monsters and boogeymen. There was comedy not only in star Darren McGavin's incredulity at these monsters, but also the extreme skepticism shown by Kolchak's friends and colleagues. It's very likely the mixture of scares and laughs had a massive impact on Wright's cinematic interests. If you're curious, a lot of Kolchak appears to be on YouTube.
Watch The Other Woman Online For now, all we have are outlines and photos of a project that could have been a darker turning point for Steven Spielberg's career. It wouldn't be the last turning point that could have marked his chance to take a darker path, but its one that I wouldn't mind seeing revived with his close supervision. If Steven Spielberg can help J.J. Abrams pay homage to E.T. in Super 8, then surely he could team up with someone like Adam Wingard (director of the home invasion thriller You're Next) or Jason Eisener (who provided a similar story with his Slumber Party Alien Abduction segment of V/H/S 2) and make Night Skies a reality.
Watch The Grand Budapest Hotel Online Kolchak was a major character for a demographic that is currently in the vicinity of 40: that same demographic went to Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp, but no one younger than that bothered, and that film lost quite a bit of money. This time around? It's probably likely Kolchak is left alone.
Watch Frozen Online After the success of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Steven Spielberg was eager to start work on Night Skies, a sequel to his alien masterpiece that would turn into a horror story of a family terrorized by a group of aliens, in a sort of Straw Dogs meets E.T storyline. If it wasn't for this project failing, E.T. would have never existed. Then again, judging by the newly released photos of his unused concepts for the film, E.T. never would have existed without the concept designs of Academy Award-winning creature designer Rick Baker.
Watch That Awkward Moment Online Cinematallica scooped the details, as well as some previously unreleased photos that Mr. Baker himself has been sharing through his official Twitter account. The work is the stuff that movie historians have dreamed of seeing, and it's nothing short of amazing. His concepts for the aliens of Night Skies, which predate Carlo Rambaldi's work on the E.T. character, prove to be a very heavy influence on the eventual form of everyone's favorite extraterrestrial. Taking his own creation, showcased on the top, and tweaking it ever so slightly, Baker shows us why these photos may not have seen the light of day until now.
Watch Heaven is for Real Online The film was going to utilize eleven different alien designs crafted by Rick Baker's own hand, each with their own distinct personalities and some even bearing names with their descriptions, as Cinematallica was keen on sharing. Among those eleven, Scar, Squirt, and Buddy were prominently mentioned, with the most villainous being Scar and the other two being in the kinder, gentler category. I'm willing to bet that "E.T.'s Dad" is none other than Scar himself, and below you'll see the design for the baby of the group, little Squirt himself.
Watch Rio 2 Online Why didn't we see Night Skies in a theater near us? Well, Harrison Ford's significant other at the time, Melissa Matheson, visited the set of the then in production Raiders Of The Lost Ark. While there, she came up with a softer version of the original John Sayles story that focused solely on a kind alien lost from home. A screenplay and a deleted cameo from her boyfriend later, E.T: The Extraterrestrial became a smash hit that would define Steven Spielberg's career and would give Carlo Rambaldi the credit for creating a creature so embedded in our cinematic iconography that it's hard to imagine him in any other form.
Watch The Raid 2 Online The report reminds us that a script by D.V. DiVincentis (Grosse Point Blank) has been completed (and has been for a while), and right now it's only about if Johnny Depp, who's been developing the project for years, signs on the dotted line. Depp is currently filming Black Mass. Disney's got him on the hook not only for the Alice In Wonderland follow-up Through The Looking Glass, but also Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales -- both sequels to billion dollar movies. There's motivation to make these movies, but not necessarily demand, particularly if Transcendence had anything to say about Depp's declining appeal as a leading man.
Watch A Haunted House 2 Online Of course, this is a pretty broad note by Deadline, and not indicative of an actual shift in development on The Night Stalker. Edgar Wright's likely got his choice of options, not to mention that long-rumored Baby Driver film he's set up back home at Working Title Films. And this is also Disney... are they really going to bring him back on after he ditched their Marvel project with a little more than a year to go before release? Studio politics ensure that everyone always ends up back in bed with one another, but the Ant-Man situation just might be too fresh in their memories to give this forgotten property a go.
Watch Transcendence Online After the very high-profile exit from Ant-Man, the entire industry is wondering what director Edgar Wright is going to do next. Will he return to England and make another smaller picture? Will he return to TV? Could he possibly set up shop at a new studio? According to one specious report, he might just return to Disney.
Deadline seems to feel that Wright could return to the Mouse House for Kolchak: The Night Stalker, a property he was developing years ago. This adaptation of the semi-popular seventies television series followed Carl Kolchak, a tabloid newspaperman who also served as something of a paranormal investigator, getting involved in cases involving werewolves, monsters and boogeymen. There was comedy not only in star Darren McGavin's incredulity at these monsters, but also the extreme skepticism shown by Kolchak's friends and colleagues. It's very likely the mixture of scares and laughs had a massive impact on Wright's cinematic interests. If you're curious, a lot of Kolchak appears to be on YouTube.
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