Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category

Mike Newell is aimed for Prince of Persia

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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Michael Bay will not direct Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The latest news is that Disney and Jerry Burckheimer already met with Mike Newell. Mike Newell is not officially signed it but there are high expectations that he will take the offer.

His previous works include Bad Blood, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Mona Lisa Smile, and the latest Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. He has an extensive range on the movie genres, directed from comedy to romance and fantasy-action.

Disney has set July 10 next year for the movie release date in USA. The script has already been completed. Jefferey Nachmanoff, the writer for The Day After Tomorrow, and video game creator, Jordan Mechner, wrote Prince of Persia movie script.

The movie’s script is based on the video games. The story is about an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.

Source: First Showing

Golden Compass has anti religion theme?

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

It spreads out that Golden Compass, the first of His Dark Trilogy, turned out to has an anti religion theme. The movie that being released last December has drawing concerned from Christian. Is it really true?

His Dark Trilogy (paperback and hardcover) is created by Phillip Pullman, award winner for children literature in 1995 and 1997, who reveal himself as devoted atheist. The series themselves tell about the adventure of streetwise girl who travels through multiple worlds populated by witches, armored-plated bears, and assassins to defeat the oppressive forces of senile God.

Pullman himself told that he doesn’t profess any religion. He doesn’t think it’s possible that there is a God. He has the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ’spiritual’ or ’spirituality’. So be careful when you accompany your children watching the movie.

Source: Snope