Cool News
MONSTER HOUSE Makers Team Again For AIRMAN!!
I am – Hercules!!
“Airman,” a children’s book by Eoin Colfer (“Artemis Fowl”), will be the next motion-capture movie for “Monster House” masterminds Gil Kenan and Robert Zemeckis.
The Hollywood Reporter describes the premise:
The swashbuckling scientific story centers on Conor Broekhart, a young man born in a hot air balloon to a family close to the king who has a penchant for looking to the skies for inspiration. After his tutor and king are murdered, Broekhart spends two years in prison, escapes and must decide whether to should turn his back on those who abandoned him or fight those who plot to overthrow the government.
"Airman" director Kenan's follow-up to "Monster House" is Universal's Oct. 10 sci-fi tale "City of Ember." "Airman" roducer Zemeckis directed the motion-capture features "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf."
Find all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.
-
+ Expand All
-
Loveitloveitloveitloveit!
-
not often a good sign when a director signs up for a job before the last film comes out, is it? I interviewed Kenan for Monster House. He's a good guy. Lots of energy. Lots of life. Very funny and smart.
-
This sounds fab!
-
Incidentally, Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
-
Its a good sign s0nicdeathmonkey. It means the studios have faith that City of Ember will make a decent amount of money and are thus willing to spend some more money on him for another project.
-
Monster house was cool, hate this filming then digimatizing thing though. like the early 80's 3D fad.
-
...but he's just been employed by Douglas Adams' widow to continue the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy books, with a sixth installment called 'And Another Thing..."
-
Sorry The_Skook. That'll teach me to skim talkbacks.
-
Gonna be a lotta spikes in that movie.
-
Sep 18, 2008 6:22:15 AM CDT
Gil Kenan and Robert Zemeckis?
by elvispresleehorsleyharveyoswaldoprahwinf
What about Rob Schrab & Dan Harmon?
They made Monster House cool.
Scud pwns you, you know this to be true. -
will this be the realistic look zemeckis is going for with his directed movies or will it be the same cartoony style that monster house used? either way, with his new motion capture affair, how long before he makes back to the future 4 using it? i mean micheal j. fox could even just do the voice if he wasnt up for the actual acting and shit. and since those movies are still in 1985, imagine all the awesome 3D jokes they could use, pure cinematic gold.
-
And that's interesting about a new Back To The Future, BouncyX. If they released a new one in 2015, we'd have 3 of them set 30 years apart.
-
"So...it's a GIRL house!"
-
If I was at DC I'd consider mo-cap with the JL. The TMNT trailer was probably one of the best Superhero trailers in a long time. I think Airman (despite the LAME name) sounds like it has some real potential.
-
of "Kenan and Kel," and immediately wonder why the guys from "Goodburger" are involved.
I need to get back on my meds. -
I know Zemeckis' company signed a deal to make films for Disney, so is this one of them? Or is it with another company?
-
Sep 18, 2008 8:50:26 AM CDT
Will this fucker EVER direct another live action movie?
by robots in das guys
Seriously? At least this shite is from the MONSTER HOUSE peeps...
-
Sep 18, 2008 9:01:30 AM CDT
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm getting tired of the...
by flickapoo
..."Myst" aesthetic...you know, that retro/future with all the nifty brass riveted contraptions slowly tarnishing to a beautiful soft patina...flying machines, bridges, and giant gears all over the place...
-
Sep 18, 2008 9:10:25 AM CDT
FlickaPoo, with the rise in popularity of Steampunk
by shut the fuck up donny
I think you're going to see a lot more of this aesthetic--not less--in the upcoming future. In the past two years alone at scifi/fantasy conventions, this crowd has grown exponentially.
-
as I don't think you can say something is growing exponentially from only two points. heh.
-
So fucking cliche and run into the ground.
-
Opening at #4. Mark my words.
-
And it's the most god-awful piece of shit you've ever heard!
-
Vocals are terrible, though. The song sounds like a bad, bad Portishead song with lots of horns and strings.
-
Airman was a pretty good book, compared to a lot of the other Harry Potter knockoffs out there in the middle grade market. But why hasn't Artemis Fowl been made into a movie yet? That book is screaming for some awesome graphics. If you've read it, just image the fight between Butler and the Troll in glorious CGI. And if it does well, books 2 through 6 could be next (though 4 and 5 weren't quite up to par...)
-
Didn't we get enough of this in both Rocketeer and Sky Cap and the World of Tomorrow? Yawn.
-
Colfer is a bit slick but is full of crazy ideas, warped humour and biting dialogues...would love to see Artemis Fowl the movie.
-
That's all. I really like Monster Squad. Go Zemeckis! Come back to live-action!
-
FUND IT! no seriously!
-
ITS FUCKING DONE!! The gimmick is over. Anyone still paying to see this horse shit should be shot and pissed on.
-
And once good ol' Zemeckis has perfected it, he's gonna make Back to te Future 4 with a young and non-shaky mo capped Michal J Fox. He told me!!
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- Whitney Houston 1963 - 2012 -- 439 total posts 159 posts
- WTF HOLLYWOOD: SOLARBABIES -- 144 total posts 142 posts
- Herc’s Seen Tonight’s Return Of THE WALKING DEAD!! Discuss Also DOWNTON ABBEY, FEAR FACTOR, PAN AM, ONCE, SIMPSONS, DYNAMITE, LUCK, SHAMELESS, BAIT CAR, THE GRAMMYS And More!! Sunday Is Sweeps Day 11!! -- 155 total posts 140 posts
- Avid Comic Reader Hercules Does Battle With Tedium During Kevin Smith’s COMIC BOOK MEN! -- 55 total posts 45 posts
- There's a STAR TREK video game that is going to lead into JJ's STAR TREK 2 apparently... -- 196 total posts 45 posts
- I am The Behind the Scenes Pics of the Day! No, I’m the Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day! -- 35 total posts 35 posts
- If the Behind the Scenes Pics of the Day drops her pen, pick it up, but don’t look at her legs or else it will be on your record. -- 60 total posts 34 posts
- New JUDGE DREDD post production footage pops up -- 127 total posts 32 posts
- To Commemorate The 3D Release Of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, George Lucas Wants You To Know...Greedo Shoots First!! -- 513 total posts 29 posts
- The Sensorties Revisit The Friday Docback (And Still Smell)!! DOCTOR WHO Story #7 Again, The Coming Of Season/Series 7, And More!! -- 118 total posts 27 posts