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The Director Of MONSTER HOUSE And Robert Zemeckis Take Flight With AIRMAN!!


Merrick here...

Robert Zemeckis will produce a Gil Kenan directed adaptation of Eoin Colfe's book AIRMAN (available HERE).

Based on a book by Eoin Colfer, story centers on Connor, a boy who lives on an island off the coast of Ireland, where his father is the king's bodyguard. When the king is murdered, Conor is blamed for the crime and thrown into prison where he passes the solitary months designing a flying machine that he will use to save his family.

...says Variety HERE.

The project will be scripted by Ann Peacock (the first NARNIA movie, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE) and will be a motion capture extravaganza a-la Zemeckis' BEOWULF (as well as his forthcoming takes on A CHRISTMAS CAROL and YELLOW SUBMARINE).

The AIRMAN movie is gonna cost $150 million - which I hear is actually a little less than some of the other motion capture stuff we've already seen (if the figures I heard were accurately presented). Maybe I'm being incredibly naive, but...if these damn pseudo-cartoons are costing as much as, if not more than, live-action fare...where's the upside to this technology? Am I missing something?

This said, I'm an enormous fan of MONSTER HOUSE - which Kenan directed - so more power to him. I never saw CITY OF EMBER, his MH follow-up. Was it OK?




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FIRST!!
by ATARI
Oct 20th, 2009
12:40:22 PM
First
by Amfpsych
Oct 20th, 2009
12:42:41 PM
Atari
by Amfpsych
Oct 20th, 2009
12:43:40 PM
turd
by smiteboy
Oct 20th, 2009
12:43:53 PM
Borrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
by catlettuce4
Oct 20th, 2009
12:47:32 PM
Sucked
by redcode
Oct 20th, 2009
12:48:09 PM
Fucking idiots
by rosncranz
Oct 20th, 2009
01:05:10 PM
The director of Monster House and Robert Zemeckis?
by tonagan
Oct 20th, 2009
01:18:38 PM
Is Bob's wife still doing Porn?
by cookylamoo
Oct 20th, 2009
01:19:31 PM

by Tangent
Oct 20th, 2009
01:24:34 PM
Cit of Ember was literally just OK
by awepittance
Oct 20th, 2009
01:41:12 PM
It's official...
by drompter
Oct 20th, 2009
02:00:04 PM
drompter
by slone13
Oct 20th, 2009
02:01:52 PM
THIS WILL BE SICK..
by Maverick1
Oct 20th, 2009
02:13:05 PM
Motion Capture
by MediaNerd
Oct 20th, 2009
02:24:54 PM
The CHRISTMAS CAROL trailer before WTWTA...
by FlickaPoo
Oct 20th, 2009
02:25:41 PM
...and CITY OF EMBER was unwatchable...
by FlickaPoo
Oct 20th, 2009
02:26:45 PM
Star Trek Voyager did an episode like that
by lockesbrokenleg
Oct 20th, 2009
02:35:02 PM
Monster House = fawesome
by HarryCalder
Oct 20th, 2009
02:45:50 PM
$150 Million is granted to a director whose not a
by ghostcuster
Oct 20th, 2009
02:48:07 PM
Does Conor live on Craggy Island?
by Dingbatty
Oct 20th, 2009
02:57:21 PM
ghostcuster
by Dingbatty
Oct 20th, 2009
03:01:41 PM
Not only could you do it live-action for 150 million,
by Jardinier
Oct 20th, 2009
03:23:01 PM
Monster House was mo-cap
by Belasco_House
Oct 20th, 2009
03:26:24 PM
City of Ember was really interesting.
by Rorschach1
Oct 20th, 2009
03:27:29 PM
They got hollow eyes...dead eyes..like a DOLL'S eyes...
by Nasty In The Pasty
Oct 20th, 2009
03:33:49 PM
Gil Kenan is a cool dude
by s0nicdeathmonkey
Oct 20th, 2009
03:37:15 PM
MONSTER HOUSE was okay
by Jardinier
Oct 20th, 2009
03:39:23 PM
Medianerd: people aren't complaining about art style
by Flip63Hole
Oct 20th, 2009
03:39:52 PM
The longer I think about that...
by Jardinier
Oct 20th, 2009
03:41:53 PM
Mo-Cap=Movies that look like fucking Video games
by conspiracy
Oct 20th, 2009
03:48:21 PM
The human eye can detect Bullshit....
by conspiracy
Oct 20th, 2009
04:04:35 PM
City of Ember -- What was up with that ending?
by PoorOLtinTin
Oct 20th, 2009
04:37:08 PM
City of Ember
by jazzgalaxy
Oct 20th, 2009
04:48:01 PM
conspiracy
by lockesbrokenleg
Oct 20th, 2009
05:15:40 PM
Hey, remember
by TommyGavinsEgo
Oct 20th, 2009
05:27:24 PM
Wake me up when Zemeckis works with flesh-actors again.
by Raymar
Oct 20th, 2009
05:32:36 PM
City of Ember deserved a better run than it got.
by OutlawsDelejos
Oct 20th, 2009
06:41:11 PM
Embrace the mo-cap
by slone13
Oct 20th, 2009
06:42:51 PM
Pinocchio was mo-cap
by Professor Falcon
Oct 20th, 2009
06:47:36 PM
Glad to see a Colfer film, but Artemis Fowl is his best
by pipergates
Oct 20th, 2009
06:52:03 PM
More Zemeckis mo-cap crap? Whoooo cares.
by Orbots Commander
Oct 20th, 2009
07:02:33 PM
lockesbrokenleg...Models physically exist..
by conspiracy
Oct 20th, 2009
07:09:07 PM
Bad taste has nothing to do with mocap
by Chesterfield Slacks
Oct 20th, 2009
07:13:27 PM
Dude, Conspiracy
by lockesbrokenleg
Oct 20th, 2009
07:38:25 PM
"What's the upside of this technology?"
by ThusSpakeSpymunk
Oct 20th, 2009
08:32:22 PM
The Brain DOES Detect Bullshit
by ThusSpakeSpymunk
Oct 20th, 2009
08:37:47 PM
Lockes...I do not Hate CGI...
by conspiracy
Oct 20th, 2009
09:41:29 PM
Revisit
by MediaNerd
Oct 20th, 2009
09:47:45 PM
The Eyes of the Dragon ripoff?
by PRbuick
Oct 20th, 2009
09:58:00 PM
MoCap is very valid tech
by Chesterfield Slacks
Oct 20th, 2009
10:50:57 PM
Looooooved City of Ember
by Atomica
Oct 20th, 2009
11:10:49 PM
Jim Carrey is a human cartoon character.
by Dingbatty
Oct 20th, 2009
11:34:45 PM
Did you know the Star Wars prequels had more
by lockesbrokenleg
Oct 21st, 2009
02:35:23 AM
Fuck Robert Zemeckis
by AsimovLives
Oct 21st, 2009
03:56:11 AM
Said it before, and I'll say it again
by Mr Gorilla
Oct 21st, 2009
04:29:17 AM
Oh, on the CG thing...
by Mr Gorilla
Oct 21st, 2009
04:36:38 AM
City Of Ember
by micturatingbenjamin
Oct 21st, 2009
07:19:23 AM
UP cost $175 million.
by I_am_not_the_droid_you_are_loo king_for
Oct 21st, 2009
07:38:11 AM
Gollum, Kong
by bah
Oct 21st, 2009
08:45:04 AM
Professor Falcon:
by Jardinier
Oct 21st, 2009
09:59:08 AM
Zemeckis needs to have contact with a human again
by Robots In Das Guys
Oct 21st, 2009
10:16:17 AM
Beowulf
by Chesterfield Slacks
Oct 21st, 2009
01:32:26 PM
fuck it, let Zemeckis do what he wants...
by TheDark0Knight
Oct 22nd, 2009
06:35:07 AM
fuck it, let Zemeckis do what he wants...
by TheDark0Knight
Oct 22nd, 2009
06:35:48 AM

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