There’s another FUGITIVE movie coming to the big screen, although little is known about it at this juncture.
THE FUGITIVE last appeared on the big screen as a 1993 adaptation of the 1960s David Jansen series of the same name, and that film’s producers are apparently returning for this new effort.
The studio has set Christina Hodson — whose The Eden Project was bought at auction by Sony, and whose script Shut In is completing shooting with Naomi Watts for EuropaCorp — to write it.
Arnold and Anne Kopelson are returning as producers, but they would not say if Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones will be coming back for an encore.
…says THIS piece at Deadline.
I was in Chicago for the filming of the 1993 movie. I stumbled onto the shoot by accident, and somehow ended up very briefly in the film (they were filming in public place where I happened to be). It’s the St. Patrick’s Day parade sequence. I was standing there like a dumb shit (more so than usual) watching the parade, unaware that a steady cam and the film’s stars would be zooping by momentarily. I’d wandered into the parade are via an unusual route and missed all the signs which gave spectators a more than adequate heads-up re: what was going on.
I finally caught on before I did something dorky to screw up the shot. I vividly remember how kind and welcoming the folks in that area of Chicago were on that day - how smoothly controlled the whole affair seemed to be, especially given that a major movie was shooting in the midst of a real and sizable parade. I also remember how unbelievably fucking cold it was…but that’s another story.
No word yet on when we might expect this one to roll around, but with work just starting on the picture, there are a million hurdles to clear before we might learn more about what the Kopelsons have planned.
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Glen Oliver
“Merrick”
