In this exclusive interview, Traffic writer and Syriana writer/director Stephen Gaghan talks about how he writing a video game like Call Of Duty: Ghosts differs from writing movies and how his work on the game may impact how he directs his next film.
Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle, starring Robert Downey Jr., is off to a bad start, grossing just $22 million at the domestic box office this weekend.
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Out of one project, into another — although Chris Hemsworth won’t be seen in the thriller American Assassin, he’s lining up another project in the genre and one much more anticipated for this writer. We reported over the summer that Stephen Gaghan, gave us the complex, adult drama Syriana back in 2005 is finally readying his follow-up, a crime drama titled Candy Store.
The project has Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz interested, and most likely to join, in addition to Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Bradley Cooper. But now the talented Hemsworth is lining up a role in the project which follows and ”elite, highly trained deep-cover operative who loses everything, ultimately disappearing into Brooklyn, where he must start again. He washes up as a beat cop, only to discover the global organization he was dedicated to fighting is also operating in his new backyard.” There’s no start date on the production yet, but expect more inform...
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Despite the fact that his past few scripted projects were undeniably terrible (like really, truly terrible), writer-director M. Night Shyamalan is still making movies. His latest is a sci-fi pic called One Thousand A.E. starring none other than Will Smith and his karate-kicking son Jaden. The film centers on a father-son duo who crash-land on Earth one thousand years after humans have abandoned the planet. With his father seriously injured, the young boy must set out to find help on the now strange and harsh planet. The project was initially scripted by Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli), but since Shyamalan is so good at making movies he decided to take a crack at the script himself to tailor it to his own interest (ie. terribleness).
CoD: Ghosts is by far his worst work (that I've seen so far).