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Producer Mike Medavoy has acquired rights to the story of the 33 mine workers who were trapped underground for 69 days in the fall and rescued in front of worldwide news cameras.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera (Motorcycle Diaries) will adapt the movie, which is scheduled to go into production next year.
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Oscar nominee Jose Rivera, whose work includes The Motorcycle Diaries and On The Road, is on board to write the screenplay for The Dog Whisperer, Mucho Mas Media’s upcoming biopic on famed dog behaviorist Cesar Millan.
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entertainment president David Nevins is getting back in business with his former company Imagine TV in a big way. Showtime has put in development Conquest, a sweeping period drama that has been a passion project of Imagine principal Ron Howard. Oscar-winner Howard is attached to direct Conquest, which will be written by Oscar-nominated scribe Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries). Conquest, from Imagine TV and 20th Century Fox TV’s cable division Fox21, tells the story of famed Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes, who led the Spanish conquest in Mexico, and his clash with Moctezuma II, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire which fell at the hands of Cortes and his men. Filled with blood, lust, gold, magic and mythology, Conquest is described as “a classic war story about two powerful men and their people ultimately leading to the destruction of the Aztec culture and the men themselves.”
I like this era so this would be a good movie if done right and who better than Ron Howard?
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The Wildest Dream director Anthony Geffen has cemented his relationship with that doc’s executive producer, Mike Medavoy. They are getting their Geffen Medavoy Pictures banner off the ground with a branded slate of high-end documentaries--most shot 3D--to bring to life ancient empires, dinosaurs and other historical topics. Budgets on the 3D films will fall between $11 million and $15 million.
I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. It is a good story and I don't really know what kind of movie it would make since most of it was waiting but I'm sure there was a lot in drama behind closed doors that we weren't aware of.
Hollywood must seriously be running out of ideas if it anxiously awaits each big disaster so that they can feed off and exploit the story and its victims.
Sickening, truly.