NBC wants to hack back into “Sneakers.” The network has bought a script for a proposed series remake of the 1992 feature, which starred Robert Redford as a hacker leading a team of computer security specialists. The original movie cast also included Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley and River Phoenix. At the moment, there is no cast attached or episodic order for the NBC series. But the executive producers for the TV version are Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald; Parkes co-wrote and was one of the producers on the original film. Tom Szentgyorgyi, who has worked on “The Mentalist,” is also on.
- 10/22/2016
- by Scott Collins
- The Wrap
• Naomi Watts, Elle Fanning, and Susan Sarandon have signed on for Three Generations. Gaby Dellal is directing the indie from a script by Nikole Beckwith. The story follows a New York City teen, Ray (Fanning), who is transitioning from female to male and her mother, Maggie (Watts), who must come to terms with Ray’s transition. Meanwhile, Maggie’s mother, Dolly (Sarandon), a music manager who lives with her lesbian partner, Frances, has trouble understanding Ray’s decision and Maggie’s inability to move out of the house she grew up in. Big Beach co-founders Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub...
- 10/31/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Fresh off the success of his uproarious viral video interview with President Barack Obama on his popular web series Between Two Ferns, Zach Galifianakis has lined up a new film project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the portly funnyman will star with Jon Hamm in the Fox 2000 comedy Keeping Up With The Joneses.
Greg Mottola, director of the critically acclaimed and commercially beloved smash hit Superbad (as well as the Simon Pegg/Seth Rogen alien invasion comedy Paul, and the criminally slept-on Jesse Eisenberg coming-of-age dramedy Adventureland), is confirmed as director. Additionally, Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald are on board as producers.
Parkes and McDonald have been developing the project for two years now, and have secured the involvement of Galifianakis and Hamm within the past month. Mottola has already closed his deal to direct, while the two stars are still in the process of negotiating their deals.
The script...
Greg Mottola, director of the critically acclaimed and commercially beloved smash hit Superbad (as well as the Simon Pegg/Seth Rogen alien invasion comedy Paul, and the criminally slept-on Jesse Eisenberg coming-of-age dramedy Adventureland), is confirmed as director. Additionally, Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald are on board as producers.
Parkes and McDonald have been developing the project for two years now, and have secured the involvement of Galifianakis and Hamm within the past month. Mottola has already closed his deal to direct, while the two stars are still in the process of negotiating their deals.
The script...
- 3/17/2014
- by Jeff Castilla
- We Got This Covered
Melissa Leo and James Badge Dale have joined the cast of Robert Zemeckis' "Flight" at Paramount Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.
Denzel Washington plays a pilot who rescues his passengers from a dangerous situation but who turns out not to be as heroic as he appears as his negligence (due to an addiction) was partly responsible for the danger in the first place.
Leo will play an investigator determined to expose the pilot, while Dale portrays a man dying of cancer.
Zemeckis helms from a screenplay by John Gatins. Walter F. Parkes and Laurie McDonald are producing.
Denzel Washington plays a pilot who rescues his passengers from a dangerous situation but who turns out not to be as heroic as he appears as his negligence (due to an addiction) was partly responsible for the danger in the first place.
Leo will play an investigator determined to expose the pilot, while Dale portrays a man dying of cancer.
Zemeckis helms from a screenplay by John Gatins. Walter F. Parkes and Laurie McDonald are producing.
- 10/2/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Frequent James Bond scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are set to pen an untitled thriller for, according to Risky Biz Blog.
The story takes place in West Africa and revolves around the Tuareg tribes, whose land is rich with uranium and has garnered interest by energy companies and terrorist organizations alike.
An American anthropologist gets stuck in the middle of this conflict when he is forced to travel to the area to help a research subject, who has been accused of a terrorist attack.
Walter F. Parkes and Laurie McDonald will produce while the script is based off an idea by Parkes and Michael Lieber. Parkes describes the tone as "an action movie set within a world that is morally complex, alluring and completely real."...
The story takes place in West Africa and revolves around the Tuareg tribes, whose land is rich with uranium and has garnered interest by energy companies and terrorist organizations alike.
An American anthropologist gets stuck in the middle of this conflict when he is forced to travel to the area to help a research subject, who has been accused of a terrorist attack.
Walter F. Parkes and Laurie McDonald will produce while the script is based off an idea by Parkes and Michael Lieber. Parkes describes the tone as "an action movie set within a world that is morally complex, alluring and completely real."...
- 8/18/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The 1948 film The Fallen Idol set for a new remake? Yeah, it’s true! Thanks to producers Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald we’ll soon have a chance to see the modern version of a classic film, originally directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, starring Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan.
And this time, David Farr, a writer on BBC’s spy series “Mi-5” is attached as screenwriter.
The original film was about a butler working in the French embassy in London who falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
But, at this moment we have information that Parkes is updating the story to present-day India and telling the story through the eyes of an 11-year-old American:
“The boy’s family will live in a large colonial mansion run by the English couple. That way, the world...
And this time, David Farr, a writer on BBC’s spy series “Mi-5” is attached as screenwriter.
The original film was about a butler working in the French embassy in London who falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
But, at this moment we have information that Parkes is updating the story to present-day India and telling the story through the eyes of an 11-year-old American:
“The boy’s family will live in a large colonial mansion run by the English couple. That way, the world...
- 6/3/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Columbia Pictures has officially signed Will Smith for Men in Black 3. The studio has also already signed director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) and has scheduled to the 3D movie to open on May 25th, 2012.
Walter F. Parkes and Laurie McDonald are returning to produce with Steven Spielberg executive producing. Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) wrote the script, which underwent a polish by David Koepp (Spider-Man)..
According to the studio, Tommy Lee Jones is in advance negotiations to reprise his role as Agent Kay and Josh Brolin is in talks to star as a “young” Agent Kay.
In a statement, Sony Pictures Chairman Jeff Blake proclaimed,
“Sony’s summer of 2012 will get off to a red hot start with an incredible new 3D adventure for the Men in Black. We couldn’t be more excited that the original filmmaking team responsible for the first two worldwide hits is reuniting for this third installment.
Walter F. Parkes and Laurie McDonald are returning to produce with Steven Spielberg executive producing. Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) wrote the script, which underwent a polish by David Koepp (Spider-Man)..
According to the studio, Tommy Lee Jones is in advance negotiations to reprise his role as Agent Kay and Josh Brolin is in talks to star as a “young” Agent Kay.
In a statement, Sony Pictures Chairman Jeff Blake proclaimed,
“Sony’s summer of 2012 will get off to a red hot start with an incredible new 3D adventure for the Men in Black. We couldn’t be more excited that the original filmmaking team responsible for the first two worldwide hits is reuniting for this third installment.
- 5/8/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
If Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald weren’t experienced producers who have worked with Steven Spielberg, the way they’ve been buying up new scripts would make us think they were teenagers who just got their first credit card. Their most recent purchase? An untitled action comedy from writers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.The idea follows three improv-trained actors hired by the police to help out in a sting to bust a DVD pirating operation. But, in a plot that sounds like it’ll have a Tropic Thunder vibe, the bootlegging turns out to be a front for something much more illegal, and the trio end up on the run from the criminals and their own police handlers.Apparently it all got started when Trevorrow did some research about police forces actually doing this. No, not chasing down actors intending to kill them… the part about using them in low-level,...
- 3/29/2010
- EmpireOnline
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