Karate Kid 2 just landed some new writers. Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer have been hired to work on the script for the sequel to the 2010 movie.
Friedman and Palmer, who are known for their action comedy scripts, are taking over for Zak Penn and team Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who previously worked on the script. Previously, Breck Eisner was set to direct the sequel, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
The original movie, directed by Harald Zwart, was a reboot of the 1984 classic starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, and opened big with $55.6 million in June 2011, before going on to gross $359 million worldwide.
Both Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith are planning to reprise their roles for the sequel.
As for Friedman and Palmer, they're writing Family Getaway for Warners with Todd Strauss-Schulson attached to direct; as well as Secretaries Day set up at Columbia with Will Gluck producing...
Friedman and Palmer, who are known for their action comedy scripts, are taking over for Zak Penn and team Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who previously worked on the script. Previously, Breck Eisner was set to direct the sequel, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
The original movie, directed by Harald Zwart, was a reboot of the 1984 classic starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, and opened big with $55.6 million in June 2011, before going on to gross $359 million worldwide.
Both Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith are planning to reprise their roles for the sequel.
As for Friedman and Palmer, they're writing Family Getaway for Warners with Todd Strauss-Schulson attached to direct; as well as Secretaries Day set up at Columbia with Will Gluck producing...
- 6/26/2014
- by Laura Frances
- LRMonline.com
Sony and Will Smith‘s Overbrook Entertainment have hired screenwriting team Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer to write Karate Kid 2, which now has an empty director’s chair as Breck Eisner has exited due to conflicting schedules. The scribes follow Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris and Zak Penn, who previously had been tapped to write the sequel. Friedman and Palmer’s action comedy script Family Getaway made the 2010 Black List, and the pair was subsequently hired to script the Bodyguard remake for Warner Bros-based Lin Pictures. They earned more press in 2012 when they sold their Die Hard-esque pitch Speeding Bullet […]...
- 6/26/2014
- Deadline
After making his feature film debut with A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, director Todd Strauss-Schulson has lined up several future projects including an adaptation of Rascal Raccoon, a horror comedy called Final Girls, and an action comedy Family Getaway. But as he waits to get those projects off the ground, the filmmaker has still been busy. Earlier this year he delivered the David Cronenberg-esque short Valibation (watch it here), and now he's working on a new feature called The Entertain_bot that uses some impressive camera techniques to shoot a dance sequence in a way audiences haven't seen before. Here's the proof of concept for Todd Strauss-Schulson's The Entertain_Bot from Vimeo: Strauss-Schulson sent us the video, which is preceded with the text, "I have always wanted to shoot dance numbers in a hyper cinematic way. Doing what Busby Berkeley would do if he were alive today. Having...
- 10/15/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
For those unaware, Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon is no longer directing the comedy sequel Horrible Bosses 2 for Universal. Apparently scheduling conflicts forced him to drop out of the project, and we decided to wait until his replacement stepped up to throw all the news out there. Now THR has word that Sean Anders will direct the film and his writing partner John Morris will produce, fresh off their writing duties on the R-rated comedy We're the Millers. We're a little disappointed in this choice since Anders was behind That's My Boy, however, the duo's work on Sex Drive was more entertaining. Read on! The duo weren't the only ones pursued to replace Gordon though. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson was also in contention, but he's likely more focused with forthcoming projects like the comedy Family Getaway, an adaptation of the unique graphic novel Rascal Raccoon, and...
- 9/4/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Warners clearly wants to be in the Todd Strauss-Schulson business and you can't blame them after his debut feature, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, made them a decent amount of green. And after the third installment in the stoner comedy proved to be another weed smoking success, the studio quickly offered Strauss-Schulson the action comedy Family Getaway. Now Warner Bros. is turning to the young filmmaker again for their recently acquired Rascal Raccoon.s Raging Revenge. THR reports that the studio wants Strauss-Schulson to direct Matt Fogel's adaptation of the Oni Press graphic novel from author Brendan Hay and artist Justin Wagner. The comic is set in a place called Toonie Terrace, where the Toonies and the Meanies constantly engage in all forms of animated shenanigans, especially since the latter are really intent on killing the former (as is oddly the case in most cartoons). However, no Meanie...
- 5/2/2012
- cinemablend.com
Following the release of A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, director Todd Strauss-Schulson landed a couple new gigs for an adventure comedy set in Brazil and Family Getaway, the story about a family that discovers its patriarch is an assassin when a rival killer shows up, turning a vacation into a cross-country car chase. Now the filmmaker has landed an animated project as he gets comfortable at Warner Bros. Heat Vision reports Staruss-Schulson will direct an adaptation of Rascal Raccoon's Raging Revenge, a graphic novel following a cartoon named Rascal Raccoon who finds himself in a worrisome predicament. With a setting and characters that will feel very familiar to Looney Tunes fans, the story takes place in an animated world called Toonie Terrace, where Meanies are always trying to torture the Merries. However, when Rascal Raccoon finally, surprisingly, succeeds in killing in longtime nemesis Jumpin' Jackalope, he's left with no purpose...
- 5/1/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: In the second significant material sale in a week that has a Die Hard theme to it, Universal Pictures acquired Speeding Bullet, a pitch by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer that went for mid-six figures. Paramount also pursued the pitch which is described as a throwback to the Die Hard-esque 90s buddy cop movie (though this sounds more Lethal Weapon-esque). KatzSmith Productions partners Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg are producing. This comes after Sony last week acquired White House Down, a spec by Amazing Spider-Man scribe James Vanderbilt that is being loglined as Die Hard in the White House. While this surge of material sales is certainly welcome–White House Down went for a 2012 spec best $3 million–I can recall that after Die Hard became a hit, studios for the next 20 years bought pitches and specs that were loglined “Die Hard in a…” Maybe some smart studio exec...
- 4/2/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Following the box office success of his first feature, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson has signed on to direct Final Girls . Variety has the word, saying that the New Line horror comedy is described as a combination between Back to the Future and Friday the 13th . In the film, from screenwriters Mark Fortin and Josh Miller (who were previously involved with Robert Rodriguez's seemingly defunct "Women in Chains!" television series), has a teenage girl and her friends sucked into the 80's slasher film that her mother starred in. Strauss-Schulson was also recently linked to the Warner Bros. comedy Family Getaway . Whether or not this project replaces that one remains to be seen but Family Getaway is likely to be able to move...
- 11/21/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Following the box office success of his first feature, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson has signed on to direct Final Girls . Variety has the word, saying that the New Line horror comedy is described as a combination between Back to the Future and Friday the 13th . In the film, from screenwriters Mark Fortin and Josh Miller (who were previously involved with Robert Rodriguez's seemingly defunct "Women in Chains!" television series), a teenage girl and her friends are sucked into the '80s slasher film that her mother starred in. Strauss-Schulson was also recently linked to the Warner Bros. comedy Family Getaway . Whether or not this project replaces that one remains to be seen but Family Getaway is likely to be able to...
- 11/21/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Concept art of what Bradley Cooper would've looked like in The Crow reboot, the first photo of Jeremy Irvine as Pip in Great Expectations, the Batwing on an NYC skyscraper rooftop on the set of The Dark Knight Rises, and the first photo from the new "Toy Story" short Small Fry.
Posters for Underworld: Awakening, Carnage, Goon, The Flowers of War, Coriolanus, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Think Like a Man, Red Tails, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Texas Killing Fields, Contraband, and four character posters for Snow White and the Huntsman.
"Activision has announced that "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" has set the record for the biggest entertainment launch of all time in any medium with 6.5 million copies sold and more than $400 million in revenue garnered from North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of release…" (The Guardian)
"Lionsgate has announced that the trailer for...
Posters for Underworld: Awakening, Carnage, Goon, The Flowers of War, Coriolanus, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Think Like a Man, Red Tails, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Texas Killing Fields, Contraband, and four character posters for Snow White and the Huntsman.
"Activision has announced that "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" has set the record for the biggest entertainment launch of all time in any medium with 6.5 million copies sold and more than $400 million in revenue garnered from North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of release…" (The Guardian)
"Lionsgate has announced that the trailer for...
- 11/13/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Things are looking pretty good for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson. Opening just last weekend, Strauss-Schulson‘s feature directorial debut managed to pull in over $16 million dollars thus far and was received rather positively by critics. According to THR, Warner Bros. hasn’t wasted much time planning his next feature project.
Strauss-Schulson is now in negotiations to direct Family Getaway, a comedy about a family who discovers their father is in fact an assassin. And when a rival killer shows up at their door, their family vacation turns into a cross-country car chase. Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer wrote the initial story and Nick Kasdan also worked on the script back when he was attached to direct.
For those familiar with the Harold & Kumar movies, you know just how ridiculous the plots can get. For his feature debut, Strauss-Schulson did a pretty good job directing all...
Strauss-Schulson is now in negotiations to direct Family Getaway, a comedy about a family who discovers their father is in fact an assassin. And when a rival killer shows up at their door, their family vacation turns into a cross-country car chase. Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer wrote the initial story and Nick Kasdan also worked on the script back when he was attached to direct.
For those familiar with the Harold & Kumar movies, you know just how ridiculous the plots can get. For his feature debut, Strauss-Schulson did a pretty good job directing all...
- 11/10/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' Todd Strauss-Schulson is in demand after the film made $13.1 million over opening weekend. THR reports that Warner Bros. is in early talks with him to direct their a new comedy called Family Getaway.
The film tells the story of "a family that discovers its patriarch is an assassin when a rival killer shows up, turning a vacation into a cross-country car chase." The initial spec was penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, and then Nick Kasdan worked on the script when he was attached to direct.
This would mark Strauss-Schulson's second film, he made his feature directorial debut with Harold & Kumar Christmas. Before that he gained attention for directing comedy shorts (Mano a Mano, Die Hardly Working and Pillow Fight were among the noteworthy) and worked on a show for MTV Asia.
I have yet to see the latest Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,...
The film tells the story of "a family that discovers its patriarch is an assassin when a rival killer shows up, turning a vacation into a cross-country car chase." The initial spec was penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, and then Nick Kasdan worked on the script when he was attached to direct.
This would mark Strauss-Schulson's second film, he made his feature directorial debut with Harold & Kumar Christmas. Before that he gained attention for directing comedy shorts (Mano a Mano, Die Hardly Working and Pillow Fight were among the noteworthy) and worked on a show for MTV Asia.
I have yet to see the latest Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,...
- 11/10/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Back in May, before his successful comedy Bad Teacher even hit the theaters, director Jake Kasdan was said to be at the helm of a new action comedy at Warner Bros., but now it seems the studio is interested in the success of a director from their sister company New Line Cinema. Heat Vision has word that A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson is in talks to direct Family Getaway, the story about a family that discovers its patriarch is an assassin when a rival killer shows up, turning a vacation into a cross-country car chase. National Lampoon's Vacation meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Sounds like fun to me. The director of this season's holiday comedy has been sending some cool behind-the-scenes stuff our way this week like this fun lipdub featuring the post-production crew and a simple video storyboard that helped plan the awesome showstopper musical sequence...
- 11/10/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson guided the marijuana-fueled sequel to a $13.1 million opening weekend, and as a reward, Warner Bros. would like to send him on a Family Getaway. The low-concept comedy reportedly follows a family on vacation who are caught up in a cross-country, high-speed chase once it.s revealed that the father in the pack is an assassin, and now he.s running from a lethal adversary. The initial treatment is credited to Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, though Nick Kasdan allegedly worked on the script back when he was attached to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Family Getaway sounds like a hybrid of the Ashton Kutcher-Katherine Heigl bomb Killers and National Lampoon.s Vacation, which already is receiving an inevitable remake. Is there any way the Vacation reboot and Getaway can just be morphed into one project? Without having seen a...
- 11/10/2011
- cinemablend.com
He just made his feature debut with A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and now The Hollywood Reporter has word that Todd Strauss-Schulson is in talks to take on another comedy for Warner Bros. with Family Getaway . The film, from writers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, made the 2012 "Black List" of unproduced screenplays. It's logline at that time read, "A man whose family doesn't know he's an assassin must protect them during a cross-country car chase when rival killers show up." ComingSoon.net recently spoke with Strauss-Schulson at the junket for Harold & Kumar and you can check out our video interview (along with the film's cast) by clicking here . (Photo Credit: Apega / WENN.com)...
- 11/10/2011
- Comingsoon.net
With Cameron Diaz comedy Bad Teacher having hauled in almost $215 million worldwide (not bad on a $30 million budget) Sony is naturally eager to stay in business with the people who made it, namely director Jake Kasdan and writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (yes, even though the last two wrote Year One). While the trio isn’t working on a sequel to the film right now, they have come up with another, untitled comedy concept.The new film revolves around a manager at Us hairdressing chain Supercuts advising his best friend to break off his engagement. But to make matters worse, he then falls in love with the man’s jilted fiancée, putting both his new romance and his longstanding friendship at risk…At this early stage, there’s no word on any casting for the film, nor is there a schedule for the shoot. Kasdan also has Family Getaway...
- 10/20/2011
- EmpireOnline
“Little Miss Sunshine” meets Jason Bourne? That’s apparently the pitch for Jake Kasdan’s new film, “Family Getaway”. Based on a script by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, “Family Getaway” is “a dysfunctional-family tale about a clan that has to go on the run after its Thanksgiving dinner is crashed by assassins”. The title makes it sound like a silly comedy, so I’m guessing this is something like an action-comedy where the dad is a former CIA badass or something along those lines, whose past comes back to bite him in the buttocks. If they Really want to make it unique, they should make the kids former CIA badasses and the parents clueless morons. I mean, that would be unique, if a tad, well, unbelievable. Anyways, Kasdan has set up “Family Getaway” as his next movie after the raunchy comedy “Bad Teacher”, which stars Cameron Diaz as a...
- 5/6/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
His most recent comedy Bad Teacher won't hit theaters until June 24th this summer, but director Jake Kasdan is already lining up his next gig. 24 Frames reports the filmmaker who also brought us Orange County and the underrated Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story will next direct a comedy called Family Getaway that's being pitched as Little Miss Sunshine meets Jason Bourne. Apparently the story follows a dysfunctional-family that forced to go on the run after its Thanksgiving dinner is crashed by assassins. Jeremiah Friedman & Nick Palmer (writers behind The Bodyguard remake) scripted the original story. In a weird connection, Jake's father Lawrence Kasdan, who has written classic films like The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, not to mention directing The Big Chill, wrote the original The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. But I digress. The premise sounds a little silly, but ...
- 5/6/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
New screenwriting team Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer wrote a beloved, Black List-approved screenplay called Family Getaway, and for their troubles were rewarded with the job writing a remake of The Bodyguard. I'm sure they were thrilled by it, being young screenwriters in need of work and all, but I'll admit, we made some fun of the idea over here. But whether it's fate course-correcting or a good idea being unable to stay hidden for long, Family Getaway is now finally getting its due as well; according to The La Times Bad Teacher director Jake Kasdan is considering making it his next film. The script is set up at Warner Bros., and even though the studio wouldn't comment to the Times, the paper seems pretty certain he'll make it his next effort now that Bad Teacher is set to come out on June 24. The plot of Family Getaway is a...
- 5/5/2011
- cinemablend.com
New stills for Super 8 and the first look at Salma Hayek's Kitty Softpaws character in Puss in Boots.
Set photos from Men in Black III, We Bought a Zoo, and Andrew Garfield doing his own stunt work for some New York shooting of The Amazing Spider-Man.
Posters for Attack the Block, X-Men: First Class, Anonymous, and early promo artwork for the currently in development Cobra: The Space Pirate and Rian Johnson's just shot Looper.
"'Cry Macho' is now confirmed as Arnold Schwarzenegger's first post-Governor feature film effort. Shooting on the kidnap thriller kicks off in September…" (full details)
"Italian director/actor Roberto Benigni ("Life is Beautiful") has joined the ensemble cast of Woody Allen's upcoming Italy-set next project…" (full details)
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt confirms that he won’t reprise his role as Cobra Commander in the "G.I. Joe" sequel…" (full details)
"Sadly, Michael Sheen has...
Set photos from Men in Black III, We Bought a Zoo, and Andrew Garfield doing his own stunt work for some New York shooting of The Amazing Spider-Man.
Posters for Attack the Block, X-Men: First Class, Anonymous, and early promo artwork for the currently in development Cobra: The Space Pirate and Rian Johnson's just shot Looper.
"'Cry Macho' is now confirmed as Arnold Schwarzenegger's first post-Governor feature film effort. Shooting on the kidnap thriller kicks off in September…" (full details)
"Italian director/actor Roberto Benigni ("Life is Beautiful") has joined the ensemble cast of Woody Allen's upcoming Italy-set next project…" (full details)
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt confirms that he won’t reprise his role as Cobra Commander in the "G.I. Joe" sequel…" (full details)
"Sadly, Michael Sheen has...
- 5/5/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With Bad Teacher coming out next month, Jake Kasdan is getting ready for his follow-up project. 24Frames says that the Walk Hard and Orange County director will next helm Family Getaway, which was scripted by the Bodyguard remake writers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, and also ended up on the 2010 Black List.
It’s been described as being a “dysfunctional-family tale about a clan that has to go on the run after its Thanksgiving dinner is crashed by assassins,” with the pitch line being Little Miss Sunshine meets Jason Bourne.
Additionally, the Black List description adds that the father is an assassin (which his family doesn’t know), and that it’s rival killers going after them. Warner Bros. is distributing the film, but no start time for production has been specified.
His next feature, Bad Teacher, stars Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel. See the red band trailer here,...
It’s been described as being a “dysfunctional-family tale about a clan that has to go on the run after its Thanksgiving dinner is crashed by assassins,” with the pitch line being Little Miss Sunshine meets Jason Bourne.
Additionally, the Black List description adds that the father is an assassin (which his family doesn’t know), and that it’s rival killers going after them. Warner Bros. is distributing the film, but no start time for production has been specified.
His next feature, Bad Teacher, stars Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel. See the red band trailer here,...
- 5/5/2011
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
According to CinemaBlend by way of Deadline, a remake of the 1992 film “The Bodyguard” is in the works. According to Deadine, screenwriters Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who wrote the unproduced blacklist script “Family Getaway”, will write the new “Bodyguard” script for Warner Brothers. If you recall, the original film starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, the plot revolving around a slightly spoiled singer (Houston) who retains the services of an ex-Secret Service member as her bodyguard. Through the film, which is a big vehicle for Houston’s mega-watt voice, the two characters learn about what it means to truly be in love. The film also followed a “revolutionary” train of thought that [...]...
- 2/25/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
Well we've been hearing rumours about this for the past couple of years, but sadly it has always turned out to be a fabrication. This time, however, it appears to be the real deal. Warner Brothers is in the process of putting together a remake of their 1992 film The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner as a secret service agent who is hired to protect a pop star from a potential stalker. As fate would have it, the two end up falling in love (the bodyguard and the pop star, not the stalker and the pop star). Whitney Houston played the singer in the original, and I for one cannot wait to find out which hot young star they pick for the remake. The new script is being written by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who had an action comedy on last year's Black List called Family Getaway. They are going to...
- 2/24/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Warner Brothers announced their plans to remake the 1992 Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston film "The Bodyguard" and are reteaming with the writers of the Black List approved script, "Family Getaway," which they bought last fall. Deadline broke the news that writers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer have been tapped to reboot the love story of the bodyguard and the diva, this time updating the material to reflect the distinctly 2000s brand of celebrity fandom and technology (TMZ, Twitter), and including Iraq combat experience for the bodyguard. Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote a number of '80s classics ("The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of…...
- 2/24/2011
- The Playlist
Deadline Hollywood reports that Warner Bros. is planning to the remake Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard. The original film told the story of a Secret Service Agent (Kevin Costner) who fell love with a famous Diva (Whitney Houston) while protecting her from a stalker. This new film will also feature a love story with another famous singer looking to star, and the male to lead to be a soldier from Iraq. The story will also be updated that shows how Twitter, and the Internet have made it easier to stalk celebrities.
This new version will be penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer (Family Getaway).
This new version will be penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer (Family Getaway).
- 2/24/2011
- by Matt Keith
- Killer Films
Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros is remaking "The Bodyguard," the 1992 hit that starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The original film grossed over $410 million. The studio has already hired Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer to write the script. Their action comedy "Family Getaway" made the 2010 Black List and is also being developed by Warners. "The Bodyguard" revolves around a Secret Service agent working to protect a singing diva whose life has been threatened by a stalker. The new version will still include the love story that follows, but will make the bodyguard a former Iraq war veteran who gets the job protecting the star as his first gig after leaving the Army. He discovers that the world of Twitter, Google Maps and TMZ has made access to celebrities easier than ever, making the job more difficult than ever. The goal is to find a young female singer with global appeal.
- 2/24/2011
- WorstPreviews.com
Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer ("Family Getaway") have been hired to write the script for a remake of the 1992 hit "The Bodyguard" at Warner Bros. Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter.
Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston starred in the original story of a former Secret Service agent hired to protect a world famous pop singer. Uncomfortable in her glitzy world, the man eventually falls for her which compromises his ability to protect her. The film spawned Houston's most famous power ballad "I Will Always Love You".
Lawrence Kasdan ("Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Big Chill") penned the original screenplay years before the film went into production, in fact it was meant as a vehicle for Steve McQueen and Diana Ross.
The new version will have the titular male lead as a former Iraqi war vet. Dan Lin will produce the new version.
Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston starred in the original story of a former Secret Service agent hired to protect a world famous pop singer. Uncomfortable in her glitzy world, the man eventually falls for her which compromises his ability to protect her. The film spawned Houston's most famous power ballad "I Will Always Love You".
Lawrence Kasdan ("Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Big Chill") penned the original screenplay years before the film went into production, in fact it was meant as a vehicle for Steve McQueen and Diana Ross.
The new version will have the titular male lead as a former Iraqi war vet. Dan Lin will produce the new version.
- 2/24/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There have been rumblings about a potential remake of the 1992 smash hit The Bodyguard for some time but now Warner Bros. has made it official according to Deadline. Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer (whose script Family Getaway made the 2010 Black List) are currently reworking the script based on Lawrence Kasdan‘s screenplay. The duo will update the story the new millennium in which an Iraq vet (a retired Secret Service member in the 1992 original) must protect a world famous singer from a stalker in a world in which the lives of stars are more accessible through technology and social media.
The original film, which set the box office ablaze, broke billboard records with it’s soundtrack and broke down interracial love barriers spent nearly 20 years in limbo before Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner brought it to life. (fun fact: Diana Ross and Steve McQueen were originally intended to star in...
The original film, which set the box office ablaze, broke billboard records with it’s soundtrack and broke down interracial love barriers spent nearly 20 years in limbo before Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner brought it to life. (fun fact: Diana Ross and Steve McQueen were originally intended to star in...
- 2/24/2011
- by John Luchetti
- The Film Stage
In a town where everything somewhat old is being renewed again, remakes of the 1991 comedy Soapdish and the 1992 drama The Bodyguard are headed to the recycling plant.
According to Deadline, Warner Bros is rebooting the hit — which made the studio $411 million worldwide that year (7th largest domestic gross in 1992) — as a potential starring vehicle for another pop singer turned actress. The original, about a bodyguard who protects a popular singer, was the acting debut of Whitney Houston in the early ’90s, though the singer only eventually made two other features (Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife) and a television rendition of Cinderella. The new version will reportedly maintain the concept while updating the titular character to an Iraq War veteran protecting his client in an age of Twitter, Facebook, TMZ, and the like.
No singer is attached at this point, but you’d have to expect emerging actresses...
According to Deadline, Warner Bros is rebooting the hit — which made the studio $411 million worldwide that year (7th largest domestic gross in 1992) — as a potential starring vehicle for another pop singer turned actress. The original, about a bodyguard who protects a popular singer, was the acting debut of Whitney Houston in the early ’90s, though the singer only eventually made two other features (Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife) and a television rendition of Cinderella. The new version will reportedly maintain the concept while updating the titular character to an Iraq War veteran protecting his client in an age of Twitter, Facebook, TMZ, and the like.
No singer is attached at this point, but you’d have to expect emerging actresses...
- 2/24/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
In the second piece of Kevin Costner-related news [1] this week, Warner Brothers has decided to remake their 1992 film The Bodyguard. They've hired screenwriters Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who wrote the 2010 Black List [2] film Family Getaway, to update the original story of a Secret Service agent turned bodyguard who falls in love with his client, a popular singer. In the new film, the bodyguard will be an Iraqi war vet who has to deal with the ability of social media and celebrity journalism to make the life of a celebrity more public than ever. The female role, which was played by Whitney Houston in the original, is being eyed as a starring vehicle for a "young female singer with global appeal." Read more after the break. Deadline initially broke [3] the news of the Bodyguard remake. The original film, written by Laurence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Big Chill...
- 2/24/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Warner Bros. is set to remake the 1992 Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston romantic drama "The Bodyguard," individuals close to the project confirmed to TheWrap. According to one individual, Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer have signed on to write the script. "It is still in the very early stages," the individual cautioned. Friedman and Palmer's "Family Getaway" script made the 2010 Black List and is now being produced by Mosiac for Warner Bros. As for the original, it was written by Lawrence Kasdan, directed by Mick Jackson and starred Costner as a Secret Service agent...
- 2/24/2011
- The Wrap
Sometimes, it’s really hard to have faith in major Hollywood studios.
Today is one of those times.
Deadline is reporting that WB is set to remake the 1992 hit, The Bodyguard. The original famously paired Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, and ultimately became one of the studio’s biggest hits, grossing $411 million worldwide. The film will be penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, whose script for Family Getaway landed on the 2010 Black List, and this will have Dan Lin producing.
Read more on WB remaking The Bodyguard…...
Today is one of those times.
Deadline is reporting that WB is set to remake the 1992 hit, The Bodyguard. The original famously paired Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, and ultimately became one of the studio’s biggest hits, grossing $411 million worldwide. The film will be penned by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, whose script for Family Getaway landed on the 2010 Black List, and this will have Dan Lin producing.
Read more on WB remaking The Bodyguard…...
- 2/24/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
I had no idea that anyone remembered The Bodyguard for anything other than its soundtrack. Yet, even though the music seemed to get a lot more attention than the movie when it was released in 1992, apparently the film was a huge, global hit for Warner Bros. It made nearly half a billion. So of course they.re remaking it. The original movie starred Kevin Costner as the bodyguard of Whitney Houston.s music superstar character, while following her life and career. As a plot, it really wasn.t all that noteworthy. These days it.s more of a punchline. Which makes you wonder why the hell Warner Bros. is remaking it. Is The Bodyguard really a franchise? Will name recognition really sell more tickets of they do it again? Somehow I doubt it. Deadline says Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, who wrote an unproduced blacklist script called Family Getaway, will...
- 2/24/2011
- cinemablend.com
So for some reason Warner Bros. has decided to remake the 1992 film The Bodyguard... I don't get it. It's not April fools day is it? The original film starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, and told the story of a secret service agent drafted to protect a singing diva whose life has been threatened by a stalker, then falling for her in a way he fears is a distraction from his job. Despite being a crappy movie made $411 million dollars.
Deadline reports that "the new version is similar, including the love story, but here the bodyguard will be a former Iraq war veteran who gets the job protecting the star as his first gig after leaving the Army. He discovers that the world of Twitter, Google Maps and TMZ has made access to celebrities easier than ever, making the job more difficult than ever. The goal is to take a...
Deadline reports that "the new version is similar, including the love story, but here the bodyguard will be a former Iraq war veteran who gets the job protecting the star as his first gig after leaving the Army. He discovers that the world of Twitter, Google Maps and TMZ has made access to celebrities easier than ever, making the job more difficult than ever. The goal is to take a...
- 2/23/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: Warner Bros is rebooting its 1992 hit The Bodyguard, the film that paired Kevin Costner with Whitney Houston and became for its time one of the biggest global hits in studio history with a $411 million worldwide gross. The film will be scripted by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, whose action comedy script Family Getaway made the 2010 Black List and is a priority project at Warner Bros. Dan Lin will produce through his Lin Pictures banner, and Mark Bauch is co-producer. Scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Mick Jackson, the original was a fairly straight ahead tale of a Secret Service agent (Costner in a Steve McQueen homage, down to his hairstyle) drafted to protect a singing diva whose life has been threatened by a stalker, then falling for her in a way he fears is a distraction from his job. The new version is similar, including the love story,...
- 2/23/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The 1992 film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, which received very mixed reception upon it's release, is getting re-imagined by Family Getaway screenwriters Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer. The Bodyguard was originally proposed for Steve McQueen and Diana Ross in the headlining roles, but after more than a decade of turmoil was made with Costner and Houston. The film follows Rachel Marron (Houston) is an Oscar-nominated music superstar who is being stalked and sent death threats. Frank Farmer (Costner), a former Secret Service agent during Ronald Reagan's presidency-turned professional bodyguard, is hired to protect her. Inevitably, a romance ensues which causes more trouble for the duo. Houston's soundtrack for the film, which included the songs "I Will Always Love You" and...
- 2/23/2011
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Days before The Black List reveals their most liked unproduced screenplays of 2010, The Tracking Board have released their very own version of a best of list, with a different kind of science and mandate: focus on spec scripts (update: Ttb describes it best: a spec essentially means that "no one has paid you to write it beforehand, therefore most often a writer is writing that particular script fueled by passion and a dream, with no promise for payday at the end of the day"). The Hot List process is best described here - but to give you a gist in their owns words: The Spec Market is essentially Hollywood’s roulette table. For some scripts, it is a place where they will rise to the golden gates of Bidding Wars, A-List Attachments, and Seven Figure Deals, but for others, they will disappear off into the lonely fields of Sampleville, sending...
- 12/10/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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