Warner Bros. and Hollywood Gang Prods. have set "Shoot 'Em Up" director Michael Davis to direct "Outland," a remake of the 1981 Peter Hyams sci-fi film which starred Sean Connery and Peter Boyle. According to Variety, Chad St. John, who scripted the WB drama "The Days Before," will write the remake.The drama revolves around a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on Jupiter's moon Io, where he uncovers a murderous conspiracy threatening the entire Outland with collapse. Hollywood Gang's Gianni Nunnari is producing; Craig J. Flores executive produces.
- 8/19/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Clive Owen is loading his guns for Shoot 'Em Up, a hard-core action project from screenwriter-director Michael Davis. Don Murphy, Susan Montford and Rick Benattar are producing. The story begins with a woman having a baby during a shootout. The man who delivers the baby, called simply Mr. Smith, is entrusted with protecting it from an army of gunmen. A January start date is being eyed.
- 6/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Line Cinema is picking up Shoot 'Em Up, a hard-core action project from writer-director Michael Davis, with Don Murphy, Susan Montford and Rick Benattar producing through Angry Films. Davis comes from the low-budget, indie comedy world -- Slamdance audience award winner Eight Days a Week and 100 Girls are among his credits -- and has done storyboards for such fare as Pee-wee's Playhouse and Tremors. After writing Shoot, Davis drew on his storyboard skills to illustrate about 17,000 individual drawings that he then animated to show how he would direct the movie's action. The animatic trailer so impressed New Line that it is not only buying the project but also signing Davis to a two-picture option.
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