Into the Woods: Heading to theaters on December 25, Into the Woods is an ambitious stage-to-screen adaptation featuring a plethora of familiar storybook characters. New photos from the musical showcase Johnny Depp (as a wolf), Anna Kendrick (as Cinderella), Emily Blunt (as the Baker's Wife), and Meryl Streep (as a witch), all looking quite colorful. [EW.com] I.Q. 83: Charlie Kaufman, known for offbeat movies (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), will next tackle a rewrite of I.Q. 83, based on a 1978 novel by Arthur Herzog. Steve Carell is set to star as the leader of a group of scientists who inadvertently unleash a virus that steadily lowers the intelligence of its victims. Kaufman is planning a satirical version of the straightforward novel...
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- 10/23/2014
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
The longtime attempt at making a movie out of Arthur Herzog‘s “Iq 83” is finally seeing some real progress at Paramount, where Charlie Kaufman has been tapped for a full rewrite and Steve Carell has been cast in the lead. The premise of the sci-fi novel is rather simple: an outbreak of a virus that doesn’t wipe out the population, just lowers its Iq substantially. Firstly, this plot seems quite relevant to anyone frustrated with the idiocy of fear going around concerning Ebola when only one person in the Us has died from the disease and only two others diagnosed as having contracted it here. Secondly, it just seems quite familiar to anyone who has enjoyed science fiction set in the future. It didn’t take very long for someone to comment on Deadline’s news posting with the obvious comparison that it sounds like Idiocracy. As far as the parallel that both Iq 83 and...
- 10/23/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Producer Andrew Lazar has been looking to adapt I.Q. 83 by Arthur Herzog for around twenty years, with no screenwriter able to crack the science-fiction novel. Well, Dreamworks may have found their answer in the mad genius Charlie Kaufman. The Adaptation. and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind screenwriter has been hired to do a page one rewrite on the project, which is set to star Steve Carell. Carell will play Dr. James Healey, who led a group of scientists in DNA experiments and released an airborne virus. The people afflicted by the virus gradually lose I.Q. points, becoming lower and lower forms of themselves. Dr. Healey and the scientists must rush to find a cure, even though they too are being affected by the virus. In a world where we already have the film Idiocracy, this might seem like familiar territory, even though the novel has been around since 1978. However,...
- 10/23/2014
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
A Steve Carell-Charlie Kaufman collaboration is in the works, EW confirmed with a representative for Kaufman. Deadline first reported that Kaufman has been tapped to rewrite a long-gestating adaptation of Arthur Herzog's Iq 83, a novel about a virus that makes people less intelligent, with Carell starring. According to Deadline, "the aim of this new version is to do a scathing satire, on the order of Doctor Strangelove." Carell is currently on the receiving end of Oscar buzz for his role in Foxcatcher. Kaufman most recently wrote and directed 2008's Synecdoche, New York, and in 2012 turned to...
- 10/23/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside Movies
After starring in dumb comedies like Dinner for Schmucks, Evan Almighty and most recently Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Very Long Title, it sounds like Steve Carell has the potential to star in a smart comedy about getting dumber. Deadline reports Paramount Pictures has hired Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to do a page one rewrite of I.Q. 83, an adaptation of the 1978 sci-fi novel of the same name by Arthur Herzog, being developed for Steve Carell to lead. While the sci-fi was written as a serious story, the film adaptation will be a satire like Dr. Strangelove. The story would follow Carell as Dr. James Healey, a man who led a group of scientists to conduct a DNA experiment by unleashing an airborne virus that progressively lowers the Iq of those who have contracted it (you know, like reality television). Suddenly...
- 10/23/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Viral outbreaks are not new fodder for Hollywood. Zombie movies and dystopian films often feature some kind of virus running rampant among the populace, leaving it up to our heroes to try and stem the tide…or, more often than not, fail to do anything about it. But the upcoming film I.Q. 83 takes the “virus run amok” trope and gives it a new, interesting spin: what if the virus actually began slowly lowering everyone’s Iq, including the people working to find a cure?
Steve Carell has just signed on to appear in I.Q. 83 as a scientist attempting to find a cure for a virus that slowly but surely lowers the population’s IQs. He’s in a race against the spread of the disease, for with every day that passes his own mental abilities are reduced and with them his chances of finding the cure. As he watches his wife,...
Steve Carell has just signed on to appear in I.Q. 83 as a scientist attempting to find a cure for a virus that slowly but surely lowers the population’s IQs. He’s in a race against the spread of the disease, for with every day that passes his own mental abilities are reduced and with them his chances of finding the cure. As he watches his wife,...
- 10/23/2014
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Steve Carell and Charlie Kaufman are working on an adaptation of Iq 83.
Paramount Pictures has hired Kaufman for a rewrite of the screenplay based on Arthur Herzog's classic science fiction novel, reports Deadline.
Carell will play Dr James Healey, the head of a group of scientists whose experimental virus is accidentally unleashed on the population.
Those infected find their IQs progressively dropping, leading to a race against time to find a cure before the scientists no longer have the mental capacity to do so.
Herzog - a political speechwriter in the 1960s - published the book in 1978.
A director is yet to be secured for the project.
Kaufman's previous sci-fi outings include Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Producer Andrew Lazar has been attempting to get an adaptation of Iq 83 off the ground for 20 years.
Paramount Pictures has hired Kaufman for a rewrite of the screenplay based on Arthur Herzog's classic science fiction novel, reports Deadline.
Carell will play Dr James Healey, the head of a group of scientists whose experimental virus is accidentally unleashed on the population.
Those infected find their IQs progressively dropping, leading to a race against time to find a cure before the scientists no longer have the mental capacity to do so.
Herzog - a political speechwriter in the 1960s - published the book in 1978.
A director is yet to be secured for the project.
Kaufman's previous sci-fi outings include Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Producer Andrew Lazar has been attempting to get an adaptation of Iq 83 off the ground for 20 years.
- 10/23/2014
- Digital Spy
Deadline reports that Steve Carell is in talks to star in the long-gestating film adaptation of Arthur Herzog’s 1978 science-fiction novel I.Q. 83, with Charlie Kaufman rewriting the script. The book chronicles the outbreak of an airborne virus that causes the I.Q. level to gradually decrease in the afflicted. While the novel was written as serious sci-fi, the film is being envisioned as a satire in the vein of Dr. Strangelove. So ideally we're looking at an Eternal Sunshine–esque Kaufman head trip with Brick Tamland as protagonist? Great.
- 10/23/2014
- by Anna Silman
- Vulture
Michel Gondry and Vincenzo Natali have struggled to adapt, respectively, Ubik and Neuromancer in recent years, and now another cult sci-fi classic looks likely to beat both to the screen. Steve Carell is starring in Iq 83, based on the 1978 novel by Arthur Herzog (the political speech writer who also wrote The Swarm and Orca). Charlie Kaufman has signed on to write the screenplay.Iq 83 centres on Dr. James Healey (Carell's role), leader of a group of scientists involved in DNA research and accidentally responsible for unleashing a pandemic that reduces people's intelligence. Healey has to rush to contain the outbreak and find a cure, as the masses devolve into packs of fools. But he's quickly ceasing to be the intellectual he recently was, having been afflicted himself.Carell's presence perhaps suggests a broadly comedic take on Healey's serious novel, but the intention for the film is more along...
- 10/23/2014
- EmpireOnline
Charlie Kaufman has signed to do a page one rewrite of the film adaptation of Arthur Herzog's classic 1978 science fiction novel "I.Q. 83" at Paramount Pictures.
The project is being developed as a star vehicle for Steve Carell who would play Dr. James Healey, the leader of a group of scientists that conducted DNA experiments that unleashed an airborne virus that ravages the populous.
The affliction progressively lowers the Iq of the afflicted, and a race against time begins as scientists struggle for a cure, even as they rapidly grow dumber.
Though written as serious science fiction, the film adaptation plans a "Doctor Strangelove"-style scathing satire. Andrew Lazar and Walter Parkes are producing the project which won't set a director until Kaufman's done the script.
Kaufman is just the latest to attempt the script, the project has been in development for almost two decades with several scribes having...
The project is being developed as a star vehicle for Steve Carell who would play Dr. James Healey, the leader of a group of scientists that conducted DNA experiments that unleashed an airborne virus that ravages the populous.
The affliction progressively lowers the Iq of the afflicted, and a race against time begins as scientists struggle for a cure, even as they rapidly grow dumber.
Though written as serious science fiction, the film adaptation plans a "Doctor Strangelove"-style scathing satire. Andrew Lazar and Walter Parkes are producing the project which won't set a director until Kaufman's done the script.
Kaufman is just the latest to attempt the script, the project has been in development for almost two decades with several scribes having...
- 10/23/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
One of the great, unrealized film projects of the past few years (and one we hope but very much doubt will ever get made) is Charlie Kaufman's ambitious, Hollywood skewering comedy/musical "Frank Or Francis." One of the proposed stars of that project is teaming with Kaufman on another upcoming film. Deadline reports that Steve Carell will star in "I.Q. 83," which will receive a page one rewrite from Kaufman, and for now, there's no word if he'll also direct or not. It's a sci-fi movie with a premise that's right up Kaufman's alley, following a viral outbreak that renders those afflicted with a rapidly decreasing I.Q., including the scientist tasked with finding a cure. It's based on the book by Arthur Herzog, and here's the synopsis from Amazon: That was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happen… Since then you have felt...
- 10/22/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Steve Carell has been attached for awhile to headline an adaptation of Arthur Herzog's 1978 science fiction novel, Iq 83. Today, however, the big screen take on the high concept tale is officially getting a rewrite from none other than Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter behind films like Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York. Deadline has the news, reporting that Kaufman will be doing a page one rewrite.
- 10/22/2014
- Comingsoon.net
It looks like Charlie Kaufman and Steve Carell have managed a way to work together after all. You may recall Carell was set to star in the musical Frank Or Francis, but that movie was shelved due to lack of financing. Now Paramount has hired Kaufman to rewrite an adaptation of Arthur Herzog’s science-fiction novel “Iq 83” for Carell to star. He will play Dr. James Healey, who leads a group of scientists that conducted DNA experiments which subsequently unleashed...
- 10/22/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- JoBlo.com
Timur Bekmambetov's upcoming horror flick Squirrels has already been dubbed the new Sharknado across social media following the recent release of its trailer.
A new poster has followed today (August 22), featuring a squirrel nibbling on a severed human finger along with the tagline: "Hold onto your nuts".
We know we can't wait to see it, so in anticipation we look back at 12 other films where good animals go bad (or just where very bad ones attack). From bloodthirsty squirrels to giant, mutant rabbits - take a look at your peril below.
The Birds (1963)
Strange seagulls and other creepy winged creatures turn on a beautiful socialite (Tippi Hedren) in a small Northern California town in Alfred Hitchcock's atmospheric thriller, based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier.
Killer Bees! (2010)
Latin American killer bees descend upon a small rural Washington town, and it's up to Sheriff Lyndon Harris (C Thomas Howell...
A new poster has followed today (August 22), featuring a squirrel nibbling on a severed human finger along with the tagline: "Hold onto your nuts".
We know we can't wait to see it, so in anticipation we look back at 12 other films where good animals go bad (or just where very bad ones attack). From bloodthirsty squirrels to giant, mutant rabbits - take a look at your peril below.
The Birds (1963)
Strange seagulls and other creepy winged creatures turn on a beautiful socialite (Tippi Hedren) in a small Northern California town in Alfred Hitchcock's atmospheric thriller, based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier.
Killer Bees! (2010)
Latin American killer bees descend upon a small rural Washington town, and it's up to Sheriff Lyndon Harris (C Thomas Howell...
- 8/22/2013
- Digital Spy
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