Exclusive: Alan Taylor is swapping 1970s New Jersey for 1980s California for his next project.
The director, whose The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark is set for a September release, is to helm a TV adaptation of fantasy novel Stone Junction.
Taylor knows the fantasy world well, having directed numerous episodes of Game of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World.
The adaptation is being produced by Peter Luo’s Starlight Media, which backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, and written by The Man in the High Castle and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams writers Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell. Taylor, Luo, and Brandan Dennehy will produce.
Based on Jim Dodge’s book, Stone Junction is set in a mythologized early 80s California, and depicts the fantastical childhood and adolescence of Daniel Pearse and culminates with his battle for life against oblivion. Like Tom Sawyer taking the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,...
The director, whose The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark is set for a September release, is to helm a TV adaptation of fantasy novel Stone Junction.
Taylor knows the fantasy world well, having directed numerous episodes of Game of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World.
The adaptation is being produced by Peter Luo’s Starlight Media, which backed Crazy Rich Asians and Midway, and written by The Man in the High Castle and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams writers Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell. Taylor, Luo, and Brandan Dennehy will produce.
Based on Jim Dodge’s book, Stone Junction is set in a mythologized early 80s California, and depicts the fantastical childhood and adolescence of Daniel Pearse and culminates with his battle for life against oblivion. Like Tom Sawyer taking the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Prolific film and television director Alan Taylor has signed on to helm Gold Mountain, a period adventure film set in 1850s San Francisco during the booming, violent times of the Gold Rush.
Planned as a U.S.-China co-production, the film tells the story of a canny widow and the girl she transports from China, who together overcome innate distrust to form a bond while running a marriage con on unsuspecting men.
Michelle Yeoh is in talks to star and produce, alongside Taylor, Jane Wu and Brandan Dennehy. Taylor first mentioned the project publicly during a panel discussion held at the ...
Planned as a U.S.-China co-production, the film tells the story of a canny widow and the girl she transports from China, who together overcome innate distrust to form a bond while running a marriage con on unsuspecting men.
Michelle Yeoh is in talks to star and produce, alongside Taylor, Jane Wu and Brandan Dennehy. Taylor first mentioned the project publicly during a panel discussion held at the ...
- 6/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Prolific film and television director Alan Taylor has signed on to helm Gold Mountain, a period adventure film set in 1850s San Francisco during the booming, violent times of the Gold Rush.
Planned as a U.S.-China co-production, the film tells the story of a canny widow and the girl she transports from China, who together overcome innate distrust to form a bond while running a marriage con on unsuspecting men.
Michelle Yeoh is in talks to star and produce, alongside Taylor, Jane Wu and Brandan Dennehy. Taylor first mentioned the project publicly during a panel discussion held at the ...
Planned as a U.S.-China co-production, the film tells the story of a canny widow and the girl she transports from China, who together overcome innate distrust to form a bond while running a marriage con on unsuspecting men.
Michelle Yeoh is in talks to star and produce, alongside Taylor, Jane Wu and Brandan Dennehy. Taylor first mentioned the project publicly during a panel discussion held at the ...
- 6/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Futurism Studios, the film and TV arm of online tech and science forum Futurism, is joining its first narrative feature in the shape of Oz sci-fi 2067, starring X-Men’s Kodi Smit-McPhee and True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten.
Futurism’s Jason Taylor, previously president of production at Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry Productions, will join the project as a producer alongside Arcadia and Kojo Entertainment.
Sci-fi thriller 2067, directed by Seth Larney (Tombiruo), is now in post and is due to have a 10,000+ screen release in China with Jl Vision Films alongside international roll out in 2020. Kew Media is handling all territory sales outside China and Australia and Nz where Umbrella will distribute.
In Larney’s sci-fi mystery thriller, set in a deforested and oxygen-deprived world reeling from climate change, Smit-McPhee plays Ethan Whyte, a narcissistic underground tunnel worker who embarks on a journey through time that tests his faith in himself and in humanity.
Futurism’s Jason Taylor, previously president of production at Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry Productions, will join the project as a producer alongside Arcadia and Kojo Entertainment.
Sci-fi thriller 2067, directed by Seth Larney (Tombiruo), is now in post and is due to have a 10,000+ screen release in China with Jl Vision Films alongside international roll out in 2020. Kew Media is handling all territory sales outside China and Australia and Nz where Umbrella will distribute.
In Larney’s sci-fi mystery thriller, set in a deforested and oxygen-deprived world reeling from climate change, Smit-McPhee plays Ethan Whyte, a narcissistic underground tunnel worker who embarks on a journey through time that tests his faith in himself and in humanity.
- 5/9/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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