Last summer, Van Robichaux ran for the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America West. Out of 17 candidates, he was the only one who raised a concern about artificial intelligence in his campaign statement.
“As far as I know, this issue is not on the radar of anyone else running for the board and while I might sound like a paranoid lunatic talking about it today, in 10 years I’m confident you’ll be glad I brought it up now,” he wrote.
He did not win.
AI has since become the hottest topic in the creative economy, spurred by the release of models like Stable Diffusion last August and ChatGPT in November. Across disciplines – graphic design, animation, acting, music, writing – artists are terrified of being replaced by robots.
“I think they’re right to be concerned,” said Bruce Schneier, a lecturer in cybersecurity at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
“As far as I know, this issue is not on the radar of anyone else running for the board and while I might sound like a paranoid lunatic talking about it today, in 10 years I’m confident you’ll be glad I brought it up now,” he wrote.
He did not win.
AI has since become the hottest topic in the creative economy, spurred by the release of models like Stable Diffusion last August and ChatGPT in November. Across disciplines – graphic design, animation, acting, music, writing – artists are terrified of being replaced by robots.
“I think they’re right to be concerned,” said Bruce Schneier, a lecturer in cybersecurity at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
- 5/23/2023
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
The WGA is gearing up for upcoming contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, arguably its most important in over a decade.
This has prompted a group of top writers to look back at the lessons learned from the 2007-08 writers’ strike to see what can be applied to this year’s talks.
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Angela Workman, writer of The Zookeeper’s Wife, Chap Taylor, consulting producer on The Blacklist, Holly Sorensen, creator of the Step Up TV series, Flint Wainess, consulting producer of The CW’s In The Dark,...
This has prompted a group of top writers to look back at the lessons learned from the 2007-08 writers’ strike to see what can be applied to this year’s talks.
Related Story Historically, The WGA Is Overdue For A Strike, With Residuals Again A Key Issue Of Upcoming Talks Related Story WGA Urges Members To Disregard "Misleading" Rumors & Strike Predictions Related Story WGA Awards TV Nominations: 'Abbott Elementary,' 'Better Call Saul,' 'The Crown,' 'Severance', 'Yellowjackets' Among Shows Vying For Top Prizes
Angela Workman, writer of The Zookeeper’s Wife, Chap Taylor, consulting producer on The Blacklist, Holly Sorensen, creator of the Step Up TV series, Flint Wainess, consulting producer of The CW’s In The Dark,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has set Chap Taylor to script a drama inspired by the 1962 John Ford-directed Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which starred John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin. In the original, Stewart played an idealistic lawyer who tries to bring the rule of law to a lawless frontier town. Marvin played Valance, an outlaw headed for a showdown after the lawyer stands up to him. Wayne played a gunslinger who tries to teach the lawyer to defend himself.
The version that Taylor is writing follows the essentials of that story but is set in New York City in 1991, at the height of the crack cocaine scourge when the murder rate in the city soared to unprecedented levels. A young college-educated black policeman volunteers to be stationed in Harlem to make things safer. He’s teamed with a veteran Irish-American cop who, Taylor said, “has...
The version that Taylor is writing follows the essentials of that story but is set in New York City in 1991, at the height of the crack cocaine scourge when the murder rate in the city soared to unprecedented levels. A young college-educated black policeman volunteers to be stationed in Harlem to make things safer. He’s teamed with a veteran Irish-American cop who, Taylor said, “has...
- 3/28/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Vikings star Travis Fimmel is set to star in Raised By Wolves, Scott Free Productions’ straight-to-series sci-fi drama for TNT, which will mark Ridley Scott’s TV helming debut. The first series ordered for the Ridley Scott-curated sci-fi programming block on TNT, Raised By Wolves is part of the ramp-up at Scott’s Scott Free, which has seven series on broadcast, cable and streaming, more than it has ever had at one time. The list also includes returning dramas The Terror on AMC, The Man In the High Castle on Amazon and The Good Fight and Strange Angel on CBS All Access, as well as the upcoming The Passage on Fox and the Hot Zone limited series on National Geographic.
The company’s development slate includes two broadcast dramas, Gideon Crew, from writer Chap Taylor, at NBC, and Humint, from writer Kyle Harimoto, at CBS; Girls with Guns,...
The company’s development slate includes two broadcast dramas, Gideon Crew, from writer Chap Taylor, at NBC, and Humint, from writer Kyle Harimoto, at CBS; Girls with Guns,...
- 1/9/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Turkey is being tipped as one of the potential new hot destinations for formats. Now the country, which straddles Europe and Asia, is making a big entrance into the Us marketplace with the first scripted format set up at a network by American producers, Ghost Whisperer alums Ian Sander and Kim Moses. The project, The End, to be directed and executive produced by Peter Horton and written by feature writer Michael Cooney (Identity), is one of two dramas sold by Sander/Moses Prods., along with The Edge, written by another feature scribe, Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes) and produced by Mark Roberts (Strangers With Candy). Sander and Moses are executive producing both projects while also prepping their midseason CBS drama series, Reckless. The End, which is set up at Fox with 20th TV producing, centers on Lauren Marks who believes she is leading a perfect life — she has a loving husband,...
- 10/9/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Warrior's Gavin O'Connor has found his next feature directing gig. Deadline reports that he is on board to direct Yakuza, a contemporary Japan-set thriller for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. The story follows "an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of post-tsunami Japan."
Aaron & Matthew Benay wrote the original script, with Chap Taylor doing rewrites. O’Connor and Josh Fagin are rewriting the script again. Brian Grazer is producing, and Imagine’s Kim Roth and Sarah Bowen will be executive producers. O’Connor is also attached to direct Neverland, a Channing Tatum-produced revisionist look at Peter Pan for Sony Pictures scripted by Billy Ray. He also has The Samurai, a spec script he wrote with Michael J. Wilson, for Warner Bros.
Warrior was god awful, so I hope...
Aaron & Matthew Benay wrote the original script, with Chap Taylor doing rewrites. O’Connor and Josh Fagin are rewriting the script again. Brian Grazer is producing, and Imagine’s Kim Roth and Sarah Bowen will be executive producers. O’Connor is also attached to direct Neverland, a Channing Tatum-produced revisionist look at Peter Pan for Sony Pictures scripted by Billy Ray. He also has The Samurai, a spec script he wrote with Michael J. Wilson, for Warner Bros.
Warrior was god awful, so I hope...
- 5/11/2012
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Gavin O’Connor ("Warrior") is set to direct the contemporary Japan-set thriller "Yakuza" at Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment says Deadline.
The story follows an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of a post-tsunami Japan.
Aaron & Matthew Benay and Chap Taylor penned the script while O’Connor and Josh Fagin will perform re-writes. Brian Grazer is producing.
The story follows an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of a post-tsunami Japan.
Aaron & Matthew Benay and Chap Taylor penned the script while O’Connor and Josh Fagin will perform re-writes. Brian Grazer is producing.
- 5/11/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Coming off the fairly generic cop drama Pride and Glory, director Gavin O’Connor surprised just about everyone with his emotionally-packed story of family and Mma fighting in last year’s Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton-starrer Warrior. He’s now looking towards his next project and it might send him to Japan.
Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has signed the director for a thriller titled Yakuza. The film follows a CIA-esque intelligence expert who gets connected in with the dangerous mafia of Japan called the yakuza. He links up with a godfather baddie and things get even worse from there, all in the “toxic landscape of post-tsunami Japan.”
O’Connor will also take a stab at the script with Josh Fagin, which originated with Aaron & Matthew Benay and was since passed to Chap Taylor. In other words, it’s like any Hollywood production. This is actually an enticing project,...
Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has signed the director for a thriller titled Yakuza. The film follows a CIA-esque intelligence expert who gets connected in with the dangerous mafia of Japan called the yakuza. He links up with a godfather baddie and things get even worse from there, all in the “toxic landscape of post-tsunami Japan.”
O’Connor will also take a stab at the script with Josh Fagin, which originated with Aaron & Matthew Benay and was since passed to Chap Taylor. In other words, it’s like any Hollywood production. This is actually an enticing project,...
- 5/11/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
After the debut of last year’s criminally underseen and severely underrated Warrior, writer and director Gavin O'Connor did manage to find one major silver lining – the adoration of scads of brand new fans who loved his film and wanted to see more of his work. Fortunately, while Warrior went without much of the notice it deserved, O’Connor has not, as the filmmaker has been steadily lining up work in the months since the film hit theaters. Next up, Universal Pictures has picked the director to helm Yakuza, “a contemporary Japan-set thriller” that focuses on “an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of post-tsunami Japan.” The film’s script was penned by Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes), but O’Connor will now rewrite it, along with Josh Fagin. Imagine Entertainment and Brian Grazer are producing. While...
- 5/10/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Even though I don't watch Mma or any sort of martial arts, Gavin O'Connor's Warrior was one of my favorite movies of 2011. It's a great sports drama which featured fantastic performances from Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, and Nick Nolte. Deadline reports that O'Connor has found a new project, a contemporary Japanese crime thriller called Yakuza which is about - you guessed it - the Japanese equivalent to the mafia. The plot follows an American intelligence guru who gets in over his head dealing with the head of the crime syndicate, slipping even deeper into the seedy underworld of the Japanese criminal organization. O'Connor can do some truly excellent work when he's given the right amount of control, so I'm happy to hear that he and producer Josh Fagin will be rewriting Chap Taylor's original script for Yakuza. This project sounds much closer to Pride and Glory than Miracle,...
- 5/10/2012
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
Though it was mysteriously ignored at the box office, director Gavin O’Connor delivered one of last year’s treats with Tom Hardy / Joel Edgerton punch-a-thon Warrior. And he’s now a man in demand, presumably because big manly movie execs are still sobbing over that story, and has several projects on the go. He’s adding one more to the list, with Universal hiring him to direct Yakuza.Chap Taylor wrote the first draft of the script, which sees an American intelligence expert becoming entangled with a notorious Japanese crime godfather and dealing with the dangerous underworld of a country still dealing with the fallout of the 2011 tsunami.O’Connor will re-write the screenplay for producer Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment and at this early stage, there’s no indication of when this one will actually go in front of cameras. He’s got plenty on his plate already,...
- 5/10/2012
- EmpireOnline
So are yakuza flicks the hot new trend in Hollywood or are those Far East markets more important than ever? Probably a bit of both. Earlier this year, "Safe House" helmer signed up to direct the yakuza crime flick "The Outsider" at Warner Bros., and now a rival project of sorts is gearing up.
"Warrior" helmer Gavin O'Connor will get behind the camera for the clearly named "Yakuza" for the suits at Universal. Originally penned by Chap Taylor ("Changing Lanes"), with O'Connor and Josh Fagin ("Pride & Glory") to rewrite, the story centers on an American intelligence officer who gets caught up in the post-tsunami underworld of Japan, mixing it up with a yakuza godfather. So yeah, that's pretty vague, but it's all we got for now. O'Connor certainly is no stranger to men squaring off mentally, emotionally or physically and he's a pretty solid choice by producer Brian Grazer to direct the flick.
"Warrior" helmer Gavin O'Connor will get behind the camera for the clearly named "Yakuza" for the suits at Universal. Originally penned by Chap Taylor ("Changing Lanes"), with O'Connor and Josh Fagin ("Pride & Glory") to rewrite, the story centers on an American intelligence officer who gets caught up in the post-tsunami underworld of Japan, mixing it up with a yakuza godfather. So yeah, that's pretty vague, but it's all we got for now. O'Connor certainly is no stranger to men squaring off mentally, emotionally or physically and he's a pretty solid choice by producer Brian Grazer to direct the flick.
- 5/10/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Director Gavin O’Connor is headed to Japan. The man who pit Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton against each other in an Mma ring will be directing a Japan-set thriller called “Yakuza” for Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. “Yakuza” will find “an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of post-tsunami Japan.” O’Connor is expected to rewrite the script by Chap Taylor, though how quick he gets on it is anybody’s guess. Coming off “Warrior”, O’Connor already has “The Samurai” set up at Warner Bros., and was previously attached to direct another “re-imagining” of the Peter Pan story in “Neverland”, a film that will be produced by (but not star) Channing Tatum. By the way, despite the title, “The Samurai” has nothing to do with Japan at all.
- 5/10/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Exclusive: Universal Pictures has set Gavin O’Connor to direct Yakuza, a contemporary Japan-set thriller for Imagine Entertainment. Brian Grazer is producing. The focus is an American intelligence expert who becomes embroiled in the affairs of a notorious yakuza godfather and finds himself plunged into the violent criminal underworld and toxic landscape of post-tsunami Japan. The project originated at Imagine, with a script originally written by Aaron & Matthew Benay, and rewritten by Chap Taylor. O’Connor will rewrite the script with Josh Fagin, and Imagine’s Kim Roth and Sarah Bowen will be executive producers. O’Connor, who last helmed Warrior, is separately attached to direct Neverland, a Channing Tatum-produced revisionist look at Peter Pan for Sony Pictures that has a Billy Ray script, as well as The Samurai, a spec script he wrote with Michael J. Wilson, for Warner Bros. He’s also fashioning the Walter Tevis novel...
- 5/10/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The team behind Aspen Comics' newest series share details about how they made their idea, originally conceived for television, into a comic book reality. For more than a century there has been this rather farfetched myth that New York City may perhaps be the largest graveyard and most haunted place in the entirety of the United States. It is an ouroburos, continuously recreating while simultaneously destroying itself. While each new layer of the city rises, another must fall filling the depths of Manhattan with the ghosts of New York’s past. At first, it may not be as plausible as the tales of a city that never sleeps or the real life Gotham, but when you really get to thinking it is scary how real this legend creator/writer Chap Taylor has stumbled upon truly is. Haunted City begins by...
- 10/27/2011
- by Sarah Dixey
- The Daily BLAM!
Haunted City #1
Written by Chap Taylor, Peter Johnson
Illustrated by Michael Ryan
Colored by Kelsey Shannon, Beth Sotelo
Letters by Josh Reed
Aspen Comics
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Cover Price: $3.50
Paranormal comics usually aren't my bag, but this one seemed different. A crooked cop, a Celtic goddess and children dying. Haunted City #1 brings all that to the story and a bit more. Best of all, not only is it a comic series but it will apparently transition into a feature film, a television show, and a video game.
The story is just getting started, obviously, but Chap Taylor and Peter Johnson spin one hell of an interesting tale. Secret police, female rabbis, drug dealers. A very populated first comic. And that's not even including all the ghosts...it seems New York is an undead haven! The comic actually describes it as "the biggest haunted house in the world." Even the bold...
Written by Chap Taylor, Peter Johnson
Illustrated by Michael Ryan
Colored by Kelsey Shannon, Beth Sotelo
Letters by Josh Reed
Aspen Comics
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Cover Price: $3.50
Paranormal comics usually aren't my bag, but this one seemed different. A crooked cop, a Celtic goddess and children dying. Haunted City #1 brings all that to the story and a bit more. Best of all, not only is it a comic series but it will apparently transition into a feature film, a television show, and a video game.
The story is just getting started, obviously, but Chap Taylor and Peter Johnson spin one hell of an interesting tale. Secret police, female rabbis, drug dealers. A very populated first comic. And that's not even including all the ghosts...it seems New York is an undead haven! The comic actually describes it as "the biggest haunted house in the world." Even the bold...
- 10/12/2011
- by Waerloga69
- Geeks of Doom
Aspen Comics' "Haunted City" #1, available October 12, 2011, is written by Chap Taylor, Peter Johnson, with illustrations by Michael Ryan and covers by Ryan, Joe Benitez, Micah Gunnell :
"...time is running out for 'Detective Tom Whalen', with NYPD Internal Affairs breathing down his neck, drug dealers chasing him across the streets of Manhattan, and a lunatic crime boss wanting him dead. His only chance for salvation is a 'Priest' who offers him a chance to work on his team.
"Whalen soon discovers that this is a very special team: a secret unit within the NYPD that has existed for centuries. A unit as old as New York itself, sworn to protect the city from monsters and myths, the terrors and nightmares that exist in the darkest shadows and corners of the great metropolis..."
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"...time is running out for 'Detective Tom Whalen', with NYPD Internal Affairs breathing down his neck, drug dealers chasing him across the streets of Manhattan, and a lunatic crime boss wanting him dead. His only chance for salvation is a 'Priest' who offers him a chance to work on his team.
"Whalen soon discovers that this is a very special team: a secret unit within the NYPD that has existed for centuries. A unit as old as New York itself, sworn to protect the city from monsters and myths, the terrors and nightmares that exist in the darkest shadows and corners of the great metropolis..."
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- 10/5/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The Mark Gordon Co. has set up two more projects at ABC: Chap Taylor’s drama Untouchable and an hourlong project based on Candace Bushnell’s book One Fifth Avenue. Both hail from ABC Studios. Described as a stylish, sexy modernization of Miami Vice for the 21st century, Untouchable centers on a hard-charging female FBI agent with a blue-collar background who is teamed with a reckless, independently wealthy Lapd detective to take on organized crime. Changing Lanes writer Taylor is set to pen the script and executive produce with Gordon and The X Files and Castle helmer Rob Bowman, who is attached to direct. Taylor, repped by Wme and Management 360, just delivered the pilot script for his FX drama project about an illegal immigrant-turned-private eye, which drew a lot of attention when first unveiled by Deadline last year; Rodrigo Garcia is attached to direct the potential pilot. Taylor also...
- 9/8/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Director/Producer McG has announced that he’s getting into comic books. The man behind Supernatural and Chuck announced on Friday that he is starting a comic imprint through his company, Wonderland Sound and Vision, and the first title to be produced through the new venture will be Haunted City, an supernatural story set in various cities around the world.
The comic is based on an idea by screenwriter Chap Taylor, and will be written by Taylor and Wonderland’s Peter Johnson in association with Aspen Comics. But his vision doesn’t stop there. McG also plans to make Haunted City a pilot and if he has his way, a movie. And hopes to do the same with other projects in the future.
“As a filmmaker, I want to work with talent like Chap to build new models that allow us to create more freely By creating our own original properties,...
The comic is based on an idea by screenwriter Chap Taylor, and will be written by Taylor and Wonderland’s Peter Johnson in association with Aspen Comics. But his vision doesn’t stop there. McG also plans to make Haunted City a pilot and if he has his way, a movie. And hopes to do the same with other projects in the future.
“As a filmmaker, I want to work with talent like Chap to build new models that allow us to create more freely By creating our own original properties,...
- 4/4/2011
- by Brandon Johnston
- ScifiMafia
Wonderland Sound and Vision, McG's production outfit, is getting in the comic book game with "Haunted City" - a tale that takes place in various major cities around the country. The whole thing is based on an idea by Chap Taylor. Peter Johnson will script the comic while, at the same time, McG is developing the project as a feature film. Oh, and they're looking to take the idea to television as well. Talk about flooding the market. This puts McG back in spookshow territory as his Wonderland Sound and Vision is also behind the successful Supernatural .
- 4/1/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
"Changing Lanes" scribe Chap Taylor's "Haunted City" is set to be the first title of a new transmedia label launched by McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision reports Deadline.
Wonderland aims to create properties out of original ideas that will be developed as graphic novels and potentially features, series and video games. 'City' is described as a dark, supernatural story set in major cities around the world.
Taylor and Peter Johnson will write the 'Haunted' comic and will simultaneously develop a feature script and a TV pilot, both of which McG could direct. A video game is also planned.
Wonderland aims to create properties out of original ideas that will be developed as graphic novels and potentially features, series and video games. 'City' is described as a dark, supernatural story set in major cities around the world.
Taylor and Peter Johnson will write the 'Haunted' comic and will simultaneously develop a feature script and a TV pilot, both of which McG could direct. A video game is also planned.
- 4/1/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision has launched a comics imprint to create 'transmedia' properties. The Terminator Salvation and Charlie's Angels director is working with Aspen Comics to create titles that can then be developed into feature films and television shows, reports Deadline. Wonderland's first title will be Haunted City, based on a concept from screenwriter Chap Taylor (Changing Lanes), who is writing the comic alongside Wonderland's Peter Johnson. Haunted City will also be developed into a movie screenplay that McG hopes to direct, a TV pilot that Wonderland will executive produce, and a potential video game. "As a filmmaker, (more)...
- 4/1/2011
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
After reading the reviews for Terminator: Salvation, director McG learned a lot about horror in print. In fact, we're sure that his spine is tingling to this very day. Still, you can't just grab your ball and go home, and the man has some new stuff cooking.
Deadline reports that McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision has launched a new comic and graphic novel imprint to create transmedia properties out of original ideas. The first title will be Haunted City, based on an idea by screenwriter Chap Taylor.
The comic, written by Taylor and Wonderland's Peter Johnson, is a dark, supernatural story set in major cities around the world, with New York the venue for the first comic. It will be published by Wonderland in association with Aspen Comics.
It will simultaneously be developed into a feature script that McG (pictured right) hopes to direct, as well as a TV...
Deadline reports that McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision has launched a new comic and graphic novel imprint to create transmedia properties out of original ideas. The first title will be Haunted City, based on an idea by screenwriter Chap Taylor.
The comic, written by Taylor and Wonderland's Peter Johnson, is a dark, supernatural story set in major cities around the world, with New York the venue for the first comic. It will be published by Wonderland in association with Aspen Comics.
It will simultaneously be developed into a feature script that McG (pictured right) hopes to direct, as well as a TV...
- 4/1/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
McG has directed a slew of big films, but they're always disappointing. Is anyone really a fan of Charlie's Angels, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle or Terminator: Salvation? None of them are quality films, which is why I'm always concerned when his name is attached to anything. While he preps Ouija for Platinum Dunes, he'll be developing a new comic book line that he hopes will be adapted into feature films for him to direct. McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision has launched a new comic and graphic novel imprint to create transmedia properties out of original ideas, writes Deadline. The first title will be Haunted City, based on an idea by screenwriter Chap Taylor. The comic, written by Taylor and Wonderland's Peter Johnson, is a dark, supernatural story set in major cities around the world, with New York the venue for the first comic. It will be published by Wonderland.
- 4/1/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision has launched a new comic and graphic novel imprint to create transmedia properties out of original ideas. The first title will be Haunted City, based on an idea by screenwriter Chap Taylor. Taylor and Wonderland's Peter Johnson will write the comic, will be published by Wonderland in association with Aspen Comics. It will simultaneously be developed into a feature script that McG hopes to direct, as well as a TV pilot that Wonderland will executive produce. A vidgame is also in the works. Taylor scripted Changing Lanes and is adapting Gideon's War for Michael Bay and Paramount. The comic is a dark, supernatural story set in major cities around the world, with New York the venue for the first comic. "As a filmmaker, I want to work with talent like Chap to build new models that allow us to create more freely," McG said.
- 4/1/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The theme of an illegal immigrant as an undercover detective has won a development slot on FX. Deadline reported that the network, home to the outlaw M/C Samcro and "It's Always Sunny" has taken on an illegal alien character-driven drama from "Changing Lanes" writer Chap Taylor. The protagonist is described as an illegal Mexican immigrant working as a private investigator. TV and film director Rodrigo Garcia will reportedly direct and executive produce the project. The private eye genre is alive and well in HBO's comedy "Bored to Death," and is coming back for season three. But for the networks, the Pi dramas are all but memories (Rockford Files, Columbo). The series is described as a fly on the wall...
- 11/5/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
FX is developing a new drama project focusing on an illegal Mexican immigrant who works as a private investigator. Deadline reports that the pilot episode will be written by Chap Taylor, known for his work on the 2002 film thriller Changing Lanes. Taylor described the show as "Traffic meets Chinatown" and explained that the central character would tap into "an invisible network" of immigrants. "[Immigrants are] people we don't pay attention to who see everything," he claimed. "The theme [of the show] is about helping the powerless (more)...
- 11/5/2010
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Update: The prospect of FX doing what would be the first series centered on an illegal immigrant character sure brought up a lot of emotions today. Here is the project's writer Chap Taylor responding to the criticism in some of the comments posted after the story was picked up by the Drudge Report: I’m not here to insult anyone or make assumptions about their intelligence, patriotism or morality based on the networks they watch or the web sites they view. I would just like to respectfully make the following points: 1.) I am a middle-aged white guy, a practicing Roman Catholic, and a former Army paratrooper (peacetime). I am about as American as American gets. I would appreciate it if you would not pre-judge my character and intentions before you actually see the show. 2.) The pilot script hasn’t even been written yet. For people from any background to decide...
- 11/4/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Chap Taylor ("Changing Lanes") is set to pen a script adaptation of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's upcoming novel "Gideon's Sword" for Paramount Pictures says Heat Vision.
The first in a twelve book series, the story follows Gideon Crew who, two decades on, gets revenge for the brutal murder of his father. However a mysterious witness to the crime steps forward and offers Crew "the chance of a lifetime".
Michael Bay will produce the feature through his Bay Films. Preston and Child have published thirteen horror and techno-thriller themed New York Times bestsellers together over the past fifteen years including Brimstone, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Cemetery Dance, Fever Dream, Riptide and Thunderhead. Their first collaboration, 1995's museum monster story "Relic", was adapted two years later by Paramount into 1997's "The Relic".
The first in a twelve book series, the story follows Gideon Crew who, two decades on, gets revenge for the brutal murder of his father. However a mysterious witness to the crime steps forward and offers Crew "the chance of a lifetime".
Michael Bay will produce the feature through his Bay Films. Preston and Child have published thirteen horror and techno-thriller themed New York Times bestsellers together over the past fifteen years including Brimstone, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Cemetery Dance, Fever Dream, Riptide and Thunderhead. Their first collaboration, 1995's museum monster story "Relic", was adapted two years later by Paramount into 1997's "The Relic".
- 9/28/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Heat Vision have news this morning that Michael Bay has signed Chap Taylor (who wrote the screenplay for Ben Affleck/Samuel L Jackson-starrer Changing Lanes) for scripting duties on his adaptation of “Gideon’s Sword” for Paramount.
Gideon’s Sword is a 12-part book series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child about a hero who has the ability to convince people of anything. The first part is out in book stores in February 2011, but clearly someone thinks it is good enough material to want to get cracking with the film rights straight away.
The hero in question will use his powers to try to free his falsely-accused father, who has been imprisoned by the Nsa. Presumably that will be more of a challenge than simply saying to the guards, “this is not the man you are looking for, you want to let him go”, otherwise how do you fill 12 volumes? As Heatvision surmise,...
Gideon’s Sword is a 12-part book series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child about a hero who has the ability to convince people of anything. The first part is out in book stores in February 2011, but clearly someone thinks it is good enough material to want to get cracking with the film rights straight away.
The hero in question will use his powers to try to free his falsely-accused father, who has been imprisoned by the Nsa. Presumably that will be more of a challenge than simply saying to the guards, “this is not the man you are looking for, you want to let him go”, otherwise how do you fill 12 volumes? As Heatvision surmise,...
- 9/28/2010
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Chap Taylor will write the Michael Bay-produced novel adaptation Gideon's Sword for Paramount, reports Heat Vision . Paramount recently announced their plans to adapt the upcoming novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Bay is said to be overseeing production, but no director has yet been announced. The novel, planned for release in February 2011, spins off from the Preston and Child's popular Agent Pendergast series, focusing on investigator Gideon Crew, described by Grand Central Publishing Executive Editor Jaime Levine as, "...a brash, young upstart who deserves his own series." Specific plot details are withheld at this time, but the book is designed to launch a series that will run concurrently with future Pendergast volumes, the tenth of which, Fever...
- 9/28/2010
- Comingsoon.net
So far, the only writing credit Chap Taylor has on his resume is for the script to the 2002 thriller Changing Lanes starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson. Now he's finally lined up his next big writing gig as Heat Vision reports Taylor has been hired to write the adaptation of the forthcoming Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child novel Gideon's Sword for Paramount Pictures as well as producer Michael Bay via his Bay Films production company. The story follows Gideon Crew, a man who can convince people of almost anything as he tries to clear the name of his wrongfully imprisoned father and possibly save the world at the same time. Paramount and Bay hope to kick-start a Jason Bourne-style franchise that will bring all of the action that Bay usually delivers but with attempts to include some substantial character development. Taylor says he's infinitely excited about the work, especially ...
- 9/28/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Back in May, we told you about a new project that Michael Bay is busy developing as a likely next directorial outing called Gideon’s Sword. Now the Heat Vision Blog offers word about a writer for the movie – Changing Lanes’ Chap Taylor – and some actual plot details. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the novelists behind the planned Gideon’s Crew series, which is ambitiously plotted as a 12-book set and is aiming to launch the first salvo this coming February.The plot follows a young man who can convince people of almost anything and who is on a desperate mission to clear his father’s name after Pops is wrongly imprisoned by the Nsa. Oh, and he has to save the world at the same time.Taylor, meanwhile, seems glad that he’ll finally get a chance to work on something that might have a chance hit the screen.
- 9/28/2010
- EmpireOnline
Chicago – Paramount Home Video is unleashing waves of catalog titles this month. It started with the comedy wave last Tuesday and continues with a diverse slate of action films this week.
Like the comedy set, the films have very little in common other than their genre (and even that is a bit sketchy with “The Machinist” bearing little resemblance to “Paycheck”). The highlights of the wave are clearly “3 Days of the Condor,” “The Machinist,” and “Changing Lanes” with “Enemy at the Gates” certainly having enough visual power to warrant a look in HD. “Paycheck”? Good luck with that one.
All five titles were released on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009.
“3 Days of the Condor”
Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “In Sydney Pollack’s critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies…and his so-called allies.
Like the comedy set, the films have very little in common other than their genre (and even that is a bit sketchy with “The Machinist” bearing little resemblance to “Paycheck”). The highlights of the wave are clearly “3 Days of the Condor,” “The Machinist,” and “Changing Lanes” with “Enemy at the Gates” certainly having enough visual power to warrant a look in HD. “Paycheck”? Good luck with that one.
All five titles were released on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009.
“3 Days of the Condor”
Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “In Sydney Pollack’s critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies…and his so-called allies.
- 5/19/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Imagine TV/20th Century Fox TV's high-profile drama "The FBI" is looking for a new network home.
"FBI", a pet project of Imagine Entertainment principal Brian Grazer, was picked up by Fox in August with a series commitment. Late last month, the network passed on the show, which had a big penalty attached to it.
"FBI", which is being done with the agency's cooperation, was taken out to other networks and is being eyed by CBS and TNT, sources said.
Penned by Chap Taylor, the drama centers on an Iraq War vet who is appointed as the new head of the FBI's Critical Incidents Response Group. Imagine and 20th TV declined comment.
"FBI", a pet project of Imagine Entertainment principal Brian Grazer, was picked up by Fox in August with a series commitment. Late last month, the network passed on the show, which had a big penalty attached to it.
"FBI", which is being done with the agency's cooperation, was taken out to other networks and is being eyed by CBS and TNT, sources said.
Penned by Chap Taylor, the drama centers on an Iraq War vet who is appointed as the new head of the FBI's Critical Incidents Response Group. Imagine and 20th TV declined comment.
- 3/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Eisendrath has been named executive producer/showrunner on Fox's drama series "The FBI" and has teamed with producer Marty Adelstein for a drama based on the British series "Ghost Squad", which has been sold to Fox with a significant penalty attached to it.
Both projects hail from 20th Century Fox TV, where Eisendrath has an overall deal.
"FBI", a co-production with 20th TV-based Imagine TV, reflects the changing model of law enforcement post-Sept. 11 and centers on an Iraq War veteran who is appointed as the new head of the FBI's Critical Incidents Response Group -- a division involved in a range of cases, including kidnappings, hostage negotiations, hostage rescue and evidence collection.
The project, penned by feature writer Chap Taylor, received a series commitment by the network (HR 8/8).
Eisendrath will serve as an executive producer alongside Taylor, Brian Grazer and David Nevins.
Based on the Channel 4 series of the same name, "Ghost Squad" is a set-in-Chicago gritty police procedural revolving around a female cop working in a "ghost squad," an undercover unit whose existence is never acknowledged within the department.
Both projects hail from 20th Century Fox TV, where Eisendrath has an overall deal.
"FBI", a co-production with 20th TV-based Imagine TV, reflects the changing model of law enforcement post-Sept. 11 and centers on an Iraq War veteran who is appointed as the new head of the FBI's Critical Incidents Response Group -- a division involved in a range of cases, including kidnappings, hostage negotiations, hostage rescue and evidence collection.
The project, penned by feature writer Chap Taylor, received a series commitment by the network (HR 8/8).
Eisendrath will serve as an executive producer alongside Taylor, Brian Grazer and David Nevins.
Based on the Channel 4 series of the same name, "Ghost Squad" is a set-in-Chicago gritty police procedural revolving around a female cop working in a "ghost squad," an undercover unit whose existence is never acknowledged within the department.
- 9/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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