Exclusive: New Republic Pictures and Filmula will co-finance an updated version of The Wild Geese, the 1978 cult favorite mission movie that starred Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris as British mercenaries sent to Africa to restore a leader to power. William Monahan is set to write the script, based on the novel by Daniel Carney. New Republic’s Brian Oliver is producing with Filmula’s Johnny Lin, and Greg Shapiro and Patrick Milling Smith are also producing…...
- 8/22/2017
- Deadline
Hollywood Gang, the shingle behind 300, has optioned the rights to the graphic novel The Last Christmas, written by actor-comedian Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan. The company's Gianni Nunnari will produce, while Craig J. Flores will executive produce.
The story follows Santa Claus as he withdraws from normal life and turns his back on Christmas. When he emerges from seclusion, he has to find a way to save the world, and Christmas, from being overrun by demons, zombies and other bad guys.
No writer has been tapped to adapt.
Hollywood Gang has several projects in the works, including Ocean, a comic book miniseries by Warren Ellis; Frank Miller's Ronin, which has Sylvain White attached to direct; and The Wild Geese, based on Daniel Carney's unpublished novel The Thin White Line.
Posehn, repped by Gersh, is a regular on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program and co-wrote Run, Ronnie Run.
The story follows Santa Claus as he withdraws from normal life and turns his back on Christmas. When he emerges from seclusion, he has to find a way to save the world, and Christmas, from being overrun by demons, zombies and other bad guys.
No writer has been tapped to adapt.
Hollywood Gang has several projects in the works, including Ocean, a comic book miniseries by Warren Ellis; Frank Miller's Ronin, which has Sylvain White attached to direct; and The Wild Geese, based on Daniel Carney's unpublished novel The Thin White Line.
Posehn, repped by Gersh, is a regular on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program and co-wrote Run, Ronnie Run.
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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