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Writer John August Says 'Shazam!' is Dead

6 January 2009 1:53 AM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

If you're wondering what's up with Shazam!, please take a seat in the John August section. August, the screenwriter of Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and the Charlie's Angels movies, among others, was hired about two years ago to write an adaptation of the Captain Marvel comic book, also known as Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam, keeping much of its tradition in tact. Or at least that's how it was being reported, more or less.

But now on his blog, August reports that Shazam! is no more, this after a series of rewrites that saw the direction of the project change without his influence.

Chronicling the entire life of the project, August writes:

"I was under contract to deliver one more draft. So I took them at their (written) word and delivered what they said they wanted: a much harder movie, with a lot more Black Adam. This wasn’t “Big,

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Colin Boyd

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Cool CGI Film You Haven’t Heard Of: ‘9′

4 January 2009 1:46 PM, PST | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Since there hasn’t been any coverage of the new Tim Burton produced animated film 9 here on Screen Rant thus far, I thought an update was in order.

The film will be directed not by Burton himself (who’s serving as producer, alongside Wanteddirector Timur Bekmambetov) but by Shane Acker, who directed the same-titled short film that this is based on. It will be written by Pamela Petter, who wrote Monster House and Tim Burton’s own Corpse Bride, and will be voiced by Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover and John C. Reilly.

 

Here’s the synopsis:

When 9 (Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group,

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Ross Miller

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