*Keanu Reeves took a pass and now director Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli) has bailed on the live-action Akira remake says Deadline.
Sources say the split comes down to "amicable creative differences" and the studio will try to put him on another film in short order.
Reeves and Hughes' departures Pre Vis stopped weeks ago...Ugh!
*Meanwhile Variety reports that David O. Russell, who was gonna do the adaptation of the best-selling video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune has also said C-Ya.
Once it's the standard "creative differences" that took hold at first The film was also one of several on Russell's plate and speculation was that while doing interviews about it, his answers suggested that he'd barely played the game at all
Soon after the news broke The Los Angeles Times gave us more details on the split and says part of the reason for it came down to the long and highly ambitious script that was turned into the studio suits.
Russell had taken the film in a completely different direction than the studio had wanted--- a rough, wise-cracking lone adventurer exploring remote regions of the world with one or two helpers.
Russell had created an art-heist movie involving a family of international thieves and a bunch of characters not in the game.
A new writer and director will be brought in to work from earlier non-Russell draft that sticks much closer to the game in style. Attached star Mark Wahlberg is most likely out as well with David's split
And you can obviously forget that 2012 release date too.
*Irrational Games executive Ken Levine was asked by Industry Gamers to discuss the status of the film version of the BioShock Series
"I think we're in the space now of building properties that are appealing to people, and there's a version of Bioshock that makes a great game and there's probably a version of Bioshock that makes a great movie. I think for us as a company, we don't have any need to get a movie made."
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