Remakes (cont’d)

Another one of those days where remake mania bashes you in the face. From Done Deal Pro, three projects announced today:

Title: Arthur Logline: A boozy playboy’s plan to marry into a moneyed family goes awry when he falls in love with a working class gal. Writer: Peter Baynham 
 
 Agency: United Talent Agency 
 
 Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures 
 Prod. Co: Benderspink MBST Entertainment 
 Genre: Comedy Logged: 2/26/2009 More: Remake of the 1981 film. Larry Brezner and Benderspink will produce. Russell Brand will star. The project was first announced in December 2008. 
Title: The NeverEnding Story Logline: A boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux discovers a parallel world in a book titled “The NeverEnding Story.” As the boy, a loner, delves deeper into the book, he increasingly finds his life intertwined with the plot of the novel, in which a hero in the land of Fantasia must save the universe on behalf of an empress. Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures 
 Prod. Co: Appian Way Kennedy/Marshall Company, The 
 Genre: Children’s Fantasy Logged: 2/26/2009 More: Remake of the 1980s film, which was adapted from a German-language novel by Michael Ende. Dieter Geissler will produce. Warner’s Sarah Schecter & Jesse Ehrman will oversee. No screenwriter is attached yet. 
Title: Total Recall Logline: A man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air. Studio: Columbia Pictures 
 Prod. Co: Original Film 
 
 Genre: Science Fiction Action Logged: 2/26/2009 More: Remake of the 1990 film, which was based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Original’s Neal Moritz will develop and produce. Original’s Toby Jaffee and Columbia’s Matt Tomach & Sam Dickerman will oversee. 
Two from the 80s, one from the 90s.

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