Joel Silver

Updates on Wonder Woman, Speed Racer, Logan’s Run and much more

Here are some updates on projects that action film-maestro Joel Silver (producer of The Matrix Trilogy, Lethal Weapon, Predator) has on his plate. There’s some really exciting stuff he’s involved with. Silver also produces medium budget horror films for fun (and some cheddar), with his Dark Castle Entertainment shingle. Here ya go: Return to House on Haunted Hill Silver’s ….

A New Dirty Dozen From Warner Brothers

According to a report by Variety, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow will co-finance a remake of The Dirty Dozen, the 1967 action flick that starred Lee Marvin as a major who conscripts twelve condemned soldier-prisoners for a dangerous mission in WWII. Joel Silver will produce with Susan Downey. The original Dirty Dozen included Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, ….

Logan’s Run and Wonder Woman Updates

Producer Joel Silver (V for Vendetta) recently talked to SCI FI Wire about several of his high-profile genre films that are in various stages of development.  “The next one up is The Reaping, with Hilary Swank and directed by Stephen Hopkins, which is a supernatural thriller,” Silver said in an interview. Silver previously tapped Hopkins to direct Predator 2 and several episodes of TV’s Tales From ….

IMAX to Get V for Vendetta

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that V For Vendetta, a thrilling action- adventure from the creators of The Matrix trilogy, will be simultaneously released to IMAX and conventional theatres on March 17, 2006. Produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski Brothers, directed by James McTeigue and starring Natalie Portman, V For Vendetta ….

Vendetta Pushed Back to 2006

“The V For Vendetta story was written in the late 80’s and takes place in a society in an alternate world and the recent events in London does not affect this scenario. At first, we wanted to release the movie in November but the principal shooting was finished just a few weeks ago and considering ….

Who is directing The Reaping

Joel Silver, producer of the upcoming supernatural thriller The Reaping, recently told Sci Fi Wire that director Stephen Hopkins (who helmed Lost in Space) will begin production on the Reaping this summer. Silver added that The Reaping will aim for a more mature tone than other horror thrillers produced under his Dark Castle banner, such ….