X-Message-Number: 18594
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:32:04 -0800
From: "John Grigg" <>
Subject: Movie: Childhood's End 


Will Childhood's End ever actually be made?  I sure hope so!!  Kimberly Pierce 
is a truly gifted director.  Anyone who saw Boys Don't Cry would know she can 
make a great film.  Maybe my roommate Grant Walther can get the job of 
screenwriter.  He sure has the talent.

best wishes,

John 

Date:  Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:27:31 -0800 

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Subject:  Movie: Childhood's End 
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>Childhood's End
>Genre: Science Fiction. 
>
>Studio: Universal Pictures. 
>Production Company: Universal Pictures/Beacon Pictures. 
>
>Project Phase: Development Hell. 
>
>Who's In It: Unknown. 
>
>Who's Making It: Kimberly Peirce (Director); Armyan Bernstein, Rudy 
>Langlais (Producers); based on the novel Childhood's End by Arthur 
>C. Clarke. 
>
>Premise: When at first the giant silver spaceships of the Overlords 
>descend appear in the skies above the world's major cities, humanity 
>fears the worst: alien invasion. But when contact with the Overlords 
>is established, the aliens are found not just to be friendly and 
>willing to share their technology with us, but also reclusive and 
>remain unseen. A decade passes, until finally the day comes the 
>aliens decide to emerge from their ships and show us what they look 
>like.
>
>By this time, the last generation of Mankind will have been born on 
>Earth.
>
>
>Release Date: Unknown. 
>
>Comments: One of Arthur C. Clarke's most popular novels (perhaps 
>second after the 2001 series), Childhood's End has been trapped in 
>development hell for more than two decades -- in fact, so long that 
>other films have since come and gone that have similar premises, or 
>even visual sequences (the giant UFOs that descend over the world's 
>major cities in the NBC mini-series V, or the ships from 
>Independence Day are probably the two best-known examples.)
>
>
>Rumors: Unknown. 
>
>Scoop Feedback:
>
>February 1, 2002... Kimberly Peirce, director of 1998's acclaimed 
>Boys Don't Cry (for which Hilary Swank won Best Actress honors), is 
>now attached to direct the Childhood's End movie. The book's rights 
>are owned by Beacon Pictures, and Armyan Bernstein and Rudy 
>Langlais, both with Beacon, are also onboard to produce the film. A 
>screenwriter is being presently sought. [Source: The Hollywood 

>Reporter.]


 
 



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