Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

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6/18/09 - After forming Unique Features with a three-year first-look deal at Warner Brothers, former New Line executive Bob Shaye and his longtime partner Michael Lynne have assembled a slate of films that includes animation, sci-fi and fantasy, Variety reported.  Among the projects in development:

♦The animated High in the Clouds, an adaptation of a children's book written by McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh, to be directed by Rob Minkoff and adapted by Caroline Thompson, about a squirrel's quest to find an animal sanctuary.

♦Warner Brothers has committed to develop 7th Son, a drama based on a trio of graphic novels by J.C. Hutchins, in which seven strangers, assembled after the assassination of the U.S. president, each realize they are the same man, with the same memories.

♦Warner is also aboard Alt-Delete, a sci-fi comedy written by Tim Kelleher and Danny Zuker, in which two guys working for a video-game publishing company come to realize they are avatars in a larger game.

♦Warner will also develop Thieves of Baghdad, a 10th-century family adventure steeped in the world of the Arabian Nights, with Cole Haddon writing the script.

♦The Mortal Instruments, based on a best-selling young-adult fantasy trilogy by Cassandra Clare, about a young girl who inherited an ability to see and interact with a clan of supernatural spirits.

11/18/08 - Warner Brothers has picked up Control-Alt-Delete, a high-concept SF spec script from writers Tim Kelleher and Danny Zuker, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bob Shaye and Dylan Sellers are producing.  The concept is described as Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure meets The Matrix.

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