Ridley Scott’s “Halo” digital project drafts in “Battlestar Galactica” directorApril 4, 2014 - 10:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Veteran TV director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan is set to direct a new chaptered “Halo” digital feature project for 343 Industries, Xbox Entertainment Studios and Scott Free Productions, TheWrap reported. Ridley Scott and Scott Free TV president David Zucker will executive produce the live-action project, which is expected to debut before the end of the year. The trio of companies have their eye on “Prison Break” creator Paul Scheuring to write the project, which is completely different than the TV series that Steven Spielberg is producing for Xbox One. Expected to follow the same format as Machinima's “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn,” the story is set in the 26th century and follows a surgically-enhanced super soldier who is not Master Chief, an individual familiar with the project told TheWrap. Microsoft is expected to announce more details about the project at E3 in June. Neill Blomkamp and Rupert Sanders previously directed live-action shorts and commercials for the “Halo” brand that were well-received by fans of the video game franchise, which has generated revenues of more than $4 billion. Mimica-Gezzan is a well-respected filmmaker who served as first assistant director on eight of Steven Spielberg's movies including “Schindler's List” and “Saving Private Ryan,” as well the sci-fi movies “Minority Report,” “A.I.” and Roland Emmerich's “Independence Day.” He also directed numerous episodes of fanboy favorites “Battlestar Galactica,” “Falling Skies” and “Heroes,” as well as the miniseries “The Pillars of the Earth.” He's repped by UTA and the Gotham Group. Scott Free produces the hit CBS series “The Good Wife” and Discovery Channel's first scripted miniseries “Klondike,” which stars Sam Shepard, Tim Roth, Richard Madden and Abbie Cornish. The company recently produced “Killing Kennedy,” which starred Rob Lowe and brought in nearly 3.4 million viewers. Scott Free is currently developing AMC's one-hour WWII drama “Raiders” from executive producer and writer Evan Wright (“Generation Kill”), as well as the one-hour sci-fi saga “Galyntine.” Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |