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At the Movies: Michael Apted to Direct Third Narnia

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The Chronicles of Narnia courtesy Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Per the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Apted is set to claim the reins from Andrew Adamson and direct The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third film in the seven-pic series. Among the returning cast members are (spoiler alert?) Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes.... Marc Forster (Monster's Ball) will helm and cowrite with Paul Haggis the 22nd James Bond film.... Ben Stiller will produce/perhaps star in the comedy In Deep, in which a man fighting a parking ticket gets caught up in a nightmarish chain of events.... Per Variety, a September release is set for National Lampoon's Homo Erectus, a caveman comedy (is there any other kind these days, really?) starring the likes of Ali Larter, David Carradine and Gary Busey.... Frank Miller will adapt Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business as a starring vehicle for Clive Owen.

Posted by Matt Webb Mitovich
Jun 20, 2007 10:09 AM
With these two creatives (Forster and Haggis), it's nice to see that the Bond folks are continuing to take their reinvention still further away from the previously ever-increasing ridiculosity and again towards the serious. It should've--and could've--happened under Brosnan's watch, but oh well.

And, it's also good to see that Ben Stiller has a project that really play to his strengths...an anger that boils beneath the surface until BLAMMO! I tend to be disappointed by his films where he plays more "silly" than "seething."

Of course, my opinions count for everything, no? Discuss.
Posted by tricky3000
Jun 20, 2007 12:54 PM
Let's face it - After the freaking hilarious movie with Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelly Long, and Catherine Bach ("Caveman") there is no need for any more Cavemen in comedy.

(That movie still makes me laugh!)
Posted by bhm1304
Jun 20, 2007 2:06 PM
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