Apr 17 2009'Heffalump' Scribe Writing Bullet Trajectory Manipulation-Based Sequel
Even Spiliotopoulos has been handed an unlikely assignment. He's just been hired to write a sequel to last summer's action hit Wanted, even though his previous writing experience includes:
- Tinker Bell: A Midsummer Storm (2010) (V) (pre-production) (written by)
- The Hero of Color City (2010) (post-production) (screenplay)
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) (V) (post-production) (written by)
- The Nutty Professor (2008) (V) (screenplay)
- The Blue Elephant (2008) (V) (English language version)
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008) (V) (writer)
- Terra (2007) (writer) ... aka Battle for Terra (International: English title) (USA: new title)
- Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) (V) (writer) ... aka Pooh's Heffalump Halloween: The Movie (USA: promotional title)
- Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) (screenplay)
- Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
Not exactly an obvious candidate for the job, but I won't judge. After all, as The Hollywood Reporter said, "If anyone could bend a flying bullet, it's Pooh." They got that right!*
*I don't actually know what they could possibly mean by that.
Reader Comments
1. Erica - April 17, 2009 1:44 PM
No post about the piratebay conviction yet?
2. sully - April 17, 2009 2:18 PM
i think if you throw the pooh at the right time, it might be able to bend the bullet, depending on the consistency of the pooh
3. catch22 - April 17, 2009 2:24 PM
Keeping in mind the star of the first movie was Mr. Tumnus in Narnia.they may have decided to be on to something letting the people that work with kids vent off all that super ultra-hostility
4. mild - April 17, 2009 10:31 PM
Well, Terra looks like it has a well written story... maybe this can work. Then again Wanted 1 didn't work.
5. Bob - April 17, 2009 11:46 PM
Well, I finally watched Wanted a few days ago, and I have to say that it did indeed resemble pooh, so I see the logic here.
6. Big City - April 18, 2009 9:29 AM
Jealous much, Ms. I Watch Stuff Writer?
7. Jimmy Jim - April 19, 2009 8:41 AM
whoa...real film news...
am i on the right site? srsly...not cool man.
oh wait...contracting someone to write a script is hardly news, its much more common to see first time writers contracted to write scripts...wats the big deal?/
8. iffies - April 19, 2009 12:13 PM
....erm....i can't say i left wanted going, "wow, what a fantastic script!". does it matter who writes a movie like this???
9. Beastman AIDS - April 19, 2009 11:24 PM
Wanted was a shitpile and Angelina Jolie looks like a filthy skeleton hooker with all her tatts and protruding bones and angles.
10. Matt - April 20, 2009 8:07 PM
pooh as in winnie the pooh.
11. Frank - April 26, 2009 6:42 PM
"Well, Terra looks like it has a well written story"
What? Are you kidding me?