Comments on: DEAD WEST movie prospects http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:23:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: George Ferris http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-330826 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:58:21 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-330826 Kim Gerard is right. "White Rose" is based on the life of Lidya Litvak, who holds the distinction of being the world's highest scoring female fighter pilot. It is entirely different from the White Rose resistance organization that Sophie Scholl is associated with. Kim Gerard is right. “White Rose” is based on the life of Lidya Litvak, who holds the distinction of being the world’s highest scoring female fighter pilot. It is entirely different from the White Rose resistance organization that Sophie Scholl is associated with.

]]> by: Kim Girard http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2547 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:12:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2547 Thomas Gerhardt, There are two film currently being made entitled The White Rose. The White Rose Janusz Kaminski is directing and Stephen L'Heureux is producing is the story of a Russian fighter pilot during WWII. Big huge movie and not a remake. As for Dead West looks cool. Thomas Gerhardt, There are two film currently being made entitled The White Rose. The White Rose Janusz Kaminski is directing and Stephen L’Heureux is producing is the story of a Russian fighter pilot during WWII. Big huge movie and not a remake.

As for Dead West looks cool.

]]> by: Thomas Gerhardt http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2405 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:48:36 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2405 Stephen L’Heureux is producing under his Solipsist Films banner (currently in preproduction on LOST SOULS director Janusz Kaminski’s WWII drama WHITE ROSE) A bit off-topic, but if somebody wants to REALLY know about The White Rose, then go and watch SOPHIE SCHOLL, which is one of the most brilliant German films of the past years. I'm not sure if there is a sub-titled version out there. It chronicles the final days of Sophie Scholl, who co-founded the White Rose with her brother and is based on the Gestapo protocolls of her questioning before her execution. It's despite its simplicity scary as hell and shows how much of a hero that student during the 3rd Reich really was. Don't wait for the Hollywood treatment. Watch the real thing. I mean, oh god, Christina Ricci as Sophie Scholl? With Oskar Schindler, er, Qui-Gon, er, Liam Neeson as her father. Please, no Stephen L’Heureux is producing under his Solipsist Films banner (currently in preproduction on LOST SOULS director Janusz Kaminski’s WWII drama WHITE ROSE)

A bit off-topic, but if somebody wants to REALLY know about The White Rose, then go and watch SOPHIE SCHOLL, which is one of the most brilliant German films of the past years. I’m not sure if there is a sub-titled version out there. It chronicles the final days of Sophie Scholl, who co-founded the White Rose with her brother and is based on the Gestapo protocolls of her questioning before her execution. It’s despite its simplicity scary as hell and shows how much of a hero that student during the 3rd Reich really was. Don’t wait for the Hollywood treatment. Watch the real thing. I mean, oh god, Christina Ricci as Sophie Scholl? With Oskar Schindler, er, Qui-Gon, er, Liam Neeson as her father.

Please, no

]]> by: Matt M. http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2360 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:47:56 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2360 Horror westerns are so overdone... That aside, congrats to Rick and Rob. Hope it takes off for 'em. Horror westerns are so overdone…

That aside, congrats to Rick and Rob. Hope it takes off for ‘em.

]]> by: Cameron Stewart http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2345 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:22:53 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/24/dead-west-movie-prospects/#comment-2345 About 4 years ago my buddy Ray Fawkes and I came up with a pitch for a comic startlingly similar to Dead West, entitled Resurrection. Outlaws searching for buried Confederate gold come to a town (the titular Resurrection) cursed by an indian shaman to be overrun by the walking dead, as revenge for an indian settlement being wiped out by the construction of a railroad. We shopped it around to a few places but this was before the great Zombie Boom and so nobody bit. Now there's a movie being made with the same premise! Goddammit. (I'm not suggesting at all that there's foul play involved, it's not really a terribly original idea so it doesn't surprise me that others had the same one. Our timing was just off.) Again, goddammit. About 4 years ago my buddy Ray Fawkes and I came up with a pitch for a comic startlingly similar to Dead West, entitled Resurrection. Outlaws searching for buried Confederate gold come to a town (the titular Resurrection) cursed by an indian shaman to be overrun by the walking dead, as revenge for an indian settlement being wiped out by the construction of a railroad. We shopped it around to a few places but this was before the great Zombie Boom and so nobody bit.

Now there’s a movie being made with the same premise! Goddammit.

(I’m not suggesting at all that there’s foul play involved, it’s not really a terribly original idea so it doesn’t surprise me that others had the same one. Our timing was just off.)

Again, goddammit.

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