The story, written by Mark L. Smith, is about a couple who check into a motel and, unaware there’s a hidden camera, become the subjects of a snuff film. Parker will play the wife, who is still reeling from the death of her infant son.
SOURCE: Variety
The pic will be a live-action adaptation of the classic 1960s cartoon with an obvious CGI Underdog as it follows the humble dog named Shoeshine Boy who became the rhyming superheroic Underdog. In the movie, he is adopted by a 12-year-old boy and uses his superpower to protect his love, Polly Purebred, and the citizens of Capitol City from the evil Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage).
Lee’s last animated character was seen by quite a few folks as he voice Incredibles baddie Syndrome and he will also be lending his voice to Columbia Pictures’ Monster House due out this summer.
On a side note, the Hollywood Reporter article also mentions that Lee will be directing a short film that he wrote. The silent love story, which he will shoot this month, stars Giovanni Ribisi and Beth Riesgraf and will be produced by Lee, Riesgraf and Scott Martin for Lee’s production company, niva films.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: Production Weekly
The picture is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and chronicles a love triangle set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century South America. The story revolves around two young lovers who wait out careers, marriages, affairs and deaths until they can finally reunite.
Oscar-winning The Pianist scribe Ron Harwood adapted the screenplay, which is set to begin in Brazil on August 15.
SOURCE: Production Weekly
