Mumbai, September 04: Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment and Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios have announced its first three films.
DreamWorks Studio, a 825 million US dollar deal, is a 50:50 partnership between Reliance Big Entertainment and Steven Spielberg.
The names of the three projects are -Pirate Latitudes, I am Number 4 and Harvey.
A Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) statement issued here today said the three projects are a mix of adventure along with book/ play adaptations.
Transformers director Michael Bay may direct the filmI Am Number 4.
DreamWorks has set Al Gough and Miles Millar to adapt I Am Number 4, the novel co-written by A Million Little Pieces author James Frey and Jobie Hughes.
The duo’s scripting credits include Spider-Man 2, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Shanghai Noon,Shanghai Knights.
The story line involves a group of teenaged alien refugees assimilating to high school on Earth when they discover that their home planet’s enemy is now hunting them on their new turf.
Spielberg plans to produce it and is considering directing Pirate Latitudes, an adaptation of a novel by late Michael Crichton. He had worked with Spielberg for Jurassic Park, ER together for television and Twister.
Screenwriter David Koepp, who adapted Crichton’s novels for Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, also has signed on to create the script.
The film is about a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world’s richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.
Spielberg will be the director of DreamWorks – 20th Century Fox co-production Harvey which is an adaptation of the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play by the same name.
The play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944, and was previously turned into the 1950 Universal film that starred Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull.
The project will be produced by Spielberg and Don Gregory, with Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken overseeing for Fox 2000, which acquired the rights in 2008.
–PTI–