News NYCC Redux: The Fifth Beatle Creator Vivek Tiwary ADD COMMENTS Latest Headlines:

The announcement that writer-producer Vivek Tiwary's graphic novel "The Fifth Beatle" would be made into a movie and that The Beatles have given him the rights to their catalog for the adaptation preceded the start of last week's New York Comic Con.

While this news may not matter much to fans of comic book movies based on Marvel and DC Comics characters, it's news that's sure to excite fans of The Beatles since both the graphic novel and movie will tell the little-known story of the popular Liverpuddlian band's first manager, Brian Epstein, whose struggles with being Jewish and gay in a time and place where neither were readily acceptable, informed his work with the band before his death in 1967.

Tiwary himself may have seemed like an odd candidate to write a comic book and movie based on the Beatles manager, but as a Broadway producer, Tiwary has already found huge success with Tony Award-winning shows like "The Addams Family," Green Day's "American Idiot," Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and "Young Frankenstein." Tiwary is also a huge fan of comics and the graphic novel medium, being on the board of Valiant Entertainment, and a regular New York Comic Con attendee. The art for the graphic novel will be done by Andrew Robinson with Kyle Baker. (We actually got a look at some of the interior pages while at Comic Con and it looked fantastic.)

ComingSoon.net sat down with the New York-based writer-producer at New York Comic Con to talk about the project, which is moving forward to start filming next year, a video interview you can watch below.

"The Fifth Beatle" graphic novel will be released by Dark Horse Comics' M Press Books in 2013, and production will start on the film sometime next year as well. Check back here for more details on the production as it becomes available.

In the meantime, today is the last day that you can enter a contest to�

WIN EXCLUSIVE BEATLES ART AND A BEATLES CD BOX SET! (details below)

In honor of announcing "The Fifth Beatle" graphic novel and securing unprecedented rights to Beatles songs' for our feature film adaptation, we are hosting two drawings-- one for an exclusive framed Fifth Beatle print signed by artist Andrew C. Robinson, and one for a Beatles Stereo Box Set-- the band's complete music catalog on remastered compact disc! Contest ends Wednesday night Oct 17.

Full details and enter to win at www.thefifthbeatle.com

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Movie News Stephen King's The Breathing Method Heads to the Screen ADD COMMENTS

Following the success of Sinister at the box office, Deadline is reporting that producer Jason Blum is re-teaming with writer/director Scott Derrickson for The Breathing Method, an adaptation of the Stephen King novella. Originally published as part of 1982 anthology "Different Seasons", The Breathing Method is officially described as follow:

This takes place in an exclusive gentlemen's club in New York, where no one pays any dues. Membership is based upon a telling of tales, and one nightmarish tale about a disgraced woman determined to give birth--no matter the consequences.

Scott Teems is attached to provide the screenplay.


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Movie News Rupert Sanders to Helm The Juliet ADD COMMENTS

Although his name was, just last week, said to be in the running to take on Van Helsing with Tom Cruise, producer Frank Beddor has now confirmed that Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sander's next project will be The Juliet, an adaptation of Alfred Bester's 1954 short story "Fondly Fahrenheit". He also posted an artistic rendering of the project's sci-fi world which you can check out below.

In development for some time, Beddor spoke about the project in a 2010 interview with I Am Entertainment Magazine.

"It�s lovers on the run in space," Beddor said, "so think �Bonnie and Clyde� in space, but with a very unique Bonnie who has a secret. The tone of it is close to the �Bourne Identity� franchise."

Beddor is producing alongside Chuck Roven with a screenplay by Henry Bean. Production is slated to begin sometime in 2013.

It's currently unclear whether or not Sanders' commitment to The Juliet will prevent him from signing on for Van Helsing, but check back for details as soon as they become available.




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Total Film: The Modern Guide to The Movies Gina Carano joins female Expendables project

Ever since producer Adi Shankar announced that he would be assembling an all-new cast of badasses for a female slant on The Expendables, critics and fans alike have been speculating as to who might fit the bill.

As well as shouts for Linda Hamilton, Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie, there has been plenty of love for former MMA star Gina Carano, who turns out to have become the first star to officially sign on to the project.

Carano recently won plenty of plaudits for her all-action role in Steven Soderberg’s Haywire, where she more than held her own alongside the likes of Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas and Ewan McGregor. Shankar clearly liked what he saw…

“I don't know how I'm supposed to make a movie that is supposed to be the female version of The Expendables without Gina Carano in it," said the producer. "It would be like making Twix without caramel or Jamba Juice without jamba."

No word as yet as to when we can expect the film to hit cinemas, although screenwriter Dutch Southern is currently hard at work on the script. As to who will be next to join the cast, feel free to speculate below…
 

Source: Variety

Who would you like to see join Carano? Tell us, below!

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