Before Twilight , Summit Entertainment was a small studio you never heard of; Open Road is hoping to follow the same path. The distribution company founded by AMC and Regal Theaters has acquired Stephenie Meyer’s The Host , which has Saoirse Ronan already lined up as star in a dual-role. Andrew Niccol is set to direct. Twi-hards, get excited! [ Deadline ]
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Open Road Acquires Adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host for Distribution
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Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of Philip K. Dick and chief executive of Electric Shepherd Productions, is currently overseeing a number of her late father’s works to the big screen. One of them is Ubik , Dick’s 1969 science fiction novel about a group of people experiencing strange shifts in reality in a future where psionic powers are widespread and the lines between life and death are blurred — and Hackett’s confident that Michel Gondry is the filmmaker for the job.
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Philip K. Dick’s Daughter Endorses Michel Gondry’s Ubik
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