Sony Pictures has won a heated bidding war over the rights to make another live-action film based on the 1930s comic strip Flash GordonAccording to Variety the deal being negotiated is in the high six-figure range Breck Eisner Sahara is attached to direct and Neal Moritz will produceThe comic strip created by Alex Raymond followed a polo player who is kidnapped and taken to Planet Mongo where he battles Ming the Merciless The strip was adapted in a 1980 film starring Sam Jones and has seen several incarnations on television most recently in Sci Fis 2007 series starring Eric Johnson Adam Bryantread more
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Posted: 2/28/2008
Master explorer Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) takes on the adventure of his life when he embarks on a treasure hunt through some of the most dangerous regions of North Africa. Searching for whal locals call "The Ship of Death", a long lost Civil War battleship filled with coins, Pitt and his wisecracking sidekick (Steve Zahn) use their wits and clever heroics to help Doctor Eva Rojas (Penelope Cruz) who believes the ship may be linked to mysterious deaths in the very same area. watch
FEARnet talks with director Breck Eisner ('Creature from the Black Lagoon') about Fear Itself and his episode 'The Sacrifice'. watch
