The Los Angeles Times has published an interesting article on some of the projects that writers are working night and day for to complete the final scripts. Included are G.I. Joe and X-Men Origins: Wolverine:
“Given what’s at stake and the [time] we have left, our writers on every project are working under inhuman amounts of pressure,” said Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who is producing “G.I. Joe,” Paramount Pictures’ would-be tent-pole movie for summer 2009, which as of last week hadn’t even been officially greenlighted.
In September, the “G.I. Joe” team hired “Collateral” scribe Stuart Beattie to begin a total overhaul of the script. Beattie turned in his first draft by the beginning of October and is now busily working on a second set of revisions, which are due back to Paramount on Oct. 31.
Just last week, 20th Century Fox issued an announcement that the studio was laying claim to May 1, 2009, as the release date for its big-budget sci-fi spinoff “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” starring Hugh Jackman. This was just days after it issued an urgent SOS to the major agencies looking for a quick rewrite person.
Visit the link above for more projects working towards the Nov. 1 deadline.
Source: Los Angeles Times
