Paramount Development HG Wells Project from Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment; Laura Gillis Selected to Write the Final Draft of the Script

Special: Paramount Pictures is in the early stages of developing an untitled HG Wells project from Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment under the Paramount Players banner.

While no clear information as to the essence of the Welsh novel has emerged, we understand that it will be a very liberal adaptation derived from the “mythology” surrounding one of the author’s most sophisticated titles. The movie entrance is kept secret. The director has not been added yet.

Emerging screenwriter Laura Gillis is writing a screenplay based on a previous incarnation of TS Nowlin (man project, Pacific Side: Rebellion). Ball of OddBall Entertainment, Joe Hartwick Jr. and Hank Weiler will co-produce with Knowlin in his first deal with the studio.

Wales is a famous British science fiction writer known for his novels which include: time Machine, Dr Moro Island, Invisible Man AND word warMeanwhile, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times during his career. Famous past adaptations of his work for the film include Steven Spielberg. Ს World War II, starring Tom Cruise for Paramount; three reps time Machine; and two shots Dr Moro Island. The first film starring Bert Lancaster in 1977 was directed by Don Taylor and American International Pictures, and the second film starring Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Tulis and Fayrouza Balk was produced by John Frankenheimer for New Line Cinema.

Ball is a writer, director and producer known for making all three of the 20th Century Fox movies. maze runners franchise. In 2014, Hartwick Jr. He founded OddBall Entertainment, a production company that develops projects for both film and television.

A graduate of New York University’s Tish School of the Arts, Gillis began her career working with renowned producers and executives at several Academy Award-winning companies before moving on to writing and directing horror content full-time. Crystal Like a check. Script of your original spec Property Then it caught the attention of studios and producers, with another script by the author currently circulating in the city.

Akhalin co-signer ᲚThe runner in the maze He served as sole writer on the sequels with Noah Oppenheim and Grant Pierce Meyer. He was also a co-author of Stephen s. denaites Pacific Rim To be continued Pacific Side: Rebellion With Sean Levy, a newly released sci-fi adventure movie for Universal Pictures man projectWith Ryan Reynolds, who posted the third best first week of any Netflix movie in its world premiere.

Ball represented by WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Gillis for Paradigm and Management 360; And McKuin of Nowlin WME, Management 360 and Frankel Whitehead.