Court Room Drama O'Rama

Staff Writer: Samuntha Mackenzie

John Grisham has lifted the veil. His self-imposed no novel to film rule has been ditched. The writer has since had The Testament optioned by Hollywood.

"The story is almost a collection of snapshots or vignettes. When they are all laid out, they tell the story like a scrapbook. Here we did this. Then we did that. His voice is not folksy, it's matter-of-fact. And, somehow, it just works."

Two other books are said to be ready for the big lights: The Partner and The Associate. The latter has Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan and Shia Labeouf attached.

With the Testament, Grisham received greater creattive control over the adaptation and a piece of the back-end as part of his cooperation.

Producers on board include Hunt Lowry, A Time to Kill for $6 million as well as Mark Johnson of Prince Caspian and 821 Entertainment.

A script writer has not been employed yet for the treatment.

Source: Empire Magazine and Bookreeporter

Indie, This Time, No Aliens

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

According to Frank Marshall, Indiana Jones and the Scriptwriting Brigade may be in full swing soon. He told Empire Magazine that waiting another twenty years to do another Indian Jones film was out of the question.

So what will be the premise? Will it be nasty Nazis? No one knows.

What is known is Shia Labeouf is a talker. He's the one who let the plan be known. Though it's not much of a plan, but fans may turn up the heat to get the film made before Harrison Ford is unable to swing from high places.

Want another Indie Jones movie? We do. Let's just forgo the psychic, alien sideshow. We want to get down and dirty.

Source: Empire Magazine