{"id":26741,"date":"2013-02-20T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26741"},"modified":"2013-02-20T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T00:21:18","slug":"shane-acker-to-direct-cg-beasts-of-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/20\/shane-acker-to-direct-cg-beasts-of-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Acker To Direct CG BEASTS OF BURDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BeastsOfBurden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26742\" alt=\"BeastsOfBurden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BeastsOfBurden-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Shane Acker, the writer and director of the CG animated feature 9, has been signed to helm an adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel <em>Beasts Of Burden<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Evan Dorkin and illustrated by Jill Thompson, the comic&#8217;s story centers around a group of dogs and one cat who team up to protect their owners from a series of supernatural events. The four-issue miniseries won an Eisner Award in 2009.<strong>Jack The Giant Slayer<\/strong> scripter Darren Lemke is currently working on the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, <strong>Shrek 2<\/strong> Andrew Adamson was attached to direct, but will stay on the project with a producer\u2019s credit.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/9-director-tapped-helm-adaptation-422667\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The 9 director will oversee the adaptation of the Dark Horse comic.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/20\/shane-acker-to-direct-cg-beasts-of-burden\/\" title=\"Shane Acker To Direct CG BEASTS OF BURDEN\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[6184,6183],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"tag-beasts-of-burden","9":"tag-shane-acker"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26741"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}