{"id":33112,"date":"2014-04-01T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33112"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:45:50","slug":"fox-hires-screenwriter-for-chronicle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/01\/fox-hires-screenwriter-for-chronicle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Hires Screenwriter For CHRONICLE 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chronicle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Although original director Josh Trank is in the process of revving up production on the studio’s Fantastic Four<\/strong> reboot and they’ve also rejected<\/a> original screenwriter Max Landis’s proposal for continuing the story, Twentieth Century Fox is still interested in a sequel to 2012’s teens-with-superpowers, found footage film Chronicle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To that end, they’ve hired screenwriter Jack Stanley to develop a new story idea for Chronicle 2<\/strong>. If the name is unfamiliar to you, there’s good reason as this is the writer’s first major studio gig. He first came to everyone’s attention when his spec script Sweetheart<\/strong>, landed on last year’s Black List. The logline from Deadline<\/a> – “[T]he story of a female assassin whose attempt to get out of the biz is thrown awry by her high school reunion” – makes it sound like a gender-bent version of the 1997 John Cusack dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank<\/strong>. Stanley also has another spec, a werewolf film called Silver<\/strong>, making the rounds of the studios right now that is also generating some interest in the 25-year-old writer.<\/p>\n

Last August, Landis gave us some hints<\/a> as to what his version of the film would be like, including dropping the title Martyr. He further elaborated a bit the following November<\/a> to Buzzfeed. What he did divulge sounded very intriguing and I don’t envy Stanley the task of coming up with something equally interesting and not more of the same from the first film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The studio brings on a new writer to take a crack at the found footage sequel.<\/div>\n

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