{"id":47,"date":"2007-08-29T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:05:47","slug":"synder-and-darabont-team-for-illustrated-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/29\/synder-and-darabont-team-for-illustrated-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Synder And Darabont Team For ILLUSTRATED MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>300<\/strong> director Zack Snyder and producer Frank Darabont are teaming together at Warner Brothers to adapt writer Ray Bradbury&#8217;s classic short story collection, <em>The Illustrated Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bradbury&#8217;s book is a collection of unrelated short stories linked through the framing device of a tattooed storyteller whose tattoos come to life, telling each story. Published in 1951, the book had been previously adapted by director Jack Smight with Rod Steiger in the title role.<\/p>\n<p>Snyder will direct while Darabont, Denise Di Novi and Snyder&#8217;s wife Deborah will produce. Snyder will also receive a producer&#8217;s credit. Alex Tse &#8211; who also scripted Snyder&#8217;s next film, <strong>Watchmen<\/strong>, which is currently set to start filming later this fall \u2013 will be handling the screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>The book contains several of Bradbury&#8217;s most famous short stories including &#8220;The Veldt,&#8221; &#8220;Marionettes Inc.,&#8221; &#8220;Kaleidoscope&#8221; and &#8220;The Man.&#8221; In fact, one of the failings of the first film adaptation was that it only adapted three of the 18 stories in the book- &#8220;The Veldt,&#8221; &#8220;The Long Rain&#8221; and &#8220;The Last Night Of The World.&#8221; It seems that Snyder and scripter Tse have a hard job ahead of themselves deciding which stories to adapt. Unless they are planning on a five hour movie, they will invariably leave out a few good ones. It seems to me that this material would be better suited to a made-for-television miniseries, but that was said about <strong>Watchmen<\/strong> as well and Snyder seems to have that project well in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">300 director Zack Snyder and producer Frank Darabont are teaming together at Warner Brothers to adapt writer Ray Bradbury&#8217;s classic short story collection, The Illustrated Man. 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