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Doctor Strange coming your way
It looks as though Marvel’s Doctor Strange will be joining the likes of The X-Men as he becomes the latest comic book star to get his own feature film.
There has been confirmation on Marvel’s part that they will be going ahead with a movie version comic book sorcerer Doctor Strange.
Josh Oppennheimer and Thomas Dean, who wrote the films Conan and Sahara respectively, recently handed in their eagerly anticipated script to the comic book kings and it looks as though it has been deemed good enough to pursue further. At the moment it is now down to a short list of directors who will oversee the continued development of the film in question.
As a key character in the world of Marvel Stephen Strange represents the more magical and supernatural side of hero’s rather than the superpower mutants of The X-Men. As a surgeon who had his hands ruined in an accident, he became the world’s first defence against demons and spectres after turning to mysticism to compensate for his accident.
The film featuring Doctor Strange is expected to be arriving in cinemas around 2013, after Marvel’s feature length Avengers reboot.
There is currently no news on who will be directing or staring in the film yet, so watch this space for more details …
David Fincher to produce Dorothea Lange biopic
Director David Fincher is set to lend his support as a producer to a biopic based on the life of photographer Dorothea Lange.
Dorothea Lange was one of the best-known photographers of the depression era, and photographed the iconic image of the Migrant Mother.
Fincher is currently working on the post production of his version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and as he will be exec producing the future project, David B. Ginsberg will be producing.
The film’s script is currently being worked on by Angela Workman, while the director of the film will be documentary maker Leslie Dektor.
Lange, who was born in 1895 in New Jersey, became one of the most prominent photographers of the Great Depression, a considerable achievement considering she suffered from polio as a child and suffered ailments throughout her life relating to a limp she was left with following her bought with the disease.
The Migrant Mother image for which she is best known is said to be the inspiration behind John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Of Wrath.
The film should know hopefully reach a wider audience with Fincher helping to produce the biopic, and should hopefully bring a whole new audience to Miss Lange’s work.
Fincher’s current project The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo will open on December 26th of this year.
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