The Clown Prince
06-10-2002, 04:41 AM
This comes from Comingsoon.net
Although he had declared he was done with the Spider-Man franchise, David Koepp is returning to write the sequel based on an idea he just came up with, says Variety. To do this, he will temporarily lay aside his Sony adaptation of the Stephen King novel Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden, a film he's set to direct.
But what about the previously announced writers for the sequel, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the duo behind Shanghai Noon and the hit WB series Smallville? According to Sony Pictures, those writers have only been replaced temporarily.
"David had an idea and agreed to take some time off from the other project to write the first draft," studio chairman Amy Pascal says. "Gough and Millar will then take his first draft and start working from there."
Those scribes, who were working on their own idea and were just starting the scripting process, will now wait until Koepp drafts his idea. Koepp apparently wasn't comfortable with furnishing an idea that another writer would put to paper, and it's likely that the original's huge success helped change his mind .
Makes you wonder what villians Koepp wants to use. Dr. Octopus? Lizard? Both? Or not even any of them.
The Clown Prince
Although he had declared he was done with the Spider-Man franchise, David Koepp is returning to write the sequel based on an idea he just came up with, says Variety. To do this, he will temporarily lay aside his Sony adaptation of the Stephen King novel Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden, a film he's set to direct.
But what about the previously announced writers for the sequel, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the duo behind Shanghai Noon and the hit WB series Smallville? According to Sony Pictures, those writers have only been replaced temporarily.
"David had an idea and agreed to take some time off from the other project to write the first draft," studio chairman Amy Pascal says. "Gough and Millar will then take his first draft and start working from there."
Those scribes, who were working on their own idea and were just starting the scripting process, will now wait until Koepp drafts his idea. Koepp apparently wasn't comfortable with furnishing an idea that another writer would put to paper, and it's likely that the original's huge success helped change his mind .
Makes you wonder what villians Koepp wants to use. Dr. Octopus? Lizard? Both? Or not even any of them.
The Clown Prince