X-Message-Number: 18594 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:32:04 -0800 From: "John Grigg" <> Subject: Movie: Childhood's End Will Childhood's End ever actually be made? I sure hope so!! Kimberly Pierce is a truly gifted director. Anyone who saw Boys Don't Cry would know she can make a great film. Maybe my roommate Grant Walther can get the job of screenwriter. He sure has the talent. best wishes, John Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:27:31 -0800 From: "namacdon" <> [add to address book] [add to spam block list] Subject: Movie: Childhood's End To: <> Reply To: >Childhood's End >Genre: Science Fiction. > >Studio: Universal Pictures. >Production Company: Universal Pictures/Beacon Pictures. > >Project Phase: Development Hell. > >Who's In It: Unknown. > >Who's Making It: Kimberly Peirce (Director); Armyan Bernstein, Rudy >Langlais (Producers); based on the novel Childhood's End by Arthur >C. Clarke. > >Premise: When at first the giant silver spaceships of the Overlords >descend appear in the skies above the world's major cities, humanity >fears the worst: alien invasion. But when contact with the Overlords >is established, the aliens are found not just to be friendly and >willing to share their technology with us, but also reclusive and >remain unseen. A decade passes, until finally the day comes the >aliens decide to emerge from their ships and show us what they look >like. > >By this time, the last generation of Mankind will have been born on >Earth. > > >Release Date: Unknown. > >Comments: One of Arthur C. Clarke's most popular novels (perhaps >second after the 2001 series), Childhood's End has been trapped in >development hell for more than two decades -- in fact, so long that >other films have since come and gone that have similar premises, or >even visual sequences (the giant UFOs that descend over the world's >major cities in the NBC mini-series V, or the ships from >Independence Day are probably the two best-known examples.) > > >Rumors: Unknown. > >Scoop Feedback: > >February 1, 2002... Kimberly Peirce, director of 1998's acclaimed >Boys Don't Cry (for which Hilary Swank won Best Actress honors), is >now attached to direct the Childhood's End movie. The book's rights >are owned by Beacon Pictures, and Armyan Bernstein and Rudy >Langlais, both with Beacon, are also onboard to produce the film. A >screenwriter is being presently sought. [Source: The Hollywood >Reporter.] Check out Cupid School where you will learn from Matchmaker's best and brightest. Good Luck! http://ecard.matchmaker.com/cupid0202/cupid0202.html Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18594