J.J. Abrams Updates

Sent you home with a hard copy, but here are some updates on J.J. for tomorrow with links to articles, trailers, etc.



He has projects coming out of his ears.



JJ Abrams Updates



Current/Upcoming Projects

· Upcoming Films

o Star Wars, Episodes VII, VIII, IX

o Mission: Impossible 5

o Half-Life (video game adaptation)

o Star Trek 3

o Cloverfield Sequel

· Current TV

o Person of Interest (CBS) – former CIA operative recruited by billionaire to prevent violent crimes

o Almost Human (Fox) – freshman series about cop and his android partner.

o Revolution (NBC) – post-apocalyptic series about world without electricity

o Fringe (FOX) w/Kurtzman & Orci – Final Season – female FBI agent forced to work with institutionalized scientist in order to rationalize unexplained phenomena

· Upcoming TV (among many)

o Believe (NBC) – new show w/Alfonso Cuaron directing and co-writing pilot.

Trailer:

· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eduKXLbcKg

o TV Adaptation of Rod Serling’s unproduced feature script, The Stops Along the Way

o Series Adaptation of “Westworld” (Michael Crichton 1973 movie) w/Jonah Nolan, Jerrie Weintraub @ HBO

o Adaptation of Stephen King Novel 11/22/63





His book, S., came out.



One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.



Synopsis:

A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.

The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.

The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.

The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.

S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.



Star Wars Is In Pre-Production

JJ Directing and Co-Writing w/Lawrence Kasdan



Rumored Reprisals of:

· R2D2

· C3PO (Anthony Daniels – the original)

· Harrison Ford

· Mark Hamill

· Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian)

· Carrie Fisher



They launched their Instagram this week with this Darth Vader Selfie:











Massive casting process for search new leads is underway, one is supposed to be like Matt Damon in Elysium:









Recent Interviews/News Articles (attached in print version):



Keeping Khan a Secret in Star Trek 2 Was a Mistake

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/jj-abrams-star-trek-khan_n_4373240.html



JJ Abrams Tells us What Will Make Star Wars Infinitely Better

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1718092/jj-abrams-star-wars-episode-vii-infinitely-better.jhtml



How TV Influences JJ Abrams’ Movies

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/how-tv-influences-j-j-abrams-movies-20131121



JJ Abrams Backs Joe Cornish to Direct “Star Trek 3”

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/how-tv-influences-j-j-abrams-movies-20131121





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