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04Mar2009

Medieval McG?

DateWednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:46AM
I don't think we have enough information to call this official, but it's definitely something to keep our eyes on in the short term. Production Weekly Tweeted the world to announce that McG would be directing something called Medieval, a hot script that is described as essentially The Dirty Dozen at Ye Olde Renaissance Faire.

The screenplay, written by Mike Finch and Alex Litvak, was the subject of a bidding war that eventually saw the project land at New Regency. It would be a good fit for McG because it's still a movie with plenty of action, but it doesn't seem like he's boxing himself into a specific type of film.

However, Production Weekly has been wrong a few times on big projects in the past few months, so until we see something from the studio or McG, we'll consider this case file still open. It wouldn't surprise me if he made it just as it wouldn't bowl me over to learn he was considering the project and decided to pick something else instead.

The Terminator Salvation director will be working on a new 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie as well as T5 in the next couple of years, so Medieval will either have to wait a while or it could occupy some of the director's time during what I'm sure will be long pre-production phases for the other two films.

We don't see a lot of Middle Ages movies, but most of them do decent business at the box office, even if they're awful. I would suspect a big time director would attract big time talent, and that could help Medieval become a big time movie. If everything lines up, of course.

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