Paramount Developing H.G. Wells Project From Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment; Laura Gillis Tapped To Write Latest Draft Of The Script
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in early development on an untitled H.G. Wells project from Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment, under its Paramount Players label.While specific information on the Wells novel at its center hasn’t been disclosed, we hear that it will be a very loose adaptation stemming from the “mythology” that surrounds one of the writer’s most iconic titles.
The film’s logline is being kept under wraps. A director has not yet been attached.Rising screenwriter Laura Gillis is writing the screenplay, based off of a previous incarnation by T.S.
Nowlin (The Adam Project, Pacific Rim: Uprising). OddBall Entertainment’s Ball, Joe Hartwick Jr. and Hank Wyler will produce, under their first-look deal with the studio, alongside Nowlin.Wells is the iconic English sci-fi writer known for novels including The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, among many others, who over the course of his career was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Notable past adaptations of his work for film include Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise, for Paramount; three iterations of The Time Machine; and two takes on The Island of Dr.
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