Dalton Trumbo was an accomplished screenwriter in the ’60s ’70s who worked on Spartacus and Papillon as well as picking up two Oscars and, due to patriotic controversies, landed eleven months in prison. In 1965, he wrote a draft script for a project called Montezuma, the true tale of an epic feud between invading Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez and titular Aztec leader Montezuma, which was handed to Kirk Douglas but the development came to a stop. Now nearly 70 years on, the world’s most famous film director, who still has street-cred thanks for still making personal movies and being part of the Palme D’Or judging panel, and a lead star seems to be in the bag already.
Javier Bardem is the Oscar winning star of No Country For Old Men, Skyfall and The Sea Inside who’s been scouted for the role of Cortez for Montezuma who’ll be joining Spielberg (director of Jurassic Park, Lincoln, War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Munich, War of the Worlds, The Terminal, Catch Me if You Can, Minority Report, Artificial Intelligence, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Schindler’s List, Empire of the Sun, The Colour Purple, ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws as well as sixteen time Oscar nominee) on Montezuma, which may be several rewrites from the greenlight but Spielberg needs to work on something soon after Robopocalypse and American Sniper respectively fell out of production.
We move on to a big story concerning the Star Wars universe. We all know that JJ Abrams will take over the franchise with Episodes VII (2015), VIII (2017) and IX (2019) and that a new instalment, likely spin offs or prequels/origin stories, will come in every year inbetween, and possibly after. Our favourite to be first up was Yoda, with other rumours stating Jabba or Han and Chewy or, sigh, Jar Jar Binks. However, Star Wars’ screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan is now rumoured to be writing a standalone adventure for bounty hunter supreme Boba Fett, although Jon Schnepp is convinced that this is true.
Schnepp, director of Metalocalypse, makes huge claims. “I know they haven’t announced it,” he told AMC, “I know. I know for a fact. I will never reveal my source, but it is the one written by Lawrence Kasdan.”
Star Wars Origins: Boba Fett/Star Wars Origins: Yoda – 2016?
Montezuma – 2016?
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