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Methuselah
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Action, Adventure
Production Phase: Script Stage
Studio: Warner Bros. Production Company: Heyday Films
Who's Making It: James Watkins (Director), James Watkins (Screenwriter), David Heyman (Producer),
Premise: A long-lived man that ages at an incredibly slow rate hones his survival skills to a fantastic degree,... More »
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
James Watkins will write the script and direct Methuselah, a new action-adventure project set up at Warner Bros. Harry Potter's David Heyman will produce the film. Like the long-lived Biblical man of of the movie's title, the hero of Methuselah is a man who ages at an incredibly slow rate, allowing him to amass a fantastic array of survival skills over his centuries of experience.
"What I wanted was to come up with an adrenalized thriller that has a bit of intelligence and resonance," Watkins told Variety. Years earlier the writer/director worked for Heyman's production company as a development executive and it was that friendship that brought Watkins' pitch to the attention of his former boss, and then to the attention of the studio. "My relationship with David was fundamental to this outcome, and Warner Bros. president Kevin McCormick just understood the elevated action thriller I'm trying to make." [Full story]
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