{"id":4794,"date":"2009-08-19T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2009-08-19T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T09:31:33","slug":"outland-returning-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/outland-returning-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Outland returning to the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/outland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4795 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"outland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/outland-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"outland\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Warner Brothers is calling on Shoot \u2019Em Up director Michael Davis to direct a remake of sci-fi thriller Outland, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118007446.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2563\">Variety<\/a>. The film is being co-produced by Hollywood Gang Productions, and Chad St. John is on board as screenwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood Gang\u2019s Gianni Nunnari said this of the project:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe loved the original sci-fi film with Sean Connery,\u201d he said. \u201cAt its core, Outland is a version of High Noon in outer space, as two courageous people take a stand against a gang of ruthless conspirators at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis concurred with this sentiment and reassured fans of the original by saying: \u201cWe\u2019re staying true to the thematic heart of Outland while expanding the space frontier concept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1981 and loosely based on the aforementioned western, Outland starred Sean Connery as a police marshal stationed on a Jupiter mining colony. Much of the plot centred on a deadly conspiracy, something that is clearly being explored in this remake.<\/p>\n<p>At this time no production date has been set for Outland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros to give this Eighties sci-fi hit the remake treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[1010,699],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}