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‘Heart of Darkness’ Heads To Outer Space With ‘Species’ Director Roger Donaldson

21 May 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

Anyone who suffered through a high school English class knows Joseph Conrad’s war tome Heart of Darkness. And anyone who has done the same in a Representations of Vietnam class in film school (i.e. me) has thoroughly analyzed Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s modern take on Conrad’s classic work. Both texts conveyed the horrors of war and man’s descent into barbarism, but I always felt as though they were missing something. Then I realized what it was – they weren’t set in outer space.

Three decades after Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando had it out in the jungle, a new reimagining on the story is in the works. Peter Cornwell (The Haunting in Connecticut) was originally slated to helm a science fiction version of the story as adapted by screenwriters Tony Gilgio and Branden R.Morgan, but Moviehole reported that Species director Roger Donaldson has potentially stepped in replace him. »

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