Disney's "Hovercar" is picking up speed. Writer Dan Harris ("Superman Returns") will work on the script for the action-adventure movie, TheWrap has confirmed. Four writers -- John Sayles, Greg Poirier, Blaise Hemingway and David Digilio -- previously contributed to the screenplay, which is based on Matthew Riley's book "Hover Car Racer." Also read: Brian Beletic Onboard for Next Disney Movie Inspired by a Disneyland Ride "Hovercar" is produced by Hemingway, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The film follows two young brothers who are plucked from obscurity to attend the Hover Car Racing Academy. The story...
- 1/12/2012
- by Kurt Orzeck
- The Wrap
When you work in movie development at Walt Disney Pictures, you're always busy trying to build the next family friendly film franchise. And there are literally hundreds of properties that Disney has the rights to develop.
One of these is based on a young adult book called Hover Car Racer. Written by Matthew Riley, Disney picked up the movie rights to it back in 2004 and has been trying (unsuccessfully) to find the right approach that will push it into a higher level of development. Numerous writers have worked on a screenplay and finished their task including the noted John Sayles (Lone Star).
One of the first things Disney decided to do is call their movie script Hovercar. The story is set in the future where floating vehicles have replaced our traditional wheeled cars and a whole new racing sport has arisen. The book's main character is a young driver named...
One of these is based on a young adult book called Hover Car Racer. Written by Matthew Riley, Disney picked up the movie rights to it back in 2004 and has been trying (unsuccessfully) to find the right approach that will push it into a higher level of development. Numerous writers have worked on a screenplay and finished their task including the noted John Sayles (Lone Star).
One of the first things Disney decided to do is call their movie script Hovercar. The story is set in the future where floating vehicles have replaced our traditional wheeled cars and a whole new racing sport has arisen. The book's main character is a young driver named...
- 1/12/2012
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
The trend for turning to young adult novels as likely source material for the hungry development machine shows no sign of abating with Disney thrusting a version of Matthew Riley’s Hover Car Racer back into active development and hiring X2 / Superman Returns writer Dan Harris to craft the script.Simply titled Hovercar, the film version will follow young hero Jason Chaser as he enters an international school that trains up drivers for futuristic hover car races. Good thing his surname wasn't Slowcoach, then…It’s not the first time that the Mouse House has attempted to shove Riley’s book through the development process: it snapped up the rights back in 2004 and several writers, including David Digilio, John Sayles and Blaise Hemingway have taken a whack at the script. Now the Disney team will be hoping Harris is the man to make it work with I Am Number Four...
- 1/12/2012
- EmpireOnline
THR tells us that Disney is putting its hopes on writer Dan Harris, hiring him to pen Hovercar, a sci-fi adventure story based on Matthew Riley‘s young adult novel Hover Car Racer. I put it that way because, as it turns out, the Superman Returns and X2 co-writer is one of many scribes to tackle the material since Disney’s owned it — going all the way back to 2004 — putting him in the same company as David Digilio, Blaise Hemingway, and none other than John Sayles.
Riley‘s original book took place in “a near future where humans travel in vehicles that float a few feet above the ground,” and in which “racing the vehicles becomes a glamorous sport.” The focus is on “Jason Chaser [you must be kidding], a young man who enters an international race school.” That description screams post-Harry Potter kid’s lit — and doesn’t sound all that complicated in...
Riley‘s original book took place in “a near future where humans travel in vehicles that float a few feet above the ground,” and in which “racing the vehicles becomes a glamorous sport.” The focus is on “Jason Chaser [you must be kidding], a young man who enters an international race school.” That description screams post-Harry Potter kid’s lit — and doesn’t sound all that complicated in...
- 1/12/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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Disney is showing no signs of slowing down its development efforts in 2012. Last week it put two directors on two projects, including the high-profile Maleficent with Angelina Jolie attached, and now the studio is revving up its sci-fi adventure movie Hovercar, bringing aboard Dan Harris to work on the script. Hovercar is an adaptation of Matthew Riley’s Ya book Hover Car Racer, which is set in a near future where humans travel in vehicles that float a few feet above the ground. In this society, racing the vehicles becomes a glamorous sport; and the book tells the
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- 1/11/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Tom Pellereau has been crowned the winner of The Apprentice 2011. The 31-year-old inventor was chosen by Lord Sugar to become his new business partner over Helen Milligan, while rival finalists Jim Eastwood and Susan Ma were fired earlier tonight after interviews with the entrepreneur's trusted colleagues Claude Littner, Margaret Mountford, Mike Soutar and Matthew Riley. Sugar will now provide a £250,000 investment into Pellereau's business, which aims to reduce the financial and personal costs of employee back pain through specialist chairs. In the final boardroom, Lord Sugar brushed off concerns from his advisors regarding Pellereau's "lack of focus" and "flawed" plan to offer posture checks to office workers, instead noting the potential in his invention of a chair to combat back pain. > 'The Apprentice' complete coverage
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- 7/17/2011
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Jim Eastwood
After 11 demanding weeks battling it out against Britain’s brightest business talents, only four candidates remain in Lord Sugar’s search for a business partner.
On Sunday 17th July, 9Pm on BBC One, Lord Sugar will decide who will walk away with a £250,000 investment in the business of their choosing, with the Lord himself as their new business partner. A special edition of The Apprentice: You’re Hired! will follow at 10Pm, also on BBC One.
For the first time since series four, four candidates will battle it out in the final; 30-year-old Executive Assistant Helen Milligan, 32-year-old Sales & Marketing Manager Jim Eastwood, 21-year-old Natural Skincare Entrepreneur Susan Ma and 31-year-old inventor Tom Pellereau will go head to head in one final test designed to separate the wheat from the chaff as Lord Sugar prepares to offer one of them a life changing opportunity.
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After 11 demanding weeks battling it out against Britain’s brightest business talents, only four candidates remain in Lord Sugar’s search for a business partner.
On Sunday 17th July, 9Pm on BBC One, Lord Sugar will decide who will walk away with a £250,000 investment in the business of their choosing, with the Lord himself as their new business partner. A special edition of The Apprentice: You’re Hired! will follow at 10Pm, also on BBC One.
For the first time since series four, four candidates will battle it out in the final; 30-year-old Executive Assistant Helen Milligan, 32-year-old Sales & Marketing Manager Jim Eastwood, 21-year-old Natural Skincare Entrepreneur Susan Ma and 31-year-old inventor Tom Pellereau will go head to head in one final test designed to separate the wheat from the chaff as Lord Sugar prepares to offer one of them a life changing opportunity.
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- 7/13/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
It’s all change with this year’s Apprentice, beginning with the news from The Sun that the rejected candidates won’t appear in the final round, as they previously have done.
And instead of two contestants going into the final, this year, there’ll be four.
The paper adds that Lord Sugar “will choose the winner in the gruelling interview round.
“It means candidates fired in earlier rounds will not get their last chance to appear on the show helping finalists in a deciding task, as they have in previous years.”
It seems the changes are to reflect the change of prize this year, which will see the winner landing a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar as opposed to a £100,000 job.
A BBC source said, “This year as the prize is different we wanted to shake things up a bit.
“Viewers love the interview round because it really is the toughest thing about the show…...
And instead of two contestants going into the final, this year, there’ll be four.
The paper adds that Lord Sugar “will choose the winner in the gruelling interview round.
“It means candidates fired in earlier rounds will not get their last chance to appear on the show helping finalists in a deciding task, as they have in previous years.”
It seems the changes are to reflect the change of prize this year, which will see the winner landing a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar as opposed to a £100,000 job.
A BBC source said, “This year as the prize is different we wanted to shake things up a bit.
“Viewers love the interview round because it really is the toughest thing about the show…...
- 7/5/2011
- by Sarah
- Unreality
The Walt Disney Co. is waving the green flag for Hover Car Racer, acquiring feature film rights to Australian scribe Matthew Riley's forthcoming book for Smallville creators and executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to produce. The project falls under the duo's freshly inked 18-month first-look film producing pact with Disney. Gough and Millar have a previous relationship with the studio, having penned Shanghai Noon and its sequel, Shanghai Knights. While the writers have worked in features and television, where they have served as showrunners, the Disney deal represents their move into producing as well as writing big-screen projects. In addition to Racer, they have three other Disney projects in the works.
- 4/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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