Editorial Staff
“It” helmer Andy Muschietti will boldly go where… Rod Taylor and Guy Pearce have gone before.
The in-demand filmmaker, who just this week was the treat of the trades who reported his anointment to a live-action “Attack on Titan” film, has teamed with pliable thesp Leonardo DiCaprio for a new take on H.G Well’s “The Time Machine”.
This one, a collaboration between Warner Bros and Paramount (suggesting it’ll be super expensive – the two shingles teamed on “Interstellar” a couple of years back and proved itself a successful union), will see DiCaprio produce alongside Andy’s sister Barbara – his lucky horseshoe, if you will.
The Muschietti’s have written a treatment for the film, the first “Time Machine” flick since the god-awful 2002 version starring Guy Pearce. Arnold Leibovit, who executive produced that version, retains his position on the new one.
Muschietti has a busy year ahead – what with the “It” sequel, the abovementioned “Titan” and his commitment to the “Locke & Key” TV series.
“The Time Machine”, written by H.G Wells in 1895, tells of an inventor in Victorian England that constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future; once there, he discovers that mankind’s descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi.
Via ‘Deadline‘
