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Fri Nov 14, 2008 — by Robert Greenberger

DreamWorks To Do List Heavy on SF

Comics Adaptations from Platinum, 2000 AD

DreamWorks outlined for The Hollywood Reporter which of the properties it retained after its divorce from Paramount are now on their “high-priority list”. Among them are a few genre properties including:

Cowboys and Aliens: The adaptation of the Platinum Studios comic is still being written by now executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. Ron Howard’s Imagine is producing with Robert Downey, Jr. still attached to star.

Real Steel: A futuristic boxing movie written by Les Bohem (Dante's Peak).

Button Man: The John Wagner and Arthur Ransom graphic novel is being adapted by screenwriter Hillary Seitz (Eagle Eye).

Hereafter: A supernatural-themed original screenplay by Peter Morgan with Clint Eastwood said to be interested in directing the story.

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Grapeweasel (8:09 AM on Sat Nov 15, 2008)

Real Steel: A futuristic boxing movie written by Les Bohem (Dante's Peak).

Paging Richard Matheson's attorney....

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