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Exclusive Interview: Derek Haas

5 October 2009 5:35 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

A while back FirstShowing.net posted this story about Jerry Bruckheimer acquiring the rights to a short story written by Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma scribe, Derek Haas. The story is titled Shake was one of many that Haas featured on his short story website PopcornFiction.com.

If you haven’t heard of PopcornFiction.com, it’s a website that Haas created so that he and other screenplay writers/writers could flex their genre short fiction muscles. As a subscriber to the site, I get updated each time a new story is published. I read Shake and actually emailed Haas to let him know how much I loved the story and that I hoped there would be a part two. Crafty devil that he is, he ended the story in a bit of a cliffhanger. The short story deals with an FBI agent who is on the hunt for a »

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Jerry Bruckheimer Gets a Shake

30 August 2009 7:04 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Jerry Bruckheimer has picked up rights to Derek Haas' short story titled Shake, and set the writer to develop into a feature-length screenplay.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the origin of Haas' story was a new site called Popcornfiction.com that he recently created for TV and film writers to showcase their pulpy short fiction. Among the contributors are Craig Mazin (Superhero Movie), Scott Frank (The Lookout), Jeff Lowell (Over Her Dead Body) and Nichelle D. Tramble (Women's Murder Club).

"I wanted to create a place where new popular short fiction could flourish and Hollywood could have a new resource for cultivating great ideas," Haas says on the site.

Bruckheimer apparently visited the site, loved Haas' story of an FBI agent chasing a killer while he begins to lose control of his own body and bought the idea for a potential Disney film.

No production date has been set. »

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Merely Bad -- Dellamorte reviews Superhero Movie on Blu-ray

3 January 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

With the WGA strike, Craig Mazin’s website became a treasure trove of insight and information. Alas, the people you like personally may not mean they’re a great filmmaker, and with films like this, it’s hard to know how much control Mazin has. If Craig is happy with the film, he can at least say it’s not bad. And it’s not as bad as the majority of the films like it. There’s also a couple of laughs, which is more than you can say for most of these movies. Drake Bell stars as Rick Riker who starts the film exactly like Spider-Man. In fact the film uses that as a blueprint for the entire film. His next door neighbor is Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton), and he’s not so secretly in love with her, and his Uncle Abert Adams (Leslie Neilsen) has been raising him »

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2009 | 2008 | 2002

3 articles from 2009

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