'Wanted' Director Harpoons 'Moby Dick' - Special Feature

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:06 AM EDT
'Wanted' Director Harpoons 'Moby Dick'

Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) will helm a reimagining of Herman Melville's whale tale Moby Dick for Universal Pictures, according to Daily Variety. Adam Cooper (Accepted) and Bill Collage (Accepted) are on-board to pen the screenplay.

The writers revere Melville's original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab�s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.

This change will allow them to depict the whale�s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab's Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.

"Our vision isn't your grandfather's Moby Dick, " Cooper said. "This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story."

Scott Stuber is producing with Jim Lemley and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley.

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