As I wrote last month, the project is a high priority at Sony and gives new studio head Tom Rothman a strong franchise play.

Jensen is a prolific writer-director, who won the Oscar for his short film Election Night. Kennedy film that Matt Damon will star in for Warner Bros, will go right to work, and he has enlisted fellow Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen to work together on a rewrite of the script, the last draft of which was written by Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner. Arcel, who just turned in a script for a Robert F. Separately, Sony Pictures and Media Rights Capital just closed the deal with Nikolaj Arcel to direct The Dark Tower, Stephen King’s long-gestating novel series set in a world woven with magic and revolving around the gunslinger Roland Deschain.ĭeadline broke the story last month that the studio was courting Arcel, the Danish helmer of the Oscar-nominated film A Royal Affair, and also the co-writer of the Swedish version of the Stieg Larsson novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Luc Besson flew in from Paris to unveil the visuals to his ambitious $180 million film Valerian, based on the French comic book series (I’ll have more on Besson in Sunday column with Peter Bart). Michael got his BFA in musical theater, and taught voice at Brigham Young University before establishing his own vocal instruction studio. EXCLUSIVE: While it seems the Comic Con movie panels largely exist to hype sequels and line extensions, there are a couple of attempts at Con-worthy new franchise creations to ponder. Michael Jensen is a bestselling YA and MG author of the acclaimed fantasy novel Woven, released in the United States by Scholastic Press and internationally by Editora Arqueiro and Ravensburger.

Woven by Michael Jensen