KIESCHE@RU-BLUE.ARPA (02/23/84)
The following is garnered from a variety of sources, LOCUS, STARLOG and personal sources: WARP--a science fiction stage trilogy which spawned a comic book series has been optioned by Mark Victor and Michael Grais, best known for POLTERGEIST THE X-MEN--a $22 million Orion picture produced in association with Canada's Nelvana Studios. FIRE & ICE writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway will write the script. The storyline will reportedly follow closely the sequence beginning with Issue 139 in which Kitty Pryde joins the mutant team and will include a "pre-Dark Phoenix Jean Grey". I hope that all makes sense to you folks, I don't read the stuff, I just pass it on... DICK TRACY--Richard Benjamin will direct (or so it says here), Parmount/ Universal is making it, budget is slated at $12.5 million, and THE LATEST RUMOUR IS THAT CLINT EASTWOOD WILL STAR!!!!! FROM A VIEW TO A KILL--the title of the latest James Bond flick, to star Roger Moore. V--THE CONCLUSION started filming on December 21. It is promised by May, in the form of a six-hour telefilm, but there have been some production problems, so don't hold your breath. It will contain all of the folks from previous film--be they aliens or humans, and will run for six (!) hours. Rumour has it that the first film will be shown immediately before, making it a V-week to say the least! RED DAWN--about a Russian Invasion Of The USA. Stars Sandahl Bergman, Harry Dean Stanton and William Smith. Directed by John Milius. MAD MAX THREE--Mel Gibson will return!!!!! RETURN OF THE DEAD--Dan O'Bannon directs from his own script. No knowledge of what the relation is (if any) with certain other Dead films... METROPOLIS--Giorgio Moroder owns the rights to this movie, and is currently devising a new soundtrack with the talents of Kim Carnes, Billy Squier and others. Watchers of MTV and other music/video shows may have seen the recent "Radio Gaga" video by QUEEN which features much footage from Metropolis. To be continued... Frederick Paul Kiesche III -------