Aaron Johnson And Andrew Garfield Meet For Jack The Giant Killer, Production Pushed Back To 2011
By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 9:30 pm EST
The film, which was originally scheduled to begin shooting this Summer in England, has now been been pushed back to February 2011, in an effort to give Singer more time to better figure out the visual effects. According to HeatVision, Singer will use a process that will supposedly allow him to see the giants in-camera as the actors play opposite them.
Previously:
The original “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale centered around a boy who exchanged a cow for magical beans. After the beans grew into a gigantic beanstalk, Jack climbed it to find a huge house with a giant living inside it, which Jack then began to pilfer. The story ends with Jack killing the giant in self-defense, kind of. A variation on the story, “Jack the Giant Killer,” has Jack venturing into a land of giants and slaying them in increasingly gruesome ways. The new film is a combination of the two. The plot summary is as follows:
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) is also doing a rewrite of the 3D fantasy/adventure project, which has been billed as an “adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend.” The original script was written by Lost (the indie film, not the TV show) scribe Darren Lemke, with a re-write by Live Free or Die Hard/Race to Witch Mountain writer Mark Bomback. DJ Caruso was originally attached to direct.
When a princess is kidnapped, a long-standing peace between men and giants becomes threatened, and a young farmer is given an opportunity to lead a dangerous expedition to the giant kingdom to rescue her.
