Among the many projects that moviegoers might be able to smell the Rock cooking up is graphic novel adaptation Lore, which for a while last September had Barry Sonnenfeld attached to direct. It appears the Men In Black veteran and studio Warner Bros. couldn’t come to terms on a budget, so he’s jumped ship while hanging on to an executive producer credit. In his place? Newcomer David Green{
The new man with the megaphone has largely worked on shorts, but does have one feature credit to his name – Echo, the tale of teens receiving strange text messages from a new construction site – set for release via Relativity next year.
Now, however, it appears he’ll be making a similar jump to Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Rupert Wyatt and Jurassic Park IV’s Colin Trevorrow, graduating to a big star (Mr Rock, if he has time in his schedule) and a much bigger budget.
Lore, adapted from the IDW comic book, follows a secret society of shepherds who maintain the line between monsters and humanity, ensuring that mythological beasts don’t slip into our world and cause havoc. When the succession line is broken, a young woman has to take on the responsibility for stopping a potential monster-geddon.
Cory Goodman and Jeremy Lott adapted the script from Ashley Wood, T.P. Louise and Robbie Robbins’ work. Yes, it sounds a bit like MIB (and, by extension, recent flop R.I.P.****D.), and has struggled in development for years, but it might finally have found its way. We hope it’s worth it…