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Paramount slays dragons
By Joshua Tyler Sep 24, 2005, 23:43 GMT
A Chinese Mystery Box holds boxes within boxes. In the same way, this book contains 22 parables woven within one parable, the journal of an adventure that echoes the greatest of all quests. ...more
Paramount will pay Pullitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn big money to churn out a screenplay version of the knight adventure 'St. George and the Dragon', according to Variety.
'St. George' is a mythical tale of a noble knight's quest to save a princess from a fearsome, fire-breathing dragon. In keeping with our modern obsession with anti-heroes, producer Doug Wick says that "In Auburn's retelling, the knight will be not so chivalrous, and the princess not so chaste." Auburn's goal is to give a little more personality to the principle characters, muddy them up a bit, if you will.
Interestingly enough, it was Auburn's play 'Proof' which won him a Pullitzer Prize four years ago, a play which has just been released in theaters as a feature film. Auburn wrote the screenplay for 'Proof' as well, and he's also the screenwriter for the upcoming 2006 Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock romance movie 'The Lake House'.
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