The Vatican Tapes

Screenplays for Albert Einstein Biopic, LAYOVER, and WAKE Closer to the Big Screen

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: June 4th, 2010 at 2:54 pm

In recent days, money has changed hands between studios and screenwriters over a trio of interesting projects:

• OddLot Entertainment hired Stephen Schiff to pen a screenplay about the life of Albert Einstein
• Endgame Entertainment has secured the action thriller script for Layover from greenhorn Zach Dean
• Hammer Films hopes to launch an action franchise with Chris Borrelli’s Wake

Hit the jump for details on each future movie.

MAN ON WIRE Director James Marsh Presses Play on THE VATICAN TAPES

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 9th, 2009 at 9:22 am

After wrapping up on “Red Riding: 1980″, James Marsh, the Oscar-winning director of “Man on Wire”, will move straight to the supernatural thriller “The Vatican Tapes”.  According to THR, the film centers on a series of events that unfold after a tape gets leaked from the Vatican displaying an exorcism that goes wrong.  It sounds like a solid premise and even though I haven’t seen his 2005 film, “The King” starring Gael Garcia Bernal, I’m excited to find out how Marsh will handle non-documentary films.

But back to “The Vatican Tapes”, I have a question: has there ever been an exorcism gone right?  Like the priests finish exorcising the demon, the little girl smiles, the priests high-five, and then everyone goes out for ice cream?  Wouldn’t the Catholic Church film a successful exorcism, post it on YouTube, and then say, “Let’s see your Protestantism do that, fuckers!” (Of course, they wouldn’t write it out like that; it would be in Latin).

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