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MovieCrunch Newsbites – Sat Jan 26, 2008

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January 26th, 2008 by Jon Roth

Tagged as: Actors, Actresses, Movie News, Movie writing, Movie-related

Some inside sources have told TMZ that Heath Ledger’s death this past Tuesday could have been from natural causes – possibly even a heart attack. [TMZ]

Fans of Knight Rider and David Hasselhoff can look forward to a TV movie on Feb 17th. Hasselhoff is still in negotiations. [IMDB]

Jessica Simpson is understandable upset about an OK! mag article that claimed Tony Romo dumped her. So she’s siccing her lawyers on them. [US]

Danny Glover was convicted Thursday of trespassing in relation to a 2006 protest in Niagara Falls, Canada. [SF Gate]

Imagine having 20 minutes to come up with and shoot a 2.5 minute movie idea around three objects, and then having an hour to edit. That’s what several teams of aspiring filmmakers had to do in France recently, as part of a competition. [Reuters]

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Like Philip K. Dick Movies? Try Jack Womack Books

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January 9th, 2008 by Jon Roth

Tagged as: Actors, Movie writing, Movie-related

By the way, if you like Philip K. Dick movies, you’ll probably like a lot of his dystopian science fiction short stories and novels. And in that case, you might also like the speculative/science fiction writing of Jack Womack.

Womack’s writing is ripe for film adaptations, especially Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Ambient, Terraplane and Elvissey. (Actually that’s almost his entire catalog, as far as I know.) The latter is about one alternate Earth that worships Elvis. Two agents are sent on a mission to kidnap a 1954 Elvis from another alternate Earth. Except that he’s a murderer and doesn’t want to be worshipped.

Sideshow Films announced that they have the rights to Random Acts, but their website points to Amazon and doesn’t elaborate. I’m hoping that someone does Elvissey. Maybe starring Nicolas Cage, since he’s such a big fan of Elvis (whose birthday was yesterday)? No? I guess I’ll have to add it to my list of screenplays to write.

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