After launching over a year ago, receiving over 6,000 scripts and 600 movies demanding their attention, Amazon Studios have finally filtered through all the mayhem. According to Deadline, they’ve finally announced their first three projects, as well as the producers attached to each film.
Denise Di Novi — of Ed Wood and Crazy, Stupid Love. fame — will head the first project, Touching Blue. Scott Mullen has written the script, which tells the story of a “woman who has the ability to track people based on things that they’ve touched.” However, this special gift causes physical pain to any human she touches. Think Rouge from X-Men but take away Wolverine and add the FBI, who enlist the woman to help hunt a serial killer.
Edward Saxon (Silence of the Lambs) will produce the next science fiction/horror film Children of Others, which is based from the script by Barrington Smith-Seetachit. It details the life of a woman who is having trouble conceiving, which leads her to consult her local fertility clinic for help. She ends up with a baby, only to find that it’s an alien baby–gasp! The birth of the alien could result in the first stage of a planned invasion.
The final film, Original Soldiers, is based on a short film created by the Amazon Studios team themselves. Bill Gerber (Gran Torino) will produce the futuristic tale about a group of soldiers that “must save the day when humanity’s robotic defense force is disabled.” They pitched the story to over 1,000 hopeful writers and will pick their favorite from the bunch.
Will you see any of these movies when they hit theaters?