Studio:
Miramax.
Production Company:
Dimension Films.
Project Phase: In Development.
Who's In It:
Samuel L. Jackson.
Who's Making It:
Greg Widen (Screenwriter); Samuel L. Jackson, Eli Selden, Julie Yorn (Producers); based on a novella by
Harlan Ellison.
Premise: A prisoner, gifted with the ability to 'mind jump' into the thoughts of others, jumps into the head of a serial killer awaiting sentence on death row.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: Following the success of the first movie he produced, Eve's Bayou, Jackson's got projects set up all over Tinseltown. We haven't read the story this piece is based on but one thing's for sure: when it's from Ellison's imagination it's bound to deliver.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[In-between work shifts in the prison cafeteria, this page was drafted submitted by the convict 'Deadpool'.]
September 22, 1998... Some nice non-spoilers info on the story:
"The story was published in Omni several years back. (I may be wrong on the magazine, though.) The lead character was a mind-jumper, but found the gift to be more of a curse, since he didn't have much control over how intense the jumps were, and could easily be swamped by someone else's train of thought. He encounters someone like the villain in Fallen, a psychopath who jumps into other people to commit gruesome murders. The psycho frames him, and then takes up with the love interest, on whom the lead has had a crush but has never advanced (he's black, she's white). But how can an already-convicted man set things straight en route to the electric chair?" [Scoop provided by 'tramplyn'.]