The 51st State

Genre: Unknown.

Studio: Unknown.
Production Company: Addis-Wechsler/Focus Films

Project Phase: Development Hell.

Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet.
Who's Making It: Uli Edel (Director); Stel Pavlou (Screenwriter); Samuel L. Jackson (Producer).

Premise: The story of a designer drug and its introduction into the Liverpool rave scene.

Release Date: Unknown.

Comments: None.

Rumors: Unknown.

Scoop Feedback:

[Page draft submitted by 'Widgett'.]

July 23, 1998... This is what we've been scooped. Whether it'll all turn out this way or not...we'll wait and see.

We've been told to keep a close eye on the trades next week, especially paying attention for news emerging from the Montreal Film Festival.

Sometime soon there's supposed to be an announcement concerning this project. We've been told by our scooper that the information passed on to us was "95% in the bag", so to speak.

The scooper said that Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlysle, Ray Winston and Eric Cantona will star in this picture. Noel Gallagher (from Oasis) will be in a cameo and will contribute a musical track for the film. Shooting commences in April 1999. Industry Entertainment (formerly Addis Wechsler), Focus Films and Fifty First Films are producing the picture, with Alliance providing the distribution (soon to be known as Alliance-Atlantis, as Canada's two main film distributors have announced their intention to merge.)

Finally, our scooper departed with this final nugget of info: "It looks like a comedic thriller." [Sent in by 'The Transformed Man'.]



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