Genre: Horror.
Studio:
Dreamworks SKG.
Production Company:
Image Movers Production.
Project Phase: In Development.
Who's In It:
Harrison Ford; Michelle Pfeiffer.
Who's Making It:
Robert Zemeckis (Director); Clark Gregg (Screenwriter); Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis (Producers);
based on an idea by Steven Spielberg.
Premise: A college professor becomes entwined in a murder mystery with ghostly elements.
Release Date: Christmas 1999 or Summer 2000.
Comments: The most popular actor of the century teams-up with one of the top directors of pop culture films. Expect this one to perform very well at the box office if the players remain at their posts.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft submitted by CA's 'Ghost of Summer Past', 'Deadpool'.]
June 4, 1998... Variety reports that Harrison Ford has agreed to star for director Robert Zemeckis in this feature. Variety describes the film as a top secret supernatural project loosely pegged for a mid-1999 shoot at DreamWorks. The film is being produced by Image Movers, Zemeckis' production company formed with his former CAA agent Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey.
While a Zemeckis spokesman acknowledged the project is one of several Image Movers is developing, he denied Zemeckis has decided on his next directing effort. But sources said Ford has cleared room in his schedule for this project, something a star of his stature would not do if this ghost movie were merely an apparition.
The prospective first pairing of the actor and director automatically becomes a seismic event, since they collectively have had a hand in some of the biggest grossing films of the last two decades, with Zemeckis most recently hitting big with Forrest Gump and Ford with Air Force One.
Ford is booked to star this fall with Kristin Scott Thomas in the Sidney Pollack-directed Columbia film Random Hearts. Image Movers has moved to buy a second project from Gregg, an untitled pitch which will pay the scribe a healthy six-figure sum, sources said. [Parapsychological reporting done by 'Deadpool'; originally appeared in Variety.]
August 31, 1998... Our scooper reports that the production team of this movie, including Robert Zemeckis, have been scouting locations in Vermont for this picture. Right now they're looking for a house that overlooks a lake. Also overheard was the mention that Michelle Pfeiffer is being considering as the female lead, playing Harrison Ford's wife. [Ghosthunting services provided by 'st7i9'.]
November 5, 1998... Michelle Pfeiffer has now reportedly signed on to the project and production is expected to kick off next September. [Originally appeared in Variety; reported by 'bjudd,' 'masque,' 'st7i9']
Also, Zemeckis and his partner in Image Movers, Jack Rapke, have been added to the crew list as producers. [Originally appeared in Variety; reported by DJ]
November 5, 1998... Michelle Pfeiffer has now signed on to the project and production is expected to kick off next September. [Originally appeared in Variety; reported by 'bjudd,' 'masque,' 'st7i9'.]