Genre: Drama.
Studio:
Tri-Star Pictures.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase: In Development.
Who's In It:
John Travolta (Quoyle) and Kelly Preston (if they're still in it).
Who's Making It: Lasse Hallstrom (Director); Beth Henley (Screenwriter; Linda
Goldstein Knowlton (Producer); based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx.
Premise: After his two-timing wife is killed in a car crash, a newspaperman named Quoyle moves his aunt and two daughters to his ancestral home on the stark Newfoundland coast. In Killick-Claw, Quoyle finds a job writing the shipping news for a local paper and confronts his private demons as he struggles to make a happy family life.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: Shipping News was on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists for more than 40 weeks. Proulx won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the 1993 National Book Award for fiction and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize for his novel.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft submitted by 'Deadpool'.]
March 20, 1998... In his interview on The Tonight Show, John Travolta mentioned that it he might team-up on the big screen with his wife Kelly Preston. One of two projects mentioned was Shipping News, the other being Paramount's The General Daughter's, his next project after completing A Civil Action. [Scoop provided by 'Deadpool'.] March 24, 1998... Thanks to a Newfoundland scooper, we'll soon learn more about what a 'killick' is. "It's a homemade anchor made with a rock and wood, Stephen Churchill writes to us. "aAnd there's no such place, [as Killick-Claw in Newfoundland] really....but then, that's hardly surprising." Ah, the magic of Hollywood, right Stephen? [Thanks to our shipmate Stephen Churchill. You can sit at the captain's table anytime, arrrr.]
January 5, 1999... Some news hot off the press: "An Atlantic Canadian newspaper, 'The Chronicle Herald,' reports in its entertainment section that John Travolta and Kelly Preston, who was apparantly also involved with the project, may have pulled out of filming. It was set to begin filming in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Canada 1st quarter 1999, but Travolta was said to have been angry over the fact that the filming was taking place there and not in Maine. (Where Travolta owns a house)" [Scoop provided by 'The Angry Mr Duck'.]