The Librarian [Archive]

Agent Pat (Agentpat)

05-26-2004, 02:31 PM

With the exception of the Superman dig &#40;grrrr, Dean! grrrr LOL&#41;, this sounds interesting... In yesterday&#39;s Daily Variety &#40;5/25/04&#41; Wyle gets &#39;Librarian&#39; card Cabler looks to make trio of pix with &#39;ER&#39; star By MICHAEL FLEMING Dean Devlin&#39;s Electric banner has set up action adventure pic &#34;The Librarian&#34; at TNT with Noah Wyle playing the title character. &#34;Around the World in 80 Days&#34; scribe David Titcher wrote the telepic and will co-produce with Electric execs Marc Roskin and Kearie Peak. Devlin will exec produce and the pic will be directed by Peter Winther, who did second unit directing work on Devlin-produced films &#34;The Patriot and &#34;Godzilla.&#34; The pic will air later this year, and the hope is to spawn a series of three films toplined by the &#34;ER&#34; star. &#34;Dean&#39;s pitch was a refreshing take on the hero story,&#34; TNT senior veep of original programming Michael Wright said. &#34;Instead of a muscle-bound, spandex-clad superman, we get an insecure but brilliant guy who thinks he&#39;s taking a safe job as a librarian, but instead gets taken on a ride in a world we&#39;d like to believe exists.&#34; The Librarian&#39;s responsibility is a repository of artifacts, which contain magical powers. When an artifact is checked out unexpectedly, the librarian must recover it and he enlists a young female martial arts expert who becomes the muscle in the relationship. &#34;I actually do get to throw a punch in the last act, but I thought that the chance to be the world&#39;s first cerebral superhero was too good to pass up,&#34; said Wyle, who&#39;ll shoot the film before returning for his 11th season of &#34;ER,&#34; the final doctor rotation under his latest contract extension. Wyle, the &#34;ER&#34; cast member with the longest tenure, doesn&#39;t know if he will be back when that deal expires. &#34;Alan Alda went 11 seasons with &#39;MASH,&#39; so there seems a certain doctor symmetry there,&#34; he said. &#34;It&#39;ll be a tough job to leave if I decide to do that, because the show has retained its vitality and the money is fantastic. This seemed like a good opportunity because I liked movies Dean has made and he promised me he would be present throughout the shoot and involved in every aspect.&#34; Devlin, who just produced the David Ellis-directed &#34;Cellular&#34; for New Line, said TNT has an option to make more episodes, with hopes they can become an annual occurrence. The project is ambitious for television, he said, with 250 special effects shots in the planning. That made Winther an easy choice, said Devlin, who shared second unit directing chores with him on &#34;Independence Day,&#34; the pic directed by Devlin&#39;s former partner, Roland Emmerich.

Electric Goose (Egg)

05-27-2004, 04:30 PM

And the race is on!! A friend of mine is working on a treatment for Friday the 13th: The Series...

F13 (F13)

05-27-2004, 06:21 PM

Nooo, I MUST know more!!!! Will Ryan&#39;s jumper with ducks on make a cameo appearance? Will Micki&#39;s hair still be as big?

The Wizard of Oz (Mike)

05-27-2004, 11:30 PM

What, they&#39;re bringing the series back?

Foxtrot X-Ray (Angillas)

05-28-2004, 11:05 AM

Why is it that whenever I hear the word &#34;Librarian&#34; the word &#34;Ook!&#34; pops into my mind?? Probably the same reason the word &#34;Luggage&#34; invokes images of large teath &amp; hundreds of little legs.

The Wizard of Oz (Mike)

05-31-2004, 10:28 PM

would you believe... you met a librarian who reminded you of a member of the Addams family or you met Carolyn Jones in a library? &#40;as many have since 1983&#41;

The Wizard of Oz (Mike)

05-31-2004, 10:33 PM

That explains the &#34;Ook! For the luggage problem, try keeping away from groups of midgets going on vacation.

Foxtrot X-Ray (Angillas)

06-01-2004, 07:57 AM

Actually, I was sneaking in a comment on one of my favorite book series&#39; Terry Pratchett&#39;s DISCWORLD series. The Librarian of the Unseen University was once Human, but by Magical accident was transformed into an Orangutan &#40;Which he likes better &amp; had actively resisted any attempts to restore him to Human Form&#41; &#34;Ook&#34; The Luggage once belonged to Discworld&#39;s first Tourist, Twoflower. It&#39;s a rather large travel trunk made from Sapient Pearwood that actively discourages any attempt to harm it&#39;s owner. Usually by EATING anyone it deems threatening. Pratchet is to Fantasy what Douglass Adams is to Sci-Fi. But back on topic, The Librarian sounds rather interesting.. I&#39;ll have to keep an eye open.

Foxtrot X-Ray (Angillas)

06-01-2004, 08:19 AM

Actually, I was sneaking in a comment on one of my favorite book series&#39; Terry Pratchett&#39;s DISCWORLD series. The Librarian of the Unseen University was once Human, but by Magical accident was transformed into an Orangutan &#40;Which he likes better &amp; had actively resisted any attempts to restore him to Human Form&#41; &#34;Ook&#34; The Luggage once belonged to Discworld&#39;s first Tourist, Twoflower. It&#39;s a rather large travel trunk made from Sapient Pearwood that actively discourages any attempt to harm it&#39;s owner. Usually by EATING anyone it deems threatening. Pratchet is to Fantasy what Douglass Adams is to Sci-Fi. But back on topic, The Librarian sounds rather interesting.. I&#39;ll have to keep an eye open.