Upcoming fantastical alternate history monster movie (try saying that five times fast) HERE THERE BE MONSTERS has lost its director.
Robert Zemeckis, left, who brought us such classics as the BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy and WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, is no longer ‘officially involved’ in the project, according to producer Todd Lieberman.
The film follows the story of naval officer John Paul Jones during the American Revolution, but with a subtle twist. Instead of being a historically accurate, powerful biopic created purely to win a few Oscars, scriptwriter Brian Helgeland has chucked in a bunch of big, scary sea monsters.
While still in the very early stages of pre-production, Lieberman already has eyes set on an actor to play Jones: ‘I want to keep working with Christian Bale. He was so good in THE FIGHTER and is such an awesome actor, I’ll put him in anything.
‘It could be a great, historical, epic, fun, sea monster movie – something I’ve never done before.’ So basically, it’s Batman vs. The Loch Ness Monster.
One to watch out for, then.
Source: SFX
