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Voltron Gets Director
08/29/2008
The Voltron movie is officially going to happen via Relativity Pictures, and now a director has been attached.
His name?
Max Makowski. You'd know him from…uh…that…no…um….
…….er…Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Sadly, that's not a joke.
Here's a bio, courtesy of Latino Review:
Max Makowski was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but has lived all over the world in countries such as England, the Philippines, Peru, Bahrain, the U.S.A, Germany, Cuba, and Hong Kong where he became a director, producer, writer, editor, and cameraman for Salon Films as well as CNBC and NBC Asia - where he also produced the TODAY SHOW for the Asian market. Max's credits include the movies The Pigeon Egg Strategy (premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 1998), One Last Dance (premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and went on to Cannes), and television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (2003) and The Agency (2005). He is also working on writing and directing a Universal film based on the Japanese movie Shinobi, a Studio Canal film based on Le Professionnel, and he has rewritten the screenplay for the bigscreen version of Hawaii Five-O. Max also will direct the bigscreen adaptation of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu which revolved around a Shaolin monk forced to flee to the Wild West, where he used his martial arts skills to fend off various evildoers.
OK, Kung Fu (the orginal series with David Carradine) was badass. "Take the stone…from my hand…Grasshoppah…"
I digress. I've never heard of this guy, and I'm sure you haven't either. And the fact that the only credit most of us are going to recognize is Queer Eye??? That's even more disturbing. Still, rumor has it that he's on the same level of imagination and creative direction as Zach "300 and Watchmen" Snyder, so we'll see how it plays out…
08/29/2008
The Voltron movie is officially going to happen via Relativity Pictures, and now a director has been attached.
His name?
Max Makowski. You'd know him from…uh…that…no…um….
…….er…Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Sadly, that's not a joke.
Here's a bio, courtesy of Latino Review:
Max Makowski was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but has lived all over the world in countries such as England, the Philippines, Peru, Bahrain, the U.S.A, Germany, Cuba, and Hong Kong where he became a director, producer, writer, editor, and cameraman for Salon Films as well as CNBC and NBC Asia - where he also produced the TODAY SHOW for the Asian market. Max's credits include the movies The Pigeon Egg Strategy (premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 1998), One Last Dance (premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2006 and went on to Cannes), and television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (2003) and The Agency (2005). He is also working on writing and directing a Universal film based on the Japanese movie Shinobi, a Studio Canal film based on Le Professionnel, and he has rewritten the screenplay for the bigscreen version of Hawaii Five-O. Max also will direct the bigscreen adaptation of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu which revolved around a Shaolin monk forced to flee to the Wild West, where he used his martial arts skills to fend off various evildoers.
OK, Kung Fu (the orginal series with David Carradine) was badass. "Take the stone…from my hand…Grasshoppah…"
I digress. I've never heard of this guy, and I'm sure you haven't either. And the fact that the only credit most of us are going to recognize is Queer Eye??? That's even more disturbing. Still, rumor has it that he's on the same level of imagination and creative direction as Zach "300 and Watchmen" Snyder, so we'll see how it plays out…
