Raimi producing fantasy for Columbia

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Source: Hollywood Reporter

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Columbia Pictures has pre-emptively picked up a action-adventure from writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift for Sam Raimi and Josh Donen to produce through their Buckaroo Entertainment banner.

The project, whose title is being kept under lock and key, is described as an all-ages fantasy movie with franchise potential that the studio is hoping to fast track. It centers on a cynical guy from New York who is forced to go to a land untouched by modern civilization to save a village and a princess from fiendish fairy tale creatures.

It doesn't look like the project will be a directorial vehicle for Raimi.