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  • Towne climbing THE 39 STEPS on television

    by Patrick Sauriol    (Tue 12-23-2003)

    Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne (CHINATOWN) will write and direct a television version of THE 39 STEPS, based on a novel by John Buchan. The most famous version of the property was a 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that starred Robert Donat...

  • Mission: Impossible 3

    by Development Heck    (Wed 08-31-2005)

    ...Darabont, Robert Towne (Screenwriters); Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner (Producers); J.J. Abrams (Director); based upon the television series Mission: Impossible created by Bruce Geller. Premise: Unknown. Release Date: 2006Comments: M:I 2 made $93 million dol...

  • MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II

    by Steve Biodrowski    (Tue 05-23-2000)

    ...ormidable Robert Towne, he of Chinatown fame). The story clunks along at a tedious pace that enervates rather than energizes viewers, and when the action finally breaks out, you have to rouse yourself back into a state of awareness in order to apprecia...

  • OUTER LIMITS EBONITE INTERROGATOR

    by JEFF BOND    (Sat 07-06-2002)

    ...YCHO) and Robert Towne (CHINATOWN). THE OUTER LIMITS had the advantage of a higher production budget and the imaginative contributions of makeup maestros Fred Phillips (STAR TREK) and John Chambers (PLANET OF THE APES) and special effects technicians W...

  • Yakuza, The

    by Karl Schneider    (Fri 01-19-2007)

    Premise:  The original film, which was written by the powerful twosome of Robert Towne and Paul Schrader, dealt with a man who returns to Japan after a lengthy absence to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter, ensuing in samurai swords slashing and gu...

  • Paramount wants to BEAT THE DEVIL

    by Christopher Allan Smith    (Tue 02-12-2002)

    Paramount Pictures has snagged the rights to CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL on behalf of legendary writer/director Robert Towne (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, CHINATOWN).Producing for the studio is Tom Cruise's Cruise/Wagner Productions, which helped bring Towne's great b...

  • DUKES' Gerber to Slash into YAKUZA Remake

    by News Editor    (Fri 08-12-2005)

    ...rader and Robert Towne. The script was based on a story by Leonard Schrader.The remake will be set in contemporary times and also will reflect a more multiethnic Japan.

  • Genre Films 2000: A Preview of Things To Come

    by Steve Biodrowski    (Thu 01-27-2000)

    ... scripter Robert Towne, while action genius John Woo takes over the directing reigns from Brian DePalma. This sounds like fun, but there have been reports of production problems that slightly dampen our enthusiasm. Anticipation scale: 8. Box office: $1...

  • THE OUTER LIMITS: THE ORIGINAL SERIES VOL. 1

    by JEFF BOND    (Wed 09-25-2002)

    ...eenwriter Robert Towne, in which an alienated U.S. government agent is hired to infiltrate an invading extraterrestrial spaceshipand finds himself drawn to the beings from outer space.With 32 episodes in immaculate black and white transfers it might se...

  • Darabont accepts IMPOSSIBLE mission

    by Patrick Sauriol    (Wed 03-24-2004)

    After first appearing at Ain't It Cool News as a rumor, now The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed Frank Darabont has been hired to write the new script for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3. Robert Towne had been the writer working on M:I 3 for director Joe Carnahan (...

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