Pressman talks 'Crow,' 'Bloodsport'

'The Moth Diaries'Robert Mark Kamen will deliver a script for Philip Noyce's "Bloodsport" within per month, producer Edward R. Pressman told Variety about the Lido.Pressman reaches the Venice Film Festival to tubthump "The Moth Journals," which world preemed from Competition. Pressman was professional producer, his second production with "Moth" director Mary Harron after "American Psycho."However the veteran producer also provided a standing rundown on the trio of films: "Bloodsport," "The Crow" and "Such a Wonderful World."The talent attached as well as their scale indicates the soft-spoken New Yorker continues to be firing on all cylinders and fighting to create the "ambitious and origianl" films -- his description of "Bloodsport" -- which have been Pressman's trademark for 4 decades.InchBloodsport" is allocated around $sixty five million-$75 million, Pressman stated on Monday. The participation of Noyce and author Kamen, Luc Besson's longtime co-scribe ("The 5th Element," "Taken") was introduced at Cannes in May, although not a lot more.Alberto Lensi is creating with Pressman, Pressman stated about the Croisette. The storyline had an Afghanistan war vet, tired of violence, retreating to South america, simply to engage in a fighting techinques contest.Setup at New You are able to-and L.A.-based Edward Pressman Prods., "Bloodsport" doesn't have distribution obligations.Kamen's script, however, will allow "Bloodsport" to become put available on the market.InchThis really is a significant franchise project which we has desired to keep under systems until it's ready," Pressman stated at Venice.Noyce and Kamen are presently in Manaus, location scouting and researching for that script.Enviromentalist Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, who required John Boorman in to the Amazon . com for "Emerald Forest," is counseling.Noyce's reboot is really a "total reinvention" of cult 1988 actioner "Bloodsport," with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pressman stated."The initial 'Bloodsport' would be a ring-set tournament," Pressman stated. Noyce's is going to be "much more of a road movie, an outing.Inch Noyce and Kamen will even scout in Rio p Janeiro and Bahia, in northern South america.Pressman recognized it might be logical to co-produce "Bloodsport" with South america. Daniel Bernhardt, star of "Bloodsport 2" (1996) and Mark DiSalle, producer from the original 1988 "Bloodsport," professional produce.Meanwhile, "Watchmen's" Alex Tse has shipped "within the last 48 hrs" the script for Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's "The Crow," another reinvention, this time around of Alex Proyas' 1994 original. "The Crow" is created by Pressman, Spain's Apaches Entertainment and Relativity, that also finances.Pressman is joining up with France's Legende Pictures, headed by Alain Goldman -- producer of "Casino" and "La vie en rose" -- to create Louis Remedy biopic "Such a Wonderful World!," directed by and starring Forest Whitaker, and today in development. Gaumont includes a stake in Legende.Created by Karine Martin at Canada's Mediamax, and David Collins for Ireland's Samson Films, with financing from Canada's Telefilm and also the Irish Film Board, "The Moth Journals," "goes beyond genre," Pressman stated. "The film is much more similar to Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion' or John P Palma's 'Carrie,' both about youthful ladies and with a feeling of paranoia."Transcending genre is certainly not new for Pressman who established P Palma by creating the helmer's "Siblings" in 1973."Bloodsport" will eat the plight of Brazil's indigenous peoples, and become "elevated in scale, emotional impact and political context," Pressman guaranteed. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com