Alan Donnes
Spoof of sword-and-sandal flicks such as “Gladiator,” “300″ and “Troy.” Following in the long tradition of National Lampoon, this ballsy comedy takes aim at “sword and sandal” movies of every era, with a special nod of the feathered helmet to historical epics such as 300, Gladiator, Troy, and Braveheart.
This acclaimed Oliver Stone drama presents the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison. When Garrison begins to doubt conventional thinking on the murder, he faces government resistance, and, after the killing of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, he closes the case. Later, however, Garrison reopens the investigation, finding evidence of an extensive conspiracy behind Kennedy's death.
This new reimagining will combine John W. Campbell's classic story "Who Goes There?" (1938) with elements drawn from RKO’s "The Thing From Another World" (1951), John Carpenter’s classic "The Thing" (1982), and the long-lost additional chapters of Campbell's story, recently published as the novel "Frozen Hell" (2019).
