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TELEPHONE I *Plus my state sales tax and a one-time charge of #( 1992 FM 12135-196 S3, for shipping and handling. e also has an option on Asimov's later SEPTEMBER 1992 #182 Business & Editorial Offices: Foundation novels. 475 Park Avenue South Close Encounters producer Michael New York, NY 10016 Phillips once had plans for a film version of Foundation. Those contracts expired President/Publisher NORMAN JACOBS long ago, but Phillips—currently repre- NEXT STOP: CAMELOT sented in theaters with Mom & Dad Save Executive Vice President RITA EISENSTEIN Terry Gilliam begins tripping through the World—has rights to Asimov's The time again shortly. The veteran End of Eternity (which he hopes to film). Associate Publisher fantasy filmmaker, who previously toured Children's book writer/illustrator MILBURN SMITH the past with the Time Bandits, has a Maurice Sendak has also joined the TriStar v.p./Circulation Director ART SCHULKIN specific destination in mind: Camelot. family. With partner John Carls, Sendak He'll direct the latest film version of will produce movies for TriStar, presum- Creative Director W.R. Mark Twain's classic fantasy A ably based on his own works. The irony MOHALLEY Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's here is that TriStar released Labyrinth, a Editor Court. The script's by Karate Kid scribe movie that an annoyed Sendak felt had DAVID MCDONNELL Robert 'Mark Kamen, who also co-wrote been heavily influenced by his own classic Managing Editor Lethal Weapon 3 and The Punisher book, Where the Wild Things Are. MICHAEL MCAVENNIE (CS#7). Jerry (Oh. God!) Weintraub Updates: The Sci-Fi Channel has ac- Special Effects Editor produces. Lensing may begin in quired a half-dozen more genre series. DAVID HUTCHISON September. These latest additions are War of the Contributing Editors Worlds, The Powers Matthew Star, Kids Art: Copyright 1992 Paramount Pictures Corp. of The ANTHONY TIMPONE Immortal, The Magician, Future Cop and MICHAEL CINCOLD Friday the 1 3th: The Series. The Channel Mr i Consultants also plans to produce a dozen all-new SF LIA PELOSI TV movies yearly. TOM WEAVER MAUREEN MCTICUE For Film Fantasy Calendar this issue, KERRY O'QUINN see page 16. Character Castings: Next Generation's Art Director Colm Meaney gets villainous in the up- JIM MCLERNON coming Under Siege. Working with fellow Art staff bad guys Tommy Lee Jones (of Lonesome CALVIN LEE Dove) and Gary (Lethal Weapon) Busey, he YVONNE JANG tries to hijack the battleship U.S.S. Mis- MATION, Senior Correspondent AVAST! souri and its nuclear arsenal. Fortunately, STEVE SWIRES there's a hero of sorts around to stop them: They're Bebe's Kids—and they're West Coast Correspondent Steven animated in the all-new film featuring Seagal. MARC SHAPIRO youngsters with Patrick Stewart, meanwhile, will play awesome imaginations British Correspondent and (as shown here) piratical intentions. that zillionaire adventurer Daddy Warbucks ADAM PIRANI It's now playing. in that long, long-planned non-musical Canadian Correspondent sequel to 1982's Annie. Once nicknamed PETER BLOCH-HANSEN Genre People: While Batman Returns "Raiders of the Lost Annie," this follow- writer Dan Waters toils on an adaptation of up, which emphasizes the action-adventure Typesetter Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange aspects of the famed Harold Gray comic PAUL HALLASY Land, work is proceeding on another clas- strip, is now known as Annie and the Financial Director: Joan Baetz Marketing Director: Frank M. Rosner sic novel. co-writer Terror. Lewis (Moonraker) SF Batman Sam Castle of Circulation Manager: Maria Damiani Haram is now scripting a film version of Gilbert directs from a script by Brad Assistants: Steve Jacobs. Peter Hernandez, Kim Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming. Watson. Debbie Irwin, Sylvia Gimenez, Dee Erwine. Correspondents: (LA) Mike Clark, Kyle Counts, Bill More than a decade ago, Brian De Palma Production begins next spring. Florence, Lee Goldberg, Pat Jankiewicz, Jean-Marc & also attempted an adaptation, as did a pre- Sequels: They're already planning the Randy Lofficier, Bill Warren: (NY) Eddie Berganza, Jami Bernard, Robert Creenberger. Edward Gross, Ian fame writer named Oliver Stone. sequel, though they haven't (re)done the Spelling, Lynne Stephens, Dan Yakir: (Chicago) Jean Meanwhile, film rights to Isaac first film yet. Turner Entertainment, which Airey, Kim Howard Johnson; (Boston) Will Murray; (TX) T.W. Knowles II; (FL) Bill Wilson; (WV) John Savers; Asimov's Foundation trilogy have been owns most classic films, has autho- MGM (Canada) Mark Phillips; (England) Stan Nicholls; (inter) acquired by TriStar Pictures and producers rized a remake of the SF classic Forbidden George Kochell, Michael J. Wolff; (Creature) Mike Chuck Roven and Robert Cavallo (whose Planet. The screenplay's by Nelson Fisher; (Art) Kevin Brockschmidt, Leah Rosenthal. Contributors: Robert Asprin, Sandra Brandenburg, credits include Cadillac Man and Final Gidding. And believe it or not, producer Lloyd Bridges, Tamara Bryant, Eric Caidin, Lawrence Conley, Paul Dellinger, Analysis). No writers or director hay,e yet Lindsay Dunlap is already projecting a se- Laurence de Souza, Doug Diamond, Terry Erdmann, Marci Galea, Ron Goulart, been hired, with plans at present calling quel to this remake. Howard Green, Peter Greenwood, Regina Gruss. for one film based on the triloev. 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