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Stone Village Develops 'Palace of the End' LOS ANGELES – January 18th, 2006 – Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures has acquired the remake rights to Australian artist George Gittoes’s film documentaries “Soundtrack to War” and “Rampage.” Stone Village intends to make an original feature film based on these 2 documentaries tentatively titled Palace of the End. The original film will be based on the lives of 2 co-ed soldiers from Miami featured in the documentaries who share an impossible, Romeo and Juliet like love, following them from the battlefields of Iraq to the streets of Miami and back. “Soundtrack to War” aired on VH-1 in August of 2004, combines music by American soldiers and disturbing pictures of war, and is known for being Michael Moore’s source for Iraq war footage in “Farenheit 911.” The doc will be released on DVD by Universal in March. Gittoes is currently posting the “Rampage” doc in Australia, about 3 brothers who are up and coming hip-hop music talents and the progress of their careers while the eldest brother goes off to war in Iraq. The documentary will screen in Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama in February. “These soldier’s amazing true story of life imitating art has to be told, and should attract a great screenwriter and filmmaker. I am excited about working with George, who is an incredibly talented artist and lives a fascinating life,” said Steindorff. Gittoes, a 30 year veteran war correspondent, who has covered every major global conflict since Vietnam, is a world renowned sculptor and painter whose works have shown in museums and galleries around the world. Steindorff will produce the film with George Gittoes; Gabrielle Dalton will Co-Produce. Stone Village execs. Dylan Russell and Valeska Ramet will oversee development of the feature film. Steindorff previously obtained rights to Jules Dassin-directed “Rififi” for a remake starring Al Pacino, to be directed by Harold Becker, and the Akira Kurosawa-directed "Ikiru", set up at DreamWorks, scripted by Richard Price and to be directed by Jim Sheridan. |
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