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When Worlds Collide

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December 6, 2005
Sommers has Worlds Collide

Stephen Sommers has been confirmed as director/writer for the remake of the 1951 film When Worlds Collide. Steven Spielberg will produce. Paramount will produce the project as an upcoming tentpole release.
Source: Variety





August 29, 2005
Spielberg sees Worlds Collide

Steven Spielberg has come aboard to produce a remake of When Worlds Collide for Paramount. He replaces Stephen Sommers, who had departed the project as producer/writer/director earlier this year to instead go to Fox's A Night at the Museum. Currently, it is unknown whether Spielberg is going to direct WWC. The original film was released in 1951 and was the inspiration for such movies as Deep Impact and Armageddon.
Source: Variety





April 11, 2005
Sommers is out of this World

Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) is set to write and direct a re-imagining of When Worlds Collide for Paramount Pictures. In the original 1951 film, scientists learn that another planet will be careening dangerously close to the Earth, and organize plans for a small group of humans to leave the planet before the impending collision that is bound to be extremely deadly. Sommers is expected to begin working on the screenplay immediately.
Source: Variety

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