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SIMON WEST TO
PRODUCE MR MYSTERIOUS
Copyright 2002 www.variety.com
[ February 6th 2002 ]
Production
shingle RAW Entertainment has paid low- against
mid-six figures to pick up Brandon Bodie Beaver's
spec script Mr. Mysterious, with Simon West's
Wychwood Prods. attached to produce.
The gothic
action/fantasy, set in the 1880s, concerns a blind,
rogueish magician and his traveling troupe of
carnival performers who are forced to return to
London to stop an evil sorcerer from implementing
an ancient alchemist's plan to plague the world
with black magic.
West
most recently directed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
for Paramount Pictures. He also was one of the
executive producers on Ridley Scott's Black Hawk
Down. L.A.-based RAW is in post-production on
the Newman/Tooley production Diablo starring Vin
Diesel.
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