Peter Spierig

The Dark Crystal Gets a 3-D Sequel

Looks like Tron:Legacy isn't the only sequel to arrive 27 years later. Tron opened in 1982 along with The Dark Crystal, and while Tron: Legacy will enter theaters first, Dark Crystal is also getting a second installment, also in 3-D.

Collider reports that The Jim Henson Company will head to Australia to shoot the sequel, Power of the Dark Crystal. The movie will be one of the biggest projects to be produced in the country. Stepping in for director Frank Oz will be Australian sibling directors Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig, whose most recent movie was the vampire flick Daybreakers. Another Australian, Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge) wrote the screenplay based on an original script by Annette Duffy and David Odell.

• The Dark Crystal
• Michael Spierig
• Peter Spierig
• Jim Henson
• Craig Pearce
• David Odell

The Daybreakers Directors Talk About Their Upcoming Sci-Fi Projects

The science fiction/horror blend Daybreakers didn't have a terrible opening weekend, fighting through Avatar's dominance to grab fourth place. The movie's writers-directors, Australian twins Michael and Peter Spierig, are already planning two more sci-fi-related project, including a remake of Captain Blood, an Errol Flynn sea adventure movie from 1935 that the brothers told io9 they plan to turn into a "space pirate movie." Michael admitted they were currently writing the script.

We're working on Captain Blood, at the moment.we're still developing the script with Warner Brothers at the moment. We've got a first draft of it and it's good. We're still working on it. It might still be a while before it goes into production, if it goes into production at all.

The brothers also talked about their other, more mysterious sci-fi project, which is currently untitled, though that's not the only thing the brothers are keeping secret.

Peter: We've been writing a script for a year now that's another science-fiction film as well. It's a period film it's set largely in the '40s. We've spent a lot of time researching, just an enormous amountof time. We've almost over-researched, we probably need to put some of the research away and get out of the script for a moment.

Michael: It's taking elements of history and spinning it, or changing it. Or taking elements of history and asking, "what if?" Daybreakers is a what if — what if everybody was a vampire? How would they live? This is very much a "what if" as well, and asks, "What if this didn't happen, and this happens instead?" Ah, that's all I'm saying.

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• Daybreakers
• Michael Spierig
• Peter Spierig

New Daybreakers Poster, Stills, and TV Spot

With The Twilight Saga: New Moon opening this weekend, Lionsgate wants to capitalize on the vampire pandemonium to promote its forthcoming vampire flick, Daybreakers.

Starring Willem Dafoe and Ethan Hawke, Daybreakers is a darker kind of vampire movie than New Moon. Set in 2019, vampires have taken over and hunt humans for food. The only problem is, humans are becoming scarce. Amidst the vampire's need to farm humans for their blood, a covert group of vampires makes a discovery that may save the human race.

Written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig (Undead), Daybreakers won't be released until January 8, 2010. That leaves a few months to enjoy the new photos, poster, and TV spot, which acts as a public service announcement for vampires to turn in human survivors. Check it out below.

• Daybreakers
• Ethan Hawke
• Willem Dafoe
• Peter Spierig
• Michael Spierig