Charles Fort to Bust Ghosts for Universal
Steve Barton
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The Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/robert-zemeckis-plotting-spooky-charles-245152
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Well now, it may not be who we thought it would be, but at least one studio is getting back into the ghostbustin’ business in a new film based upon one of the world’s foremost authorities on the paranormal. Read on for the info!
According to THR Universal Pictures is plotting a spooky feature called Charles Fort with producer Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos. Fort, which is being described by some who know the material as a “period Ghostbusters,” is the first project set up under Zemeckis and his Imagemovers’ newly minted first-look deal with the studio.
Charles Fort was an early-twentieth-century American researcher and writer whose focus was “anomalous phenomena” and the unexplained. Books Fort wrote such as The Book of the Damned (1919) and New Lands (1923) were some of the first to explore everything from levitation and teleportation to alien abduction and other paranormal pursuits. Fort was essentially a curious skeptic who enjoyed collecting data to support explanations for things that he felt were no less possible than the scientifically accepted ones.
Dark Horse Comics published a four-issue series in 2002 titled Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained, which turned Fort into an adventurous investigator tangling with aliens and murderers in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City.
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