SF GRANDMASTER ELLISON GETS NEW FILM

In 1975 Harlan Ellison's prize-winning novella, Vic and Blood, was filmed as A BOY AND HIS DOG. He's written a few things since then and garnered a few more awards. In fact the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that Harlan Ellison will be named Grand Master at next year's Nebula Awards Weekend in Tempe, Arizona, May 4-7, 2006.

His work DREAM CORRIDOR is part of a recent co-production deal between Image Entertainment and Dark Horse to finance films. Seven projects are in production for the first slate of films including one helmed by John Landis and cult favorite Bruce Campbell, another starring Tom Sizemore and Edward James Olmos and the one written and hosted by Harlan Ellison, according to DVDexclusive.com

These are in various stages of production for either theatrical or DVD distribution and there are five others in development. Landis will direct Gone, a haunted house tale set to begin lensing in June. Ellison's project is the Twilight Zone-type
anthology Dream Corridor, on which preproduction is set for early 2006.

Campbell (Evil Dead, Army of Darkness) also will star as himself in My Name is Bruce, a comedy/horror film set to start rolling in January in which he is kidnapped from the set of a "B" horror movie and forced to play the role of his movie character.

Sizemore and Olmos will star in Splinter, about a cop on the skids who teams up with an idealistic young female cop to stop the murder of gang members.