{"id":22183,"date":"2014-09-25T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=22183"},"modified":"2014-09-27T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T16:10:45","slug":"tobey-maguire-making-a-sci-fi-garden-of-eden-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/09\/tobey-maguire-making-a-sci-fi-garden-of-eden-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"Tobey Maguire making a sci-fi Garden of Eden movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/tobeymaguire.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2014\/09\/tobeymaguire-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"tobeymaguire\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22185\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracking-board.com\/tb-exclusive-sony-goes-big-for-sci-fi-spec-eden-in-bidding-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Tracking Board<\/a> reports that Sony Pictures has acquired a sci-fi script called <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/eden-project\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Eden Project<\/a><\/i> for Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer Meyer to produce. The film, written by Christina Hodson, is described as \u201ca grounded sci-fi take on the origins of the Garden of Eden,\u201d and it is apparently going to be the first part of a two-part series, if all goes as planned. Its full title is <i>The Eden Project Part One: Eve<\/i> and the Tracking Board says it may have \u201csimilarities\u201d to the recent hit film <i>Lucy<\/i> starring Scarlett Johansson. So, make what you will of <i>that<\/i>. Maguire has already been involved with at least one film that had Garden-of-Eden overtones, namely <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/pleasantville\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Pleasantville<\/a><\/i> (1998). \u2019Twill be interesting to see how this compares.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><b>September 27 update:<\/b> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/sony-picks-up-female-centric-736014\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says <i>The Eden Project<\/i> is \u201ccentered around two female characters\u201d and is actually meant to be the first part of a <i>trilogy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reportedly it will have similarities to the recent hit <i>Lucy<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2517,2516,2518,2171],"class_list":["post-22183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-christina-hodson","tag-eden-project","tag-jennifer-meyer","tag-tobey-maguire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tobey Maguire making a sci-fi Garden of Eden movie?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reportedly it will have similarities to the recent hit Lucy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/09\/tobey-maguire-making-a-sci-fi-garden-of-eden-movie.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tobey Maguire making a sci-fi Garden of Eden movie?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reportedly it will have similarities to the recent hit Lucy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/09\/tobey-maguire-making-a-sci-fi-garden-of-eden-movie.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-26T04:00:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-27T16:10:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2014\/09\/tobeymaguire-216x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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