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Studio 8’s Action Sci-Fi Adaptation, THE HIDDEN GIRL, Gets A New Writer

Author and screenwriter Ellen Shanman has been busy working her fingers with projects Paramount, Imagine and Black Label Media among a raft of other companies. Her workload now extends to efforts currently in the hands of Studio 8 for an adaptation of Ken Liu’s 2017 publication, The Hidden Girl, which the firm landed in 2016. The female-centric sci-fi thriller tells of an ancient Chinese myth about a team of women assassins who can navigate between dimensions. As Anita Busch’s exclusive on Tuesday details, The Hidden Girl is one of over 100 short stories, many of which have decorated Liu with multiple awards, including 2012 publications “The Paper Menagerie” and “Mono no Aware”, and the multi-award winnint Spring 2015 print, “The Grace of Kings”. There’s no director or cast attached while The Hidden Girl remains as one of many projects the Studio isn’t sitting still on, including Hypnotic, Planet Kill, crowdfunded […]

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Studio 8 To Adapt Ken Liu's Sci-Fi Action Short Story, THE HIDDEN GIRL

According to Deadline, short story author Ken Liu is something of a feat to keep an eye on for the next few years. He’s since been an award-winner with titles such as the Hugo winning 2012 publication, “Mono no Aware”, and the multi-award Spring 2015 print, “The Grace of Kings”, and now he’s making headway toward the big screen thanks in large part to the efforts of Studio 8. For this, we look toward next year’s print, The Hidden Girl, which is described as a story with tones similar to that of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The premise? Well, plot info is mininal at the moment while what is known is that the story revolves around a team of assassins capable of interdimensional travel. I don’t know about you, but I read the above paragraphs and unless we’re given a closer look, I can’t […]

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