'War' follows '300' path

June 26, 2008 Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton will produce "War of the Gods," a story with a similar scope and tone to the Warners breakout, with Ryan Kavanaugh, whose Relativity Media will finance the picture. The production has attached music video and commercials director Tarsem ("The Fall"); Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, the brothers who are writing a draft of the Japanese thriller "Death Note" for Vertigo, are penning the screenplay. A number of studios were interested in the project since it went out about a week ago, but Relativity won rights with a bid of mid-six against seven figures and the commitment to make the movie quickly, with principal photography set for as early as the first quarter of 2009.

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