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In a new May 11, 2006, interview in Australia’s Moviehole, super producer Ilya Salkind notes that among his current projects is "a new film based on the mythic The Abominable Snowman."
This is important to hear as it gives fresh news, the first since 2003, that The Abominable Snowman is still going to be made.
In a press release on April 28, 2003, Emmett/Furla Films and Ilya Salkind (Superman) announced that they have joined forces to develop and produce a feature film entitled The Abominable Snowman. Gale Anne Hurd (The Hulk) was also in negotiations to produce alongside Salkind, Emmett and Furla.
The Abominable Snowman is a time tested and thought provoking title that Ilya Salkind has had a passion for since 1993.
In 2003, Ilya Salkind said: "Ten years ago I envisioned The Abominable Snowman to follow in the blockbuster franchise tradition of Superman and The Three Musketeers. Now, with today’s seemingly unlimited technologies in filmmaking, the time is right.
Reportedly, Salkind’s The Abominable Snowman is based on the old Hammer Studio’s film The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.
Traditionally, there has been more discoveries, more research-based funding, and more insights on cryptids when major studio projects concurrently move in the direction of serious treatments on these subjects. The involvement of Salkind does not translate into “thriller” or grade-B movie to me and to others I know in the business.
I have not found this motion picture and the others I am aware of that I cannot talk about yet because of nondisclosure agreements are going to be melodramas. They appear to NOT be thrillers, but grounded biopix and dramas.
This movie along with other “serious” studio productions involving Yeti tell me that it is getting to be “steam engine” time, a precursor period of a shift occurring. I see a specific trend developing, and that’s why I have shared it in this fashion.