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However, sources tell IGN that Sony Pictures is still determined to bring the property to the screen. We recently learned that the studio is teaming up with former Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad to make the movie based on the Sony Online Entertainment title. Reliable sources have informed us that Sony views the project as a potential blockbuster release for either 2009 or 2010.

For the unindoctrinated, EverQuest is based in the fantasy world of Norrath during the Age of Turmoil. The game's lands are inhabited by numerous races that you'd expect to find in a game like this -- humans, elves, barbarians, trolls and ogres, just to name a few. Each character belongs to a class such as druid, warrior, enchanter, ranger, rogue, or wizard, that defines their abilities and shapes their overall development. The players can engross themselves in an innumerable number of quests (hence the title), while playing with a group or going solo. The adventures are set in a vast world comprised of diverse landscapes that are inhabited by fairies, dragons, werewolves, orcs and other fantastical creatures.

Now, with the EQ movie seemingly on deck, it's time for us to take a closer look at how the flick might play out...

Story: Shrouded in Mystery

We've been told that 300 writer Michael Gordon has been tapped to pen the screenplay. The plot, as you might expect, is being kept tightly under wraps, but we know that the film will feature some of the most prolific characters in EverQuest lore. With the vastness of the game's backstory it could seriously go anywhere, but our best suggestion, and one we think the filmmakers are most likely to explore, would be to center the game around Firiona Vie, the sexy female high-elf featured in EverQuest's iconic box art.

The film could track a diverse group of characters -- with the most popular classes and races being featured in the main cast -- on a quest to rescue the kidnapped Firiona from the Iksar. Or the movie's action might center on the prolific conflict between Firiona and her nemesis Lanys T`Vyl. Each scenario offers plenty of opportunity for exploring the coolest parts of the game. We'd also split the cast into groups -- a la Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers -- and cut back and forth between their quests.

Director: Ghost of a Chance

With a writer already in place, the obvious question becomes: Who will direct the EverQuest movie? We think it's possible that producer Avi Arad will call on his pal Mark Steven Johnson, director of Ghost Rider and Daredevil, to helm the EQ flick. And while Johnson, who is also an established screenwriter, has not exactly struck gold with his comic book adaptations, we think he's shown enough potential that we'd consider trusting him with EverQuest. Johnson is currently writing the pilot for HBO's adaptation of Preacher (he's also executive producer on the series), but as far as we know he has no other plans after that, so availability isn't an issue.

We aren't anticipating the studio going after any really big names to fill the director's chair, but there are still plenty of other choices

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Almost a decade after they lit up the screen in the acclaimed Elizabeth, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, and director Shekhar Kapur reunite for the follow-up Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Even more lavishly produced than its predecessor, Elizabeth: The Golden Age is, like the 1998 film, a thriller gussied up as a costume drama, but it makes the same mistake that so many sequels do: it mistakes bigger for better, overwhelming the viewer with so much music, spectacle and melodrama as to nearly squelch the human drama. Elizabeth: The Golden Age opens in 1585 and finds the queen still being harangued by her staff, notably chief adviser and spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham (Rush), about finding a husband and producing an heir. She entertains a number of royal suitors, but is charmed the most by the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) -- a pirate and explorer who has just recently returned from the New World. Raleigh tells the monarch and her court about how he established a colony there in honor of the Virgin Queen -- Virginia -- and shows off the gifts he has brought back for her, namely tobacco, potatoes and gold. The Spanish ambassador, however, doesn't take too kindly to the presentation of the gold, since the swashbuckling privateer Raleigh stole it from Spanish vessels. Tensions between Spain and England, two powerful empires in their prime, are already at a fever pitch since King Philip II of Spain (Jordi Molla) plunged Europe into holy war. (For those of you who skipped class, Spain is a Catholic nation, while England is Protestant.) These are the days of the Inquisition and Elizabeth and her advisers fear that Spain will bring such terror to their shores. Philip II, however, isn't the only royal pain for Elizabeth. There's also her cousin Mary Stuart of Scotland (Samantha Morton), an imprisoned Catholic monarch, and a cell of Jesuit zealots (led by Rhys Ifans) who are out to assassinate Elizabeth. Long story short, Spain launches its superior armada to conquer England and, well, if you don't know what happened to them then you really did miss class, didn't you? Amidst all this international intrigue, Elizabeth falls for Raleigh, but appears poised for heartbreak again when he becomes taken with the queen's beloved lady-in-waiting, also named Elizabeth but who goes by Bess (Abbie Cornish) for short. Raleigh may have sought the queen's favor in order to fund his next expedition, but he finds that destiny has something else in store for him. [ignvideo]object_ID=40176&downloadURL=http://moviesmovies.ign.com/movies/video/article/826/826433/elizabeth_golden_ints_flvlow.flv[/ignvideo] Subtlety is hard to find in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The film's bodice-ripping passion is the stuff of romance novels featuring Fabio on the cover, and the film's political subtext is far too on the nose for its own good. (Even the score is over-the-top at times.) It is not reading too much into the film to see Philip II as a substitute for George W. Bush, portrayed by Molla as an awkward zealot whose piety fuels his policy to wage war on whomever he perceives as a threat. On the other hand, the Catholics of this film are almost a stand-in for Muslims -- but, unlike Philip II, Elizabeth refuses to trample the rights of her subjects whose religion happens to be the same as her enemies -- while the Jesuit assassins operate like a terrorist cell. The film goes out of its way to make its metaphors transparent, as if screaming, "This isn't some period movie! This is really about today!" The Spaniards here are reminiscent of both the Klingons as portrayed in the original Star Trek series (swarthy war-mongering charlatans), as well as Mexican bandidos in any number of spaghetti westerns