From Peter Chattaway’s Film Chat blog:

…David Auburn, the playwright behind Proof (my review), is now working on a script for a movie called St. George and the Dragon. Apparently this film is the brainstorm of Doug Wick, who saw a painting based on this legend three years ago; the IMDB lists Wick as a producer of Gladiator (2000; my review), Hollow Man (2000), Bewitched (2005) and Stuart Little (1999-2002; my comments), among others.

As one might expect in this day and age, this new film will not be a straightforward telling of the heroic tale. Says Wick: "St. George and the Dragon is the enduring myth of a knight’s struggle to save a feudal princess from a fearsome beast. In Auburn’s retelling, the knight will be not so chivalrous, and the princess not so chaste." Perhaps the beast will not be so fearsome, either, then?