May 11, 2006
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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.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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