Saturday, November 06, 2010

Saturday Night Stew

-Comedian Mike White. (School of Rock, Nacho Libre) is the front runner to direct the period comedy/thriller adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombie reports The Los Angeles Times.

-Tom Hardy has been offered the role of "Henry Sturgess" in "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov's film version of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" reports Bloody Disgusting.

-Michael Caine Ray Winstone, Derek Jacobi, Gerard Depardieu and Vinnie Jones are attached to star in "Henry5", an apocalyptic sci-fi pic using William Shakespeare's play Henry V says IndieWire.

-Gary Ross has signed a deal to direct an adaptation of potential franchise starter "The Hunger Games" says Variety.

- Ice Cube and David O. Russell (Three Kings) are re-teaming to develop a new potential film franchise that will be a throwback to the old school 1970's Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood reports Deadline.

-Mark Bomback will write a new draft of an adaptation of Robert Kurson's true lifer deep sea adventure novel Shadow Divers reports Variety.William Broyles penned a previous draft

-Abigail Breslin is the latest to join Garry Marshall's upcoming romantic comedy ensemble "New Year's Eve" says Digital Spy

-Miley Cyrus has signed for the action comedy "So Undercover" reports Deadline.The story revolves around a young but tough FBI agent who is forced to go undercover in a college sorority. Tom Vaughan (Extraordinary Measures, What Happens in Vegas) is on board to direct from a screenplay by Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl

-Michael J Bassett is set to write and direct "Silent Hill sequel called Revelation 3D  reports Bloody Disgusting. Former scribe Roger Avary will no longer be involved.

-Brad Pitt has dropped out of the long-gestating film  World War Z says Vulture.

-Scarlett Johansson i will star as an alien in  Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi pic "Under the Skin"-based on Michel Faber's book according to Heat Vision Blog And We Bought A ZooCameron Crowe says Deadline 

-Asked if he's signed on The Hobbit: Part 1/Part 2 Sir Ian McKellen says "I would say - at the moment - no, I am not under contract"

-James Cameron says it'll be 8-10 years before glass-less 3-D TV hits major penetration into households…

-Aaron Eckhart will  star in the thriller "The Expatriate" says Deadline.Philipp Stölzl ("North Face") directs from a script by A.E. Amel.

-Stephen Sommers will direct a film adaptation of Dean Koontz novel "Odd Thomas " says Screen Daily.

--Zack Snyder insists that  Superman: Man of Steel will be different from any of previous films and that General Zod will NOT be the bad guy says DigitalSpy


-Dame Judi Dench is set to make a cameo in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides reports The Daily Mail.

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