Monday, January 10, 2011

Monday Morsels

Fresh news bits for you to digest--including updates on several stories reported on previously

Wood

-Elijah Wood is set to reprise his role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: Part 1 and:: Part 2 says Deadline

-Scott Derrickson ("The Day the Earth Stood Still", The Exorcism of Emily Rose) will direct a new film version of the biblical tale David and Goliath says the Heat Vision Blog The story follows a young Shepard named David who is set on an epic chase to save his own life and the lives of his people when the fierce warrior Goliath begins tracking down a foretold king of the Israelites.The film's described as a period piece with 21st century sensibilities Will this pic be Better than Still or Rose? God I hope so....

-Author Erin Morgenstern has sold the film rights to her debut young adult novel "Night Circus" to Summit Entertainment says Heat Vision.The tale follows two young magicians coming of age in the 19th century. They soon themselves at the center of an age-old rivalry between their two illusionist fathers, embattled at an enchanted circus where their competition and eventual romance play out. Is this yet another Twilight-esque pic for the studio?

-Gary Ross, the director of the upcoming "The Hunger Games" film adaptation and potential trilogy, tells Entertainment Weekly that he and the studio have agreed to make the movies teen friendly."It's not going to be an R-rated movie because I want the 12- and 13- and 14-year-old-fans to be able to go see it. This book means too much to too many teenagers for it not to be PG-13. It's their story and they deserve to be able to access it completely." says Ross. The Suzanne Collins' book series has some pretty dark sequences throughout The Solution from from Ross? "I don't need to have a huge prosthetic budget or make this movie incredibly bloody in order for it to be just as compelling, just as scary, and just as riveting. (It's not) an overly graphic book. Even things like the Tracker Jacker sequence, while horrific, it's the ideas that Suzanne has created that are so harrowing" says Ross.

-Peter Farrelly has denied the most recent round of casting rumours about "The Three Stooges" to Entertainment Weekly which had Johnny Knoxville, Andy Samberg and Australian comedian Shane Jacobson playing the Stooge trio Saying "there are no contenders at this point... You don’t want people to think ‘they already cast that thing,’ because we haven’t. It’s wide open to everybody." Filming is still slated to kick off mid-April in Atlanta, which means actors will have to be locked down soon.

-Producer/director r Ivan Reitman tells Cinema Blend that "virtually everything you’ve read on the internet about Ghostbusters III is not accurate." Reitman also confirms the first full script by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg was only completed a month ago.

-It seems that J.J. Abrams' throwback Super 8  never had its title changed Studio suits say, the new title listing on a Brazil website was "for security purposes only"

-It has been confirmed that Detroit, rather than Chicago or New Orleans as previously reported will be one of the three locales for production on The Dark Knight Rises with London and Los Angeles.being the others

-In a leaked synopsis for Scream 4 via Bloody D finds Sidney Prescott  (Neve Campbell) now an author who returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. Her appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface. The info also reveals that Mary McDonnell plays her aunt, Emma Roberts her cousin. The horror sequel opens April 15th

-Steven Soderbergh's says that there were quite a few reshoots on his upcoming spy thriller "Haywire," which make it different from an early version screened last Summer. He also confirmed the April 22nd release date. And that He's Absolutely Sincere About Retirement

Hammer

-Armie Hammer says that Clint Eastwood’s upcoming J. Edgar Hoover biopic  J. Edgar will follow the FBI director and his assistant/lover Clyde Tolson from being young men through to their 70's. The actors will use make-up for their elderly incarnations

-Catherine Keener has joined the cast of Yaron Zilberman‘s indie-drama “A Late Quartet".Keener''s Capote co-star  Philip Seymour Hoffman was also linked to the pic says  Dark Horizins

Pike

-Rosamund Pike and Diane Kruger are both in early talks to star in “Godmother" says The Playlist. Ron Bass writes the script based on Carrie Adams's novel with Justin Chadwick (”The Other Boleyn Girl," “Bleak House”) attached to direct the flick.

-As we wait for news on the as yet Untitled Star Trek Sequel star Chris Pine talked about the Jack Ryan reboot Moscow to the Herald Sun this week (via What's Playing). Of particular note are his feelings about taking over for Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October, immediately followed by Harrison Ford in Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games, and finally Ben Affleck in The Sum of All Fears.

Pine

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