- Darren Aronofsky has set out to make his long talked about edgy re-telling of the Noah's Ark story says Deadline. Dscribed as "a gritty, down-and-dirty" take on the Biblical story of the man who saved all the animals of the world from an apocalyptic flood. Aronofsky wrote the script which is getting a rewrite from John Logan.
-Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Dykstra ("Spider-Man 2," "X-Men: First Class") has scored first feature as a director - "Super Zero" reports Variety. Based on Jeff Lemire's graphic novel "Tales From the Farm," the family-friendly story follows an orphaned 10-year-old who goes to live on a farm with his uncle. As their relationship grows strained, he befriends the town's gas station owner, a former pro hockey player, and the pair escape into a private fantasy world of superheroes and alien invaders.
-Former "Lost" showrunner Damon Lindelof has made a major deal with Disney Pictures to write a secret sci-fi film with the working title "1952" that is intended to have “multiple platform aspirations” says Deadline. No further details were revealed about the story...And the site also reports that "Thor" and "X-Men: First Class" scribes Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz have sold an untitled contemporary disaster/action film pitch.
-The remake rights to Andre Ovredal's Norwegian film "Troll Hunter" are being optioned reports Deadline.The pseudo-doco film follows a group of students whose investigation into a series of mysterious bear killings leads to something sinister. They wind up following and documenting a mystery man who turns out to be a troll hunter. The original film is part of VOD and in select tjeaters
-MGM is developing a CG-animated movie based on Jarrett J. Krosoczka's children's book "Punk Farm" says The Hollywood Reporter. The story involves five ordinary barnyard animals who, by night, form a punk rock band.
-Director Todd Lincoln ("The Apparition"), producer Daniel Alter are working to bring a film adaptation of the comic "The Nye Incidents" to the screen reports Heat Vision. Author Whitley Strieber co-wrote the comic with Craig Spector. The story follows a cynical but logical medical examiner whose faith in the rational is shattered when she runs afoul a brutal murder of a supposed alien abductee. The case puts her on the path of a serial killer working in the alien abductee community who may or may not be human. A writer is being sought to adapt a script.
Garret Dillahunt is set to co-star in Luke Moran's indie "The Boys of Abu Ghraib" says Variety The story follows a US soldier at the infamous Iraq prison who befriends a detainee accused of murder.
-Jim Carrey told Monsters and Critics."We're talking about maybe returning to some old characters that everyone has been asking about. There's Bruce Almighty and we're talking about maybe another Dumb & Dumber."
-Deadline reports Olivia Williams is the front runner to play Eleanor Roosevelt in Roger Michell's "Hyde Park on the Hudson" Bill Murray plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt while Laura Linney plays FDR’s distant cousin and mistress
-Jan Kounen ("Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky," "Dobermann") is attached to direct the €18 million animated sci-fi 3D feature "Windwalkers: Chronicle of the 34th Horde" for Forge Animation says Variety.
-Fox Animation have hired Christian Magalhaes & Bob Snow ("Murder of a Cat") to write an animated modern day twist on "King Kong" and will tell the story from the vantage point of the ape says Deadline.
-There is yet another Beattles biopiic in the works--This would be #5 that is currently in denlopment at various studios in the industry
-"The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" director Roland Emmerich has been offered the film adaptation of Atari’s 1979 hit arcade game "Asteroids" according to Vulture.
-The plans to restart the "Poltergeist" franchise are moving aheap as laywright turned screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire ("Rabbit Hole") has been offered the job of write thhe script reports Vulture., MGM told Lindsay-Abaire he has the freedom to take the story whereever he wants.
-Speaking to Variety Harvey Weinstein says that the success on DVD and TV of the 1998 Matt Damon and Ed Norton conmen flick "Rounders" may mean he will go ahead with a sequel.“I never make sequels but it’s something I’d like to revisit” Never make sequels? What about the Scream movies Harve?
-Singer Cyndi Lauper has joined the cast of Robert Saitzyk's musician flick "The Last Beat" says The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows Jay Douglas, a rock star who goes to Paris in a search for a more artistic existence as a poet and writer. Lauper will play Bebe Markham
-Shane Acker, director of the 2009 animated feature "9", is doing live action film adaptation of "Thomas the Tank Engine" says Deadline. The story revolves around a young boy who has drifted apart from his father. The son is shown Sodor, the island of talking trains where Thomas is among a litany of characters It's a place his father visited as a child but can't remember. From that comes a "bonding experience" The movie aims to launch a line of older-skewing movies and toys that will try and refocus the 65 year old brand out of the pre-school demo and skew slightly older.
-Moviehole reports that Universal Pictures proposed sequel to Joe Johnston’s meh 2009 "The Wolfman" will be an original film. Michael Tabb’s script is being rewritten to share more of a connection to the original George Waggner 1941 film than the remake. The film will use a completely different title and directors will be met with in coming weeks ahead of a planned production start later this year.
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