Muccino Working On Passengers
The Italian director Gabriele Muccino (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) is in talks to negotiations to direct Keanu Reeves in Morgan Creek’s science-fiction “Passengers.” Muccino says that he expects to start…
Dark Life Optioned For A Big-Screen Adaptation
The Gotham Group has optioned the underwater adventure novel “Dark Life” by Kat Falls for a big-screen adaptation. The book is being published this May 2010 by Scholastic. The story…
Gavin Hood Tackles The Cruelest Miles
Gavin Hood (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”) is in talks to direct an adaptation of “The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story Of Dogs And Men In A Race Against An Epidemic” by…
Fox Picks Up Robert Rodriguez’s Machete
The distribution rights to “Machete”, the project that grew out of a fake trailer Robert Rodriguez included in his joint project with Quentin Tarentino, “Grindhouse”, has been acquired by 20th…
James Marsden And Russell Brand Join I Hop
Russell Brand will be joining James Marsden in Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s live-action/CGI action comedy “I Hop”. Tim Hill (“Alvin and the Chipmunks”, “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties”) is…
Jackson And Duhamel Have Sympathy For The Devil
Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Duhamel have been cast to star in the upcoming suspense thriller “Sympathy for the Devil”. Boaz Yakin (“Remember the Titans”) will direct the project. The…
Jason Momoa Cast As Conan
Lionsgate and Millenium Films have cast Jason Momoa (“Stargate: Atlantis”, HBO’s “Game Of Thrones”) in Marcus Nispel’s upcoming adaptation of “Conan the Barbarian,” the classic Robert E. Howard character. The…
Sony Picks Up The Electric Church
Sony Pictures has picked up the rights to the sci-fi book “The Electric Church” by Jeff Somers. Trevor Sands has been hired to pen the adaptation, which is working under…
The Seven Sins Coming To The Big Screen
Christopher Kyle (“K-19: The Widowmaker,” “Alexander”) has been attached to adapt the best-selling novel “The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending,” by author Jon Land. The book is about the adopted…