Tommy Lee Jones is set to play the legendary General Douglas MacArthur in Peter Webber's Japan-set political thriller epic "Emperor" at Fellers Film and Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment says The Hollywood Reporter. Inspired by true events and set amidst the uncertainties of the days following the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Matthew Fox … [Read more...]
“Rampage” Arcade Game Becomes A Film
November 19, 2011 by
New Line Cinema is developing a film adaptation of the classic 1980's arcade video game "Rampage" reports Heat Vision. Midway Games produced the game which follows three humans who mutate into a giant lizard, werewolf and ape respectively. The players goal was to inficlit enough damage on the buildings on the screen to cause them to … [Read more...]
Reddit Thread Becomes “Rome”
October 15, 2011 by
Warner Bros. has picked up the high-concept pitch "Rome, Sweet Rome" from first-time scribe James Erwin says Variety. The twist in this story is that the sale came about from several postings he did on the online community and social news aggregator website Reddit.com. The question he posited? "What if a unit of current U.S. Marines are suddenly … [Read more...]
Steve Carell Becomes A “Foxcatcher”
October 1, 2011 by
Steve Carell has been offered the lead role in "Moneyball" helmer Bennett Miller's true crime drama "Foxcatcher" says The Press Association. Carell has been asked to play schizophrenic murderer John du Pont, the heir to the du Pont chemical fortune who built a wrestling gym called Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate. In 1996, he shot and … [Read more...]
“Source Code” Becomes A TV Series
September 17, 2011 by
"Grey's Anatomy" and "Criminal Minds" producer Mark Gordon and CBS are developing a TV series version of this year's Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi thriller "Source Code" says The Hollywood Reporter. The film followed a soldier who is part of a government experiment which enables him to cross over into another man's identity for the last eight minutes of … [Read more...]
Colin Firth Becomes A “Railway Man”
September 11, 2011 by
Colin Firth has joined the cast of the film adaptation "The Railway Man" for Archer Street, Pictures in Paradise and Latitude Media says The Hollywood Reporter. The story is based on former British army officer Eric Lomax’s real-life best-selling account of his torture by the Japanese during the construction of the “death railway” during World War … [Read more...]
Jim Henson’s “Sand” Script Becomes Comic
August 30, 2011 by
Comic publisher Archaia has converted late "Muppets" creator Jim Henson’s unproduced "A Tale of Sand" script into a comic reports LA Weekly. Editor-in-Chief Stephen Christy says “It’s the last and only screenplay that Henson never got to produce in his lifetime so we’re bringing it to life as a graphic novel.” Both Henson's daughter Lisa and The … [Read more...]
Alexander Skarsgard Becomes A Viking
July 17, 2011 by
Breakout "True Blood" blond hunk Alexander Skarsgard is being lined up to star in and produce the Viking-themed epic "The Vanguard" at Warner Bros. Pictures and Atlas Entertainment reports Variety. Chris Boal will pen the script which follows two Viking warrior brothers who toil to return to Sweden after being banished to North America. The tone … [Read more...]
