Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski will remake the Korean thriller The Host for Universal Studios. Verbinski will produce while commercials director Fredrik Bond will debut behind the camera. Mark Poirier (Smart People) will adapt the 2006 Bong Joon-ho-directed thriller according to Variety. The film did record breaking business when it open in South…
William Tell is finally getting his due as Justin Chadwick (Bleak House) has signed on to direct Ironbow: The Legend of William Tell. He will work from Jay Wolpert’s (The Count of Monte Cristo) script about the marksman who was forced to shoot an apple from atop his son’s head. Spyglass will produce the film…
The Latino Review is reporting that Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson will direct a live-action He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for producer Joel Silver. He-Man was Mattel’s line of action figures from the early 1980s which spawned a two season animated series that was composed of 130 short episodes. It spawned a…
Arcana Comics’ Gearhead has been option for a feature film by Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures. The graphic novel was created by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon and originally appeared as a miniseries prior to trade collection. Variety says the “story revolves around a young woman who leaves the drag strip to team up…
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast’s nine volume House of Night series has been optioned by producers Michael Birnbaum (John Tucker Must Die) and Jeremiah Chechik (Benny and Joon) according to Variety. The young adult novel series is yet another to feature teens and vampires, a sub-genre exemplified by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. The conceit, according to…
Smallville’s fathers, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, have been signed to adapt Robotech into a live-action feature for Warner Bros. No director, cast or production dates have been released. The 1980s anime series ran in America courtesy of Harmony Gold USA and was one of the first noteworthy anime series from that era. It was…
Isaac Asimov hasn’t been well served by Hollywood adaptations of his novels. That hasn’t stopped Regency from trying their hand with his long out of print The End of Eternity. Variety reports the 1955 novel has been picked up. The production entity is seeking a writer and director. The trade says the book is “a…
Now that Quantum of Solace is open, all eyes are turning to next week’s release of Twilight. Summit Entertainment has begun putting the pieces in motion to adapt the second of Stephenie Meyer’s novels, New Moon. No final decision will be made until the dollars hit the box office but the worldwide reaction is expected…
Disney has signed Colin Trevorrow (Stealing Time) to write the adaptation of Scott Christian Sava’s Pet Robots. The studio optioned the graphic novel in 2007. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as “a high-tech comedy set in the present, Pet Robots revolves around futuristic robots that fall into the hands of the least likely group of…
DreamWorks outlined for The Hollywood Reporter which of the properties it retained after its divorce from Paramount are now on their “high-priority list”. Among them are a few genre properties including: Cowboys and Aliens: The adaptation of the Platinum Studios comic is still being written by now executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. Ron…
D.J. Coffman’s Hero by Night has been optioned by IM Global for adaptation into a live-action television series. The book, released by Platinum Studios, won their 2006 Comic Book Challenge competition. The Hollywood Reporter says the project is about “young landlord Jack King, who uncovers the lair of the title character. Determined to make some…
Earlier this week we reported that Showtime was looking at a modern day retelling of the Camelot tale and now Ain’t it Cool News is reporting that director Terence Malick (The New World) is developing his own take on the legendary court of knights. The Independent on March 23, 2002, first wrote about this, saying,…
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