Stan Lee will executive produce a television adaptation of Hero for Showtime according to Variety. The novel was written by Perry Moore and was released in 2007, telling the story of an “up-and-coming super-hero who struggles to hide his secret identities.” Moore is writing the script for the hour long series and will also serve…
IDW Comics has announced it has obtained the license for comics based on the Astro Boy movie. They intend to publish two comic miniseries tied to the film, according to IDW Editor in Chief Chris Ryall. The CGI-animated movie will be opening next October in a release said to be planned for 3000 screens and…
Director Sam Mendes chatted briefly with Empire Magazine about adapting Preacher for the screen. He is a lot less far along than one would imagine based on his comments. “This is a typical Variety announcement,” Mendes told the British publication. “‘Mendes to direct Preacher’ – I wish! Basically they should have written, ‘Mendes in development…
After visiting Camelot, director John Boorman (Excalibur) has decided to take a trip to see the Wizard. He has signed to direct a CGI-animated adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film is budgeted at $25 million, according to Variety, and marks Boorman’s first animated project. The script will be a…
The suddenly in demand Brad Ingelsby is scripting Die Bad, the English-language remake of a Korean action film with Marc Foster (Quantum of Solace) negotiating with Universal to direct. The 2000 original production was written and directed by Seung-wan Ryoo and, according to Variety, was comprised of “four short films that told the story of…
Jack Black will tower over his co-stars in the remake of Gulliver’s Travels. The 20th-Century Fox film, according to Variety, will be directed by Rob Letterman (Shark Tale) with a screenplay from Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Joe Stillman (Shrek). Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle,…
It looks like those, like myself, in love with the children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba! will be enjoying your favorite monsters on the big screen. According to producer Charles Rivkin, there is currently a confirmed plan for a feature film. Seeing as how Pee Wee’s Playhouse can stem three films, there’s no reason why a…
Hollywood’s favorite shock novelist Chuck Palahniuk is getting another movie adaptation in the form of Haunted. The book’s film rights are being optioned with the newly formed New School Media, headed by former ICM literary agent Brian Levy. Koen Mortier, whose directorial debut Ex-Drummer premiered at least year’s Toronto Film Festival, will direct the adaptation….
Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green has been tapped to direct Freaks of the Heartland, an adaptation of the Dark Horse graphic novel from Steve Niles and Greg Ruth, for Overture Films. The screenplay was written by Peter Sattler and Geoff Davey. Green will produce alongside Dark Horse Entertainment president Mike Richardson, with Steve Niles…
“I’m gonna direct The Freshmen, which is a comic book that my friend Hugh Sterbakov and I created”, Seth Green told Moviehole. “We have two graphic novels in the marketplace, and we conceived it as a feature. But that’ll be the movie that I direct.” “It is kids – it’s Revenge of the Nerds meets…
Warner Bros. is quietly setting up The Odyssey with Brad Pitt’s Plan B producing and George Miller (Mad Max) attached to direct. The hope is that Brad Pitt will also star as Odysseus, who embarks on his long journey home from the Trojan War after declining to become a god. WB previously released Troy, which…
Post-production delays may torpedo The Road’s chances of opening in 2008. The film, starring Viggo Mortensen and based on Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed novel, was originally scheduled for a November 14, but has been slipped to December and if the work is not completed may miss the year entirely. The story, directed by John Hillcoat, features…
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