Jon Favreau’s upcoming live action adaptation of The Jungle Book for Disney has gained another thespian, as THR reports that Sir Ben Kingsley has signed on to voice the black panther Bagheera. Kingsley joins Idris Elba, who voices the villainous tiger Shere Khan, Scarlett Johansson, who voices the hypnotic python Kaa, and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, […]

Variety is reporting that FilmNation Entertainment has hired The Help director Tate Taylor to helm In the Event of a Moon Disaster. The project has been in the works since 2009, and is based on a speech written by presidential speechwriter William Safire, who passed away that year. After his death, a speech called “In Event Of Moon […]

According to Variety, Zodiac producers Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt are developing an adaptation of Scott Andrew Selby’s true crime novel A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer. The film will be titled Blackout, and is to be produced under Fischer and Vanderbilt’s Mythology Entertainment banner. Devil scribe Mark Hogan will write the script. The […]

Last July, 19 firefighters who were part of the Prescott Fire Department’s Granite Mountain Hotshots lost their lives battling an Arizona wildfire that consumed over 8,000 acres. Now, Deadline is reporting that Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace writer and director Scott Cooper will helm an adaptation of their tragic story. The script is being written by […]

According to Deadline, Submarine star Craig Roberts has landed the lead role in the pilot for Red Oaks, a new Amazon Studios drama series from Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green. He will play a 20-year-old college student named David Myers, who gets hired as an assistant tennis pro at the “predominantly Jewish” Red Oaks country club. The […]

Shall we play a game? According to TheWrap, up-and-coming director Dean Israelite (Project Almanac) is in final negotiations with MGM to direct a remake of the 1983 Cold War science fiction film WarGames. Erased screenwriter Arash Amel will pen the script, based on original drafts from Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner) and Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk). Israelite […]

Back in April Ridley Scott entered talks to direct an adaptation of Andy Weir’s science fiction novel, The Martian, which stars Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney, who finds himself stranded on Mars. With limited supplies, damaged machinery, and an unforgiving environment, Mark uses his ingenuity to try and find a way home. Drew Goddard was originally […]

Though the project has yet to be “officially” confirmed by Marvel Studios, the long-gestating Doctor Strange movie is finally gaining traction, with Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson at the helm. Over the last few weeks the Sorcerer Supreme has been in the news cycle several times, from gaining Prometheus scribe Jon Spaihts to wrangling a list of prospective […]

FOX’s Batman prequel series Gotham is shaping up to be quite the exploration of the Caped Crusader’s rogues gallery. What began as a telling of future police commissioner James Gordon’s origin has seemingly morphed into a larger exploration of what turned some of Gotham City’s citizens into the villains we know and love. We already know that […]