Earlier this month it was revealed that Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift, Pan) has signed on to pen the script for Gal Gadot’s solo debut in 2017’s Wonder Woman, and now a rumour is doing the rounds on Twitter suggesting that he may not be the only screenwriter tackling the Amazon Princess. According to […]
Brett Ratner developing a Hugh Hefner biopic
The life of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is heading to the big screen courtesy of Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment, with Ratner spearheading development on a biopic which will “explore Hefner’s metamorphosis from a dreamer raised in a conservative Methodist household, to an icon of the sexual revolution” following the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953. […]
Pan screenwriter to pen Wonder Woman movie
A couple of weeks ago it was confirmed that Michelle MacLaren (Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad) has signed on to direct Warner Bros.’ solo Wonder Woman movie, and now the project has secured a writer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jason Fuchs will pen the script for Gal Gadot’s first solo outing. Fuchs previous credits […]
Farel Dalrymple delivering Pop Gun War sequel this June
Image Comics has announced that fan-favorite cartoonist Farel Dalrymple will release Pop Gun War: Chain Letter, a sequel to his award-winning and critically acclaimed urban fantasy graphic novel Pop Gun War: Gift, this June. Stuck in a small town with a broken-down van, Emily goes on a walk. After following some shady characters through subterranean […]
Rumour: Hugh Jackman set for X-Men: Apocalypse reshoots
We’ve known for a while that Hugh Jackman is set to don the claws as Wolverine for a final time with 2017’s third solo movie, but we haven’t heard a definitive answer on whether we’ll see his Logan back on the big screen before then as part of next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Well, if a […]
Rapper Boosie Badazz cast in Glass Jaw
Baton Rouge rapper-actor, Boosie Badazz, has been cast in the indie-boxing feature film Glass Jaw, being produced by Steve Perry (True Romance) and Zeus Zamani (Battlefield America), and executive producers Tommy Vlahopoulos, of Tommy V Productions, Tom Sulkowski (The Rake), and Dan Gatsby of Gatsby Studios. The famed American rapper joins lead actor Lee Kholafai […]
Hugh Jackman in talks for The Odyssey
The Wrap is reporting that Hugh Jackman could be set to take an Odyssey, with the actor in early talks to star as Odysseus in Lionsgate’s upcoming adaptation of the Homer epic. According to a spokesperson for Jackman, “this is a conversation at this point. Very early stages and nothing is confirmed.” The Odyssey is […]
Brendan Fraser joins Condor
Following on from last week’s casting of Mira Sorvino, it is now being reported that Brendan Fraser has joined the cast of Condor, Audience Network’s TV adaptation of the 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor. Fraser is set to play Nathan Fowler, “an unstable yet efficient central cog in an unholy alliance between […]
Personal Shopper helmer to direct spy thriller Wasp Network
Variety has revealed that Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) is set to write and direct Wasp Network, a spy thriller based upon Fernando Morais’ book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War. Wasp Network tells the true story of “Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s when anti-Castro groups based in […]
Pablo Larrain replaces Kathryn Bigelow on True American
Jackie and Neruda director Pablo Larrain has signed on to replace Kathryn Bigelow on True American, Annapurna Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of Anand Giriharadas’ non-fiction book The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas. Taking place in Texas in the days following 9/11, the film follows “Rais Bhuiyan, a Muslim immigrant and Bangladesh Air Force veteran […]
