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Lin-Manuel Miranda developing film and TV adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle

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Lionsgate has announced that Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is partnering up with Pat Rothfuss, author of The Kingkiller Chronicle, to adapt the fantasy book trilogy for film and TV, with an additional option of a stage production. Deadline reports that Miranda will serve as producer, as well as composing the music and penning the songs; […]

Heroes’ Masi Oka to appear in Adam Wingard’s Death Note

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Heroes alum Masi Oka has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he’s set to appear in Death Note, Netflix and director Adam Wingard’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s manga series. Oka, who is also a producer on the film, will appear alongside a cast that includes Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Margaret Qualley […]

Syfy developing TV adaptation of Boom! Studios’ The Woods

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Deadline is reporting that Syfy is developing an hourlong drama based upon James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas’ Boom! Studios comic book series The Woods, which has Brad Peyton (San Andreas) set to produce and direct from a script by Michael Armbruster (Beautiful Boy). “We’ve always seen this title as having the potential to be […]

Charlie Cox wants to see Bullseye in Daredevil season three

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Although we’re yet to hear anything official about a third season of Netflix’s hit Marvel series Daredevil, star Charlie Cox is already thinking about what could be in store for the Man Without Fear in the future. In an interview with Screen Rant, the actor has revealed that he’d like to see the introduction of Bullseye, […]

Tropic Thunder screenwriter to pen Cannonball Run revival

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Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to the Cannonball Run franchise, tapping Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3 screenwriter Etan Cohen to pen a new film, which is being described as a “relaunch” rather than a “remake”. Revolving around a cross-country race, the first film was released by Fox in 1981 and […]

Disney returning to The Black Cauldron for The Chronicles of Prydain

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Walt Disney Pictures are returning to the world of The Black Cauldron, with Variety reporting that the studio has picked up the rights to Lloyd Alexander’s five-book fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain – the first two of which were adapted in the 1985 movie. Released between 1964 and 1968, the five books – The […]

Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles to get stop motion animated biopic

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Deadline is reporting that Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee companion Bubbles is set to receive a stop motion animated biopic, which is being produced by Dan Harmon (Community) from Isaac Adamson’s Black List script. Bubbles will tell “the story of Michael Jackson’s life and history from the perspective of the pet Chimp which got a close-up view […]

Benjamin Rigby joins Alien: Covenant

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Australian actor Benjamin Rigby (Lion, That’s Not Me) has signed on for a role in Alien: Covenant, director Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus sequel-cum-Alien prequel. Rigby will join the returning Michael Fassbender, who reprises his role from Prometheus, alongside new additions Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down), Demian Bichir (A Better Life),  Billy […]

Martin Freeman’s Captain America: Civil War role revealed

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Marvel Studios has been keeping the identity of Martin Freeman’s Captain America: Civil War character under wraps, but now Empire has confirmed that The Office and The Hobbit star is playing Everett Ross. Here’s an image of Freeman’s Ross alongside Emily VanCamp’s Sharon Carter… SEE ALSO: Anthony Mackie suggests The Hulk may be in Captain […]