Deadline is reporting that NBC has given a script commitment to a TV adaptation of John Stockwell’s 2002 surfing film Blue Crush, which is being written and executive produced by Lizzy Weiss, co-writer of the original film. Blue Crush starred Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake as three friends living the dream of surfing […]
Doug Ellin teaming up with Donnie Wahlberg and Nick Lachey for boy band comedy Encore
Variety is reporting that Entourage’s Doug Ellin is teaming up with Donnie Wahlberg and Nick Lachey for a new CBS comedy entitled Encore, which will revolve around members of a boy band who reunite after 20 years. The inspiration for the series came from Wahlberg and Lachey comparing notes about their lives and past experiences […]
Paul Feig to direct female engineer comedy Turned On
It looks like Paul Feig has found his first post-Ghostbusters project, with the director signing on to helm the female engineer comedy Turned On for 20th Century Fox. Variety is reporting that the project is written by Charlie Kesslering, an assistant to James Corden on The Late Late Show with James Corden, and “centers on […]
USA Network gives pilot order to Biggie and Tupac crime drama Unsolved
Deadline is reporting that USA Network has placed a pilot order for Unsolved, a true crime serial from director and executive producer Anthony Hemingway (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story). The project has been written by Kyle Long (Suits) and is based upon former LAPD Detective Greg Kading’s book Murder Rap: The Untold […]
IDW announces Highlander prequel comic miniseries
IDW has announced that it is set to launch a brand new Highlander comic book miniseries, which will serve as a prequel to the 1986 cult classic starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. “In the 30 years since its release, Highlander has inspired a massive cult following that craves new stories based on the original […]
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan to direct graphic novel adaptation Naja
The Huntsman: Winter’s War director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is set to helm an adaptation of Jean-David Morvan and Bengal’s acclaimed graphic novel Naja for Thunder Road Pictures, Entertainment 360 and Nickel City Productions. Scripted by J.P. Davis (The Neighbor), Naja “centers on a beautiful assassin, who is all the more deadly because she is unable to register […]
Samuel L. Jackson joins Travis Fimmel in sci-fi Inversion
Variety is reporting that Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to join the cast of Inversion, a new $130 million-budgeted sci-fi from director Peter Segal (Grudge Match), which has Travis Fimmel (Vikings) and Liu Yifei (Once Upon a Time) also attached to star. The film will revolve around Fimmel’s “street-wise American con man who teams […]
Universal developing live-action Voltron movie with screenwriter David Hayter
With its acquisition of DreamWorks Animation earlier this year, Universal Pictures picked up the rights the 80s cartoon series Voltron, and the studio has continue development on a live-action adaptation of the franchise. David Hayter (X-Men, Watchmen) is set to pen the script for the Voltron movie, although Deadline is reporting that with it being an inherited […]
Stephen Mangan, Heather Graham and Jo Hartley to star in Sky Atlanic comedy series Bliss
Stephen Mangan (Episodes), Heather Graham (Angie Tribeca) and Jo Hartley (This Is England) are set to star in Bliss, a new comedy series from writer-director David Cross (Arrested Development) and Sky Atlantic. Deadline reports that the series stars Mangan as Andrew, “a successful travel writer who, through extenuating circumstances, finds himself living between two sets […]
IDW and IM Global teaming up for action drama LD50
IDW Entertainment and IM Global Television have announced that they are partnering up to co-develop and co-produce LD50, a new action drama from writer and executive producer Scott Dacko. The project will incorporate a TV series, along with a series of comic books. LD50 is described as “an expansive, thought-provoking character-drama set in a world […]
