During an interview with Comic Book Resources to promote the home entertainment release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, ILM’s John Knoll has revealed that he originally conceived the idea as a potential pitch for an episode of Star Wars: Underworld, the live-action Star Wars TV project that was in development at Lucasfilm following the […]
Joachim Ronning to direct adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Micro
Following the success of Westworld on HBO, Amblin Entertainment is looking to bring another of Michael Crichton’s projects to the screen, with Deadline reporting that Joachim Ronning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is in talks to direct an adaptation of Crichton’s final novel Micro. Penned by Darren Lemke (Goosebumps), with Frank […]
Miles Teller to reunite with Shailene Woodley for Adrift
Back in February it was announced that Baltasar Kormakur (Everest) is to direct Shailene Woodley in the sea survival tale Adrift, and now THR is reporting that Woodley’s Divergent and The Spectacular Now co-star Miles Teller is also in talks to join the project. Adrift will tell the true story of Tami Oldham, a woman […]
Ricky Martin joins Versace: American Crime Story
Grammy Award-winning musician Ricky Martin has become the latest addition to the cast of Ryan Murphy’s Versace: American Crime Story, where he will play Antonio D’Amico, the partner of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace. The third instalment of the anthology series after The People v. O.J. Simpson and the upcoming Katrina, Versace will see Edgar […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
