The Tracking Board is reporting that Universal Pictures has tapped Jeff Pinker to pen a rewrite on Creature from the Black Lagoon, the studio’s planned remake of the 1954 horror classic. SEE ALSO: Scarlett Johansson linked to Creature from the Black Lagoon remake In addition to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Pinker’s previous credits include Alias, […]
Scarlett Johansson linked to Creature from the Black Lagoon remake
According to The Tracking Board, Universal Pictures is eyeing Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Age of Ultron) for a role in its Universal Monster shared universe, with the site reporting that she has been offered the female lead in a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon. Directed by Jack Arnold and released in 1954, Creature from […]
Fox developing a Rocky Horror Picture Show remake with High School Musical director
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the movie adaptation, Fox has announced that it is remaking the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a two-hour taped event special, which is being developed by Kenny Ortega (High School Musical, Michael Jackson’s This Is It). Deadline reports that the tentatively titled The Rocky Horror Picture […]
Four more join Fox’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show TV remake
Fox is filling out the cast of its upcoming TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with Victoria Justice (Zoey 101), Ryan McCartan (Liv and Maddie), Reeve Carney (Penny Dreadful) and model Staz Nair all signing on to appear. Justice and McCartan are set to portray Janet and Brad, played by Susan Sarandon and […]
Nikolaj Arcel in talks to direct The Dark Tower
Back in April it was announced that the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s epic fantasy series The Dark Tower from Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer had been resurrected by Sony and Media Rights Capital, and now it looks like a director may have been found. According to Deadline, Nikolaj Arcel is in talks […]
Sony picks up adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
It looks like Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer’s long-gestating and highly ambitious plan to adapt Stephen King’s The Dark Tower may yet see the light of day, with Sony and MRC teaming up to co-finance and produce what they hope will be an epic franchise spanning both movies and television. “There are few […]
It Follows to get a sequel? Distributor Radius-TWC has “thought about it”
With its stellar release thus far on both sides of the pond ($9.45 million grossed already in the US alone), David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows is the indie-horror sensation of 2015 to date, and it seems the producers are already considering a sequel, with Tom Quinn, co-president of Radius-TWC, stating that: “I don’t want to […]
George Miller wanted Heath Ledger for Mad Max: Fury Road, reveals title of next sequel
The Mad Max franchise returned to the big screen after a thirty year absence this past weekend with the release of Mad Max: Fury Road, marking the end of a fifteen year plus journey for director George Miller, who originally started developing the film back in the late 90s. Having originally planned to shoot the […]
Dominic Cooper set to star in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Preacher
After news broke last night that actress Lucy Griffiths was set to join the cast of AMC’s Preacher, it was quickly followed with more news that young Howard Stark himself Dominic Cooper is close to a deal to star as Jesse Custer in the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced-pilot. Cooper, who has recently featured […]
Bill Paxton set to join Daniel Radcliffe for Grand Theft Auto film
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Aliens star Bill Paxton could be set to join Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe in Grand Theft Auto, BBC Films’ true-life story of the creator of Grand Theft Auto and a Miami lawyer who wanted to get the game banned. Radcliffe is playing Sam Houser, the British co-founder and […]
