- Snow White and The Huntsman director, Rupert Sanders, is working on a science-fiction take on the Battle of Algiers.
- Machete Kills poster pretty much confirms the sequel’s cast
- Taylor Lautner lines up his next project, Tracers, playing, “a hot New York City bicycle messenger who is debt to an organized crime gang. When he crashes his bike into a sexy stranger, he’s immediately seduced by her and the thrill of the world of Parkour.” And no, I’m not making this shit up.
- There’s a bio-pic of CBGB founder, Hilly Kristal in the works, with Alan Rickman slated to play the visionary behind the New York City venue for county, bluegrass and blues music (the “CBGB” of the name). “But after acts playing that music were tough to find, Kristal allowed local performers to play. That decision was precipitous, as the club soon became ground zero for rock & roll as well as punk, launching the careers of performers such as The Ramones, Blondie and Patti Smith.”
- Martin Scorsese is teaming with Lord Richard Attenborough and Anthony Haas on the film, Silver Ghost, a drama based on the true story of the founding of Rolls Royce. The film, “is described as a complex love story, not only between men and women, but men and machines. Set at the turn of the last century, it traces the story of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, as well as the love affairs of the famed Beaulieu family.”
- Steve Kloves, who adapted much of the Harry Potter series, has signed on to write and direct an adaptation of William Landay’s legal thriller, Defending Jacob. “Set in a wealthy Boston suburb, novel follows a district attorney who must leave his day job to defend his son from a murder charge while uncertain of his son’s innocence.”
- Ethan Hawke is reteaming with the Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers) on a time travelling sci-fi action thriller Predestination, which is based on the Robert A. Heinlein short story ”All You Zombies.” The film focuses on “a secret government time traveling agency designed to prevent future killers and terrorists from committing their crimes. Pic chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity.”
- A Good Day To Die Hard has added Prison Break star Amaury Nolasco and House of Lies’ Megalyn Echikunwoke to the cast.
- Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini have all signed up to join Jake Gyllenhaal in An Enemy. “Gyllenhaal plays a history teacher living a quiet life with his
girlfriend until he discovers a physically identical man living nearby
with his pregnant wife. The teacher stalks his double until the couples’
lives become intertwined with lethal consequences.”
