The hit video game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has been headed for a big screen adaptation for quite some time. Columbia Pictures had originally brought on Kyle Ward to write the script, but it looks like his deal fell apart at [...]
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The First Hobbit Script Has Been Completed
Peter Jackson recently sat down for an interview about The Lovely Bones (directed by Jackson and starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz), during which - Jackson confirmed that the script for the first Hobbit film had been completed, [...]
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Point Break Scribe To Bring AMERICAN GLADIATORS To The Big Screen
Screenwriter Peter Iliff (Point Break, Patriot Games, Varsity Blues) will write the live-action big screen version of American Gladiators. The story, which will feature the Herculean characters as superheroes, will be based on the TV show that first aired in [...]
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UNDERWORLD 4 On The Way, Being Penned By Writer From THE SHIELD
Len Wiseman, who directed the first two Underworld films is producing a fourth Underworld movie. John Hlavin has signed on to pen the screenplay. Hlavin was most recently the writer for the FX Network crime series - The Shield. The screenwriter [...]
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TRON: Legacy Writers To Pen OUIJA for Universal
Universal has hired the writers of Tron Legacy to pen the screenplay for its Ouija project. The upcoming movie adaptation is part of a six-year deal that the studio has made with toymaker Hasbro to turn its board games into [...]
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Shane Black Is Bringing DOC SAVAGE To The Big Screen
DOC SAVAGE and The Fabulous Five are being brought to life for a cinematic adventure, courtesy of Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). According to AICN, Black is bringing writer Lester Dent's famed Man of Bronze to life, writing [...]
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NEW ‘Judge Dredd’ Is Moving Forward
While a new Judge Dredd movie has been in the works for quite some time now, we really didn't have much info on it other than some snippets of concept art. Now we've found out that screenwriter Alex Garland is the [...]
Read more‘Akira’ Movie Brought Back To Life By ‘Iron Man’ Writers
We told you back in June that the Akira movie was reportedly dead and buried, but apparently it is now being resurrected. According to Collider and their “trusted source", the live action version of Katsuhiro Otomo’s popular anime has started showing [...]
Read more‘Hancock’ Sequel Gets A Writing Duo
Columbia Pictures has hired scrreenwriters Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to pen the sequel to the Will Smith superhero movie, which grossed $624 million worldwide last year. The original producing team is expected to return. Plot details are being kept under [...]
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Creators Of Smallville To Adapt “I Am Number 4”
Smallville creators, Al Gough and Miles Millar have signed on to adapt "I Am Number 4" for producer Michael Bay and DreamWorks Studios. In June, the studio pre-emptively purchased the film rights to the unpublished science fiction novel written by Jobie [...]
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‘Roberto Orci’ To Receive Norman Lear Writer’s Award
Screenwriter and producer Roberto Orci has been having a hell of a year. As writer of two of 2009's biggest blockbusters (Michael Bay-directed "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" reboot) as well as producer for the year's [...]
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‘Birch’ and ‘Johns’ To Write ‘Shazam!’ Movie
Actor-turned-writer Billy Birch has been tapped to reboot "Shazam!," Warners' adaptation of a DC Comics series featuring Captain Marvel. Geoff Johns, one of the three DC Comics heavyweights hired by the studio to act as consultants on DC projects, is also [...]
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