Brad Pitt (Inglourious Basterds) has reportedly signed on for the lead role in the Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) directed big-screen adaptation of Max Brooks' novel, World War Z for Paramount Pictures. The novel is billed as the oral history [...]
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First, Random House picked up the book rights and now Warner Bros. has picked up the film rights for the young-adult sci-fi novel Ready Player One written by Fanboys scribe, Ernie Cline. Donald De Line (Green Lantern) is attached to [...]
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The cast for DreamWorks' I AM NUMBER FOUR just keeps growing. The latest addition is Jake Abel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), who joins Timothy Olyphant, Kevin Durand, Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron, Callan McAuliffe and Teresa Palmer. [...]
Read moreWe brought you a report back in April that Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93, Green Zone) was in talks to direct a remake of the 1966 Sci-Fi classic Fantastic Voyage for producer James Cameron‘s Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th [...]
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Timothy Olyphant (Justified, The Crazies) has joined the cast of DreamWorks' I Am Number Four, directed by D.J. Caruso. Olyphant joined the cast after Sharlto Copley (The A-Team, District 9) dropped out. Copley, who played Wikus Van De Merwe in [...]
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Just a few days ago, Dianna Agron (Glee), landed the romantic female lead in the DJ Caruso directed Sci-Fi film, I Am Number Four. Now, Kevin Durand (Legion) and Callan McAuliffe (upcoming Resistance) have joined the cast as well. According to [...]
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Dianna Agron (Glee), has landed the romantic female lead in the DJ Caruso directed Sci-Fi film, I Am Number Four. Agron will play a girl dating a high school jock who falls for Number Four and becomes his confidante. Number [...]
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Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram has started work on a Treasure Island remake for Warner Bros. The Treasure Island project is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel. Paul Greengrass was apparently being courted as director for the film, [...]
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Teresa Palmer (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) is the latest addition to the cast of director D.J. Caruso's adaptation of the upcoming young-adult sci-fi book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes, I AM NUMBER FOUR. Palmer will play Number Six and joins [...]
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Sharlto Copley, the South African actor who wowed audiences with his performance as Wikus Van De Merwe in Neill Blomkamp's District 9, is in talks to take the lead role in the DreamWorks adaptation of the upcoming young-adult science fiction [...]
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Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and Walt Disney Pictures are set to partner with the Gotham Group to adapt a new adult novel from Kat Falls called Dark Life. Robert Zemeckis is attached to direct and Jack Rapke (Beowulf), [...]
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Warner Bros. has purchased the Dante Harper-scripted adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel All You Need Is Kill. The storyline mixes an alien invasion with a time loop/temporal loop element similar to Groundhog Day, or the Star Trek: The Next [...]
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