Marvel Studios has hired Thomas Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, the screenwriters behind Marcus Nispel's Conan to pen Doctor Strange, a property whose film history dates back almost 25 years. Doctor Strange will likely end up part of Marvel’s rumored plans [...]
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Warner Bros. has reportedly hired Greg Berlanti (No Ordinary Family), Michael Green (Smallville) and Marc Guggenheim (FlashForward), all of whom worked on the screenplay for the original Green Lantern currently in production, to assemble the treatment for a second Green [...]
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Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have purchased a 25-page science fiction treatment by Travis Beacham titled, Pacific Rim. Beacham was the original screenwriter for recent remake of Clash of the Titans and is currently writing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [...]
Read moreWalt Disney Pictures capsized the McG (Terminator Salvation) directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea before it even set sail. Partly due to the changing of the guard at Disney and the ever-inflating budget of the proposed production. Now, David Fincher [...]
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Recently, 20th Century Fox officially confirmed that Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake) would helm X-Men: First Class. Now, we hear that Vaughn will be bringing his Kick-Ass and Stardust writing partner, Jane Goldman on board to re-write the script. The first [...]
Read moreOscar-winning writer and director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson was knighted in his homeland of New Zealand. Jackson was conferred the honor of Knighthood for his services to the arts in New Zealand at a ceremony [...]
Read moreThe digital ink on our story about Joss Whedon reworking Zak Penn's script for THE AVENGERS hasn't even dried yet and it's already being reported that Whedon is in talks to rewrite the script for the Joe Johnston directed, Marvel [...]
Read moreWe previously reported that Joss Whedon (Firefly, Serenity) is in final talks to direct the film adaptation of Marvel's superhero team-up movie, THE AVENGERS. Now, Variety claims that Whedon is not just going to direct THE AVENGERS, he's also reworking [...]
Read moreColumbia Pictures has announced that their upcoming version of Masters Of The Universe has recruited new writers. Mike Finch and Alex Litvak who penned the Robert Rodriguez-produced PREDATORS will tackle the script. A production schedule for Masters Of The Universe [...]
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Travis Adam Wright, co-writer of Eagle Eye has been hired to adapt Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon, the first two books in James A. Owen's fantasy series The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. The [...]
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Ahh Battlefield Earth, a film that SciFi fans the world over wish people would stop associating with their beloved genre. Screenwriter J.D. Shapiro adapted L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth and brought it to the big-screen, which garnered Shapiro a Razzie [...]
Read moreWe told you last month that Paramount had hired Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to pen the sequel to the 2008 hit G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. You are likely aware that Reese and Wernick are also [...]
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