As Sony Pictures Entertainment preps a fourth installment of "Spider-Man" to begin production early next year, the studio has quietly engaged screenwriter James Vanderbilt to pen "Spider-Man 5" and "Spider-Man 6." Vanderbilt was the first writer on "Spider-Man 4." Director Sam [...]
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie ("The Usual Suspects") will script the follow-up to this year's solo debut for the Marvel mutant. In a repeat of their "Wolverine" pairing, Jackman will produce the sequel alongside Lauren Shuler [...]
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Best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin is to make his comic book debut by penning a story featuring supernatural detective John Constantine, it has been reported. The Scottish author's new graphic novel Dark Entries sees the anti-hero investigate a series of mysterious [...]
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According to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, he's writing a two-issue Lobo comic for DC that is being drawn by artist Sam Kieth for release this fall. Ian confirmed the comic in an interview with The Quietus.com, saying that writing a comic [...]
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When MTV spoke to “Green Lantern” movie co-writer Marc Guggenheim last month about his Oni Press comic book series “Resurrection” (as well as the “Green Lantern” movie, of course), they somehow managed to leave out a small chunk of the [...]
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According to IESB, 20th Century Fox has hired Kyle Ward to write Hitman 2. The first film came out in 2007 and starred Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott and a pre-Bond Olga Kurylenko. The critics didn't like it, but it made $100 [...]
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Even for a comic book movie screenwriting veteran such as Zak Penn, the task of bringing multiple Marvel characters together in one film is a daunting one. It's so daunting, in fact, that Penn isn't even sure it'll work when [...]
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NBC is mining the staff of "Heroes" for writing talent, sealing overall deals with series scribes Aron Coleite and Joe Pokaski. The Peacock's Universal Media Studios arm has signed separate two-year pacts with Coleite and Pokaski, who will continue to write [...]
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