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Angelina Jolie (Wanted) is in talks to take the lead role in an as-yet-untitled action-thriller from French filmmaker Luc Besson (Leon), Deadline are reporting. Few details are currently know, other than the fact Besson will write and direct what is being described as an action epic “rooted in true scientific elements”. Several studios are already [...]
Coming Soon have received a very special consignment delivered to them in the form of the first promo poster for action flick, The Courier. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mickey Rourke and Til Schweiger, the film centres around a specialist carrier (Morgan) who upon being hired to deliver a mysterious case to the underworld’s most fearsome [...]
Gareth Edwards has signed on to develop and direct Legendary Pictures’ new Godzilla film. Edwards, director of the highly acclaimed low-budget indie sci-fi film Monsters, will work with a new, as-yet-unhired, writer on the script. Warner Bros. will co-produce, co-finance and distribute per its ongoing deal with Legendary Pictures. Legendary Pictures aim to release Godzilla [...]
Tom Hardy (who currently holds the title for hardest working man in show business) may be adding another performance to his already busy schedule. He has reportedly been offered the role in Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Moviefone are claiming that Hardy is up for a supporting role in the film, which [...]
20th Century Fox have triumphed over rival studios Paramount, Sony, Universal and Summit Entertainment and secured the rights to the feature-film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The synopsis for the film is as follows: When President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, Lincoln’s passion is fueled to crush vampires and their slave-owning [...]
Monsters, the low-budget alien-invasion flick from first time director Gareth Edwards, has been attracting some strong buzz from screenings at various film festivals. Now, even before the film goes on general release, Edwards has mapped out a plan for his follow-up, another science fiction film set to be produced by, none other than, Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted). [...]
Russian fantasy export Timur Bekmambetov has been chatting to Empire about his future plans. He lists many potential projects (included a long in gestation sequel to Wanted) but the one he’s currently moving forward on is the intriguing titled Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which come from a novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the [...]
According to Variety the director of Wanted, Timur Bekmambetov, is in talks with Universal to make an English Language remake of Black Lightning, a Russian film he co-produced. Bekmambetov will most likely be in the director’s chair this time round for the English language version. The film is about a student who is given an [...]
HeyUGuys is normally a website devoted to film and all that goes along with film. I’m going to switch gears here for a moment and talk about books. Last fall I did an interview with screenwriter Derek Haas (Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma) regarding a short story from his website PopcornFiction.com that was picked up by [...]
A while back FirstShowing.net posted this story about Jerry Bruckheimer acquiring the rights to a short story written by Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma scribe, Derek Haas. The story is titled Shake was one of many that Haas featured on his short story website PopcornFiction.com. If you haven’t heard of PopcornFiction.com, it’s a website that [...]
