According to the Hollywood Reporter, Coling Firth is currently in talks to join and star in the big screen adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series, “The Secret Service.” Matthew Vaughn, who also adapted the Millar comic series “Kick-Ass” has co-written the screenplay with Jane Goldman and will also direct and produce the project through his MARV Films banner. Continue reading
Reliance Entertainment, an India-based company, in partnership with Kintop Pictures, has officially acquired the film rights to Kristin Cashore’s bestselling, award-winning young adult fantasy novel, “Graceling.” Piers Ashworth, most known for his work on Nostradamus, has signed on to write the script for the adaptation. Continue reading
Honestly, my love for Lee Pace knows no bounds. I mean have you even seen him in “Pushing Daisies?” Also, I love his face, but that is an article for another time I suppose. In Lee Pace news, The Wrap has reported that he has won the coveted role of the villain in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy. What the “villain role” entails has not been revealed but we do know that he will join already confirmed cast members Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Michael Rooker and Ophelia Lovibond in the James Gunn film. Continue reading
The best-selling novel from William Paul Young called, “The Shack” has been optioned by Summit Entertainment. The novel was originally published out of a garage by Brad Cummings and Wayne Jacobsen but has since garnered a huge fan base. First published in 2007, “The Shack” has to date sold over 18 million copies worldwide, 10 million in the United States, and over 8 million internationally. The novel has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for over 180 consecutive weeks, topping the list at #1 for 52 of them, and has also been on the USA Today Top 150 List for 188 weeks. Ranked by Nielsen as the Top Best-Selling Book of 2008 and 2nd Best-Selling Book of 2009, “The Shack” has been featured in national profiles as diverse as Newsweek, TIME, People, and The New York Times. Continue reading
The last we heard about the upcoming remake of “The Crow,” the lead role was rumored to be offered to Bradley Cooper and James McAvoy. However, The Wrap has reported that Tom Hiddleston is in early talks to play Eric Draven in Relativity Media’s reimagining of James O’ Barr’s gothic comic character The Crow. Continue reading
The American adaptation of Park Chan-wook’s Korean film, Oldboy, has released its first teaser poster, which you can see above. FilmDistrict revealed the poster at CinemaCon and has since put the poster online. The adaptation comes from Spike Lee and is set to hit theaters on October 11. Continue reading
Tom Cruise has officially signed on to star in an upcoming adaptation of the Warner Bros. Pictures sci-fi project Yukikaze. The film will be the big screen adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Japanese author Chohei Kambayashi. Continue reading
Deadline reported today that Glen Mazzara, the former show runner of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” is in talks to write the script for The Overlook Hotel. The film will serve as a prequel to Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining. Kubrick famously adapted the Steven King novel in 1980 starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd. The project for the prequel was first announced in 2012 by Warner Bros. Continue reading
It was announced today that Summit Entertainment has officially hired on Barbara Marshall to write the adaptation for Exorcism Diaries. The project, which was initially to be written by Jay Baruchel. It is based on the book “The Real Story Behind the Exorcist: A Study of the Haunted Boy and Other True-Life Horror Legends from Around the Nation’s Capital,” written by Mark Opsasnick. Continue reading
News regarding the sci-fi film Snowpiercer has been slow going since it was first announced last year. The film comes from director Bong Joon-ho, most known for his film The Host, and is an adaptation of the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige.” Today, new photos have come online from the Korean site Hancinema (via Movies.com) revealing ten different character passports from the upcoming release.
The story s set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.
Published in 1983, the post-apocalyptic future, black and white comic was made by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette. The book has since been translated to Korean where it may have finally made it’s way to director Bong Joon-ho; who co-wrote and directed the comedy-horror classic The Host. Bong Joon-ho bought the rights to the comic in 2005 and will be teaming up with Park Chan-wook and Dooho Choi to produce the movie. The most recent draft for the project was written by American screenwriter, Kelly Masterson, who is best know for writing the screenplay for the film “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead.”
The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kangho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Brewmner, Alison Pill, John Hurt and Ed Harris.
You can see the passport photos below:
