TFC Morning Report – Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 – Campbell in talks for ‘Green Lantern’
Welcome back, ya’ll. TFC Morning Report returns today.
Top Story: Variety reports that Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is in talks to direct Warner’s The Green Lantern movie.
In Other News: MTV sits down with Robert Downey, Jr. who says that Mickey Rourke is in Iron Man 2, but is not playing the Crimson Dynamo. So is he playing Whiplash? “I can neither confirm nor deny that,” says Downey.
Lionsgate and the Weinstein Company are at odds over the distribution of Sundance hit Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, so says HR.
He’s Just Not That Into You doesn’t open until tomorrow, but there’s already a quasi-sequel in the works. New Line and Warner commissioned HJNTIY writers to Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein pen Valentine’s Day, about the relationships of Angelenos, for a 2010 release.
Fin.