Charlie Kaufman Adapting SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE For Guillermo Del Toro – Big 6 Morning Report
Rarely does the perfect writer line up with the perfect director do adapt material perfectly suited for the both of them, but it’s happening over at Warner. Charlie Kaufman could be on board to write the script for an adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut masterpiece Slaughterhouse Five for Pacific Rim director Guillermo Del Toro. (/Film) Guardians of the Galaxy mystery characters have finally been paired with their actors. Benicio del Toro will voice the Collector, Lee Pace will play Ronan and Karen Gillan is Nebula. (DoG) Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen will play an NGO worker and a priest, respectively, in Stephen Daldry‘s upcoming film Trash, about poverty-stricken three boys who find something mysterious in a Third World city dump. (Deadline) The famed Chinese director John Woo is set to begin production on his first film in four years, The Crossing. The film about a...
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SAVED BY THE BELL Making A Return In A Whole New Format – Big 6 Morning Report
Who wants to see more of the misadventures of Skreech, Zack and the gang? Well, NBC is making 80s and 90s TV fans dreams come true with a line of new digital comics. Saved by the Bell, as well as other shows including Airwolf, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, and Punky Brewster, are all expected to make returns thanks to a partnership with Lion Forge. Oh, I bet those kids are going to drive Mr. Belding so crazy. (ScreenRant) Relativity Media has hired The Crow creator James O’Barr as a creative consultant on the upcoming movie reboot of the classic comic. (/Film) James Franco may have quit Garden of the Last Days but that doesn’t mean we won’t have to suffer through another of his directorial efforts. Franco says he’s following up his directorial debut, an adaptation of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, with another Faulkner adaptation: The Sound...
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Rick Moranis Talks GHOSTBUSTERS 3 – Big 6 Morning Report
Rick Moranis is officially retired from acting, but the seemingly never-ending talk about Ghostbusters 3 even has Louis Tully finally making a comment. Moranis recently told Empire magazine that he “wouldn’t not” do a third movie. However, the second film was a disappointment in his eyes and the third would have to be good in order for him to return. (Empire) Want to see a Hellboy 3? Well, don’t get your hopes up for a sequel anytime soon. Despite a possibility of the film being made at Legendary Pictures, the head of the company Thomas Tull said that there are right issues to be worked out before the movie can proceed. (Shock Till You Drop) How much money with Man of Steel make worldwide? The Hollywood Reporter is predicting about $650-700 million after the film just passed the $500 million mark. That puts MoS on...
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There’s A CAPTAIN PLANET Movie In The Works – Big 6 Morning Report
For 90s kids, you’ll never forget where you were when you heard this news: Captain Planet and the Planeteers is being made into a feature film. No, I’m not talking about those Funny or Die shorts starring Don Cheadle. Sony is in final negotiations to acquire the screen rights to the classic 90s cartoon. (THR) Terminator 5 now has a release date: June 26, 2015 (making it part of what will likely be the greatest summer movie season ever). Not only that, but it’s going to be the first movie in a stand-alone trilogy. (AICN) Netflix must really like Orange is the New Black. The streaming TV company has already renewed the show for a second season, even before its July debut. (THR) Django co-stars Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio are re-teaming for WB’s adaptation of Craig Zahler’s Mean Business On North Ganson Street. (Deadline)...
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Marvel Requests a Meeting with Vin Diesel – Big 6 Morning Report
Is Vin Diesel joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Possibly, as Diesel took to Facebook yesterday saying Marvel had requested a meeting with him. Who will he play? I like ScreenRant’s theory that Diesel would be the perfect voice of Thanos. (ScreenRant) Mega-spoiler alert (well, for those who are familiar with the Spidey comics): Here’s why Shailene Woodley‘s Mary Jane may have been cut from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. (Hollywood Life) Kick-Ass 2 has a viral campaign. (wearejusticeforever.com) Sandra Bullock is out, but Cameron Diaz is in. Diaz will fill the role of Miss Hannigan in the upcoming movie musical Annie after Bullock (again) declined the role. (Deadline) Daniel Day-Lewis who? FX is developing a limited series based off of the James Fenimore Cooper classic The Last of the Mohicans. And Chris Crowe, who co-wrote the 1992 feature starring Day-Lewis, will also...
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Goldblum & Pullman Coming Back For The INDEPENDENCE DAY Sequel – Big 6 Morning Report
While Will Smith may not be coming back, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum are both on board for the sequel to Independence Day, according to director Roland Emmerich. And who needs Smith when you have President MF’ing Whitemore back to kick some alien butt. (HitFix) What could be better than a Knightrider movie? How about a Knightrider movie with a talking car speaking Brad Copeland‘s (Arrested Development) zingers. The Weinstein Company is reportedly bringing in the writer to script the feature film adaptation of the classic TV series. (LA Times) The superb cast for director Daniel Espinosa’s Child 44 keeps growing. Philip Seymour Hoffman has joined the film about an military police officer in Satlin-era Soviet Russia who investigates a series of child murders. Hoffman joins Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, and Joel Kinnaman. (Deadline) Christopher McQuarrie might not be doing Mission: Impossible 5 after...
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