TFC Morning Report – Friday, March 27, 2009 – Marvel’s super team of writers
Top Story: Marvel Entertainment is hiring a team of film writers to tackle its massive library of superhero characters. Five writers will be invited to work on a Marvel property each year, possibly including current comicbook writers. This creative brain trust will help turn Marvel’s C-list characters into potentially lucrative motion picture franchises. (Variety) In Other News: Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy’s first post-Oscar job will be writing the script for DreamWorks Animation’s Truckers. (THR) The hardest working writer in showbiz has another project on his plate. The Departed writer William Monahan wrote the script and is in talks to direct on The Essex, a historical drama set during the War of 1812. (Variety) Taye Diggs and Anita Briem have joined Kevin Munroe’s Dead of Night. The supernatural thriller, currently filming in New Orleans, also stars Superman Brandon Routh...
Read MoreTFC Morning Report – Tuesday, March 17, 2009 – Transformers 3 release date set
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Top Story: Transformers 2 doesn’t come out until June, but DreamWorks and Paramount have already set the date for Transformers 3. The threequel will hit theaters on July 1, 2011. (Variety) In Other News: Director Catherine Hardwicke, who was fired from the Twilight saga because she couldn’t adapt a terrible book, is in talks to take on another young-adult series. Columbia Pictures is courting the director for an adaptation of the YA fantasy Maximum Ride. (THR) In Zac Efron news, Dwayne Johnson suggests that Zac will take the lead in a Johnny Quest movie. (MTV) J.J. Abrams will produce, and possibly direct, an adaptation of the Wired magazine article “The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist” for Paramount. (THR) The Weinstein Co. nabbed the US distribution right to the UK’s Nowhere Boy, the...
Read MoreNew Star Trek trailer hits
“Your father was captain of the Starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives… including yours. I dare you to do better.” Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams, hits theaters on May...
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