Charlie Kaufman Adapting SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE For Guillermo Del Toro – Big 6 Morning Report

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• 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 “momentous voyage in the South China Sea” is already being dubbed the “Chinese Titanic.” (THR)”

• Three months have gone by since the Bostom Marathon bombings, which obviously means it’s time to start talking movie! The Fighter scribes Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy have optioned the upcoming book Boston Strong. (The Wrap)
• Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel is set to star in Neill Blomkamp’s  upcoming sci-fi comedy Chappie. (FirstShowing)