Adaptation

Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Time casts Storm Reid in lead role

Posted 10 years ago

The more I hear about Ava DuVernay’s A WRINKLE IN TIME, the more I like it. I've loved the casting of Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which (Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, and Oprah Winfrey, respectively), and the casting continues to kill it. The...

Netflix is facilitating Mike Flanagan’s Gerald’s Game

Posted 10 years ago

Director Mike Flanagan (OCULUS, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL) has been struggling to get an adaptation of Stephen King's GERALD'S GAME off the ground for some time. However, following the success of his film HUSH on the Netflix streaming platform, the company...

Ruh-Roh! Dax Shepard tapped to direct new Scooby-Doo movie

Posted 10 years ago

Dax Shephard (star of PUNK'D and Dane Cook's EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH) has just signed on to co-direct a SCOOBY-DOO animated feature alongside animation vet Tony Cervone (director of straight-to-DVD films like SCOOBY-DOO AND KISS: ROCK AND ROLL MYSTERY and FLINTSTONES & WWE:...

Ouija 2: Origin of Evil trailer drops

Posted 10 years ago

So, yet another film based on a board game from Universal? Well, we all remember what happened with BATTLESHIP, right?  Well it seems history won't repeat itself this time. OUJIA 2: ORIGIN OF EVIL is, in fact, a sequel to the succesful OUIJA movie that...

Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time eyes Mindy Kaling & Reese Witherspoon

Posted 10 years ago

I loved A WRINKLE IN TIME as a kid. I haven't read it since junior high school, but I still remember being swept up in its magical world of different dimensions and flying creatures with rainbow wings. It opened up my...

Joaquin Phoenix may join John C. Reilly in The Sisters Brothers adaptation

Posted 10 years ago

Last year we brought you word that John C. Reilly will star in THE SISTERS BROTHERS, an adaptation of the Patrick deWitt novel of the same name, and now Deadline has learned that Joaquin Phoenix is in early negotiations to...

Room’s Lenny Abrahamson to direct World War I tale The Grand Escape

Posted 10 years ago

THR is reporting that ROOM and FRANK director Lenny Abrahamson is attached to helm an adaption of the upcoming Neal Bascomb novel The Grand Escape. This will likely be Abrahamson's next movie, but Bascomb hasn't finished the book yet and...

Ben Stiller to helm TV adaptation of Super Sad True Love Story for Showtime

Posted 10 years ago

It's been almost a year since it was first announced that Ben Stiller and writer Karl Gajdusek (OBLIVION, NOVEMBER MAN) were developing a television adaptation of the 2010 novel Super Sad True Love Story, and now Variety is reporting that...

Creed’s Tessa Thompson in talks to join Alex Garland’s Annihilation

Posted 10 years ago

The Wrap has learned that Tessa Thompson is in early talks to star in ANNIHILATION, director Alex Garland's adaptation of the Jeff VanderMeer novel of the same name. The CREED and DEAR WHITE PEOPLE actress is considering several other offers,...

Live-action The Witcher movie to debut in 2017; TV series also in the works

Posted 10 years ago

Platige Films has announced that they have partnered up with the Sean Daniel Company (the upcoming BEN-HUR remake) for a live-action movie based on Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher fantasy book series, which will be the first in a planned film...

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