After Star Wars and Mission: Impossible both went rogue, another feature film will do so as well. In adaptation news, Variety reports the British novel Rogue Male is being turned into a feature with Benedict Cumberbatch set to star, as well as produce the story about a hunter who is tortured and left to die after he attempts to assassinate a dictator. He escapes, and is then hounded by enemy agents and the police in his rural hometown. The script is penned by Michael Lesslie, whose resume include Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed. Also producing with Cumberbatch is Lloyd Levin, Black Sheep Pictures’ Beatriz Levin and Branwen Prestwood Smith. This is not the first time Rogue Male has been adapted to the screen, as Fritz Lang brought it to life with his 1941 film Man Hunt.
In another exciting pairing, Aubrey Plaza is set to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in director...
In another exciting pairing, Aubrey Plaza is set to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in director...
- 8/2/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
President Lyndon Baines Johnson (America’s 36th Commander-in-Chief, fact fans!) has had a run of portrayals on film in recent years, popping up in the likes of Selma, Get On Up, Parkland and The Butler, but usually as a character in someone else’s story. Now he’s getting a new spotlight in Lbj thanks to director Rob Reiner and star Woody Harrelson.Originally developed by producers Tim and Trevor White and with a script from Joey Hartstone, this represents a subject that Reiner has been trying to bring to cinemas for years, ever since announcing back in 1997 that he was going to adapt a biography of the man.The current version is not directly taken from any one book, but follows Lbj’s rise from the South to the White House, and the political turmoil he faced when the assassination of John F. Kennedy suddenly catapulted then Vice President...
- 6/16/2015
- EmpireOnline
World War Z rejected by China censors? What will Paramount cut next? (Photo: Brad Pitt as a World War Z zombie-fighter) World War Z, the Brad Pitt movie about the (latest) upcoming zombie apocalypse, has received several early positive reviews in the United States, but has been less well liked — i.e., rejected — by the Chinese censorship board according to TheWrap, citing an unnamed source. If true, that’s bad news for the Marc Forster-directed Paramount release that not only cost a reported $200 million — not including marketing and distribution expenses — but also one that had already suffered a bit of self-imposed censorship for fear of hurting the delicate sensibilities of Chinese censors. Now, first of all, a clarification: TheWrap cites "an executive familiar with upcoming releases in China" as the source of World War Z‘s Chinese censorship ordeal. However, another unidentified Paramount executive claims "the studio had not...
- 6/5/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Pain and Gain
Anthony Mackie ("The Hurt Locker," "The Adjustment Bureau") is in talks to join Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as the third lead in Michael Bay's low-budget crime comedy "Pain and Gain" at Paramount Pictures.
Based on a true story, the film follows a group of bodybuilders who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida. Mackie would play a big-hearted bodybuilder who works out with Wahlberg's character. Shooting begins in early spring. [Source: Variety]
Untitled Bigelow/bin Laden Project
Harold Perrineau has joined the cast of Kathryn Bigelow's film about Navy Seal Team 6′s long hunt for Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.
Perrineau's role is being kept secret, same with the other cast members of the film. [Source: Deadline]
Rosaline
Lily Collins ("Mirror Mirror"), Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") and Dave Franco ("Fright Night") is considering the titular role in "Rosaline", a contemporary re-telling of...
Anthony Mackie ("The Hurt Locker," "The Adjustment Bureau") is in talks to join Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as the third lead in Michael Bay's low-budget crime comedy "Pain and Gain" at Paramount Pictures.
Based on a true story, the film follows a group of bodybuilders who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida. Mackie would play a big-hearted bodybuilder who works out with Wahlberg's character. Shooting begins in early spring. [Source: Variety]
Untitled Bigelow/bin Laden Project
Harold Perrineau has joined the cast of Kathryn Bigelow's film about Navy Seal Team 6′s long hunt for Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.
Perrineau's role is being kept secret, same with the other cast members of the film. [Source: Deadline]
Rosaline
Lily Collins ("Mirror Mirror"), Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") and Dave Franco ("Fright Night") is considering the titular role in "Rosaline", a contemporary re-telling of...
- 2/24/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Falklands veteran Simon Weston has been appointed as an advisor on 'Downton Abbey'. The 50-year-old former Welsh Guardsman - who suffered severe burns in 1982 - was called upon by producers for the ITV period drama to give actor Trevor White, who will play soldier Patrick Gordon, advice about facial disfigurement. Simon said: "We got on incredibly well. He wanted to know some things about disfigurement and what it should look like. I told him about different sores and how it can be around the edges of a skin graft. "There is always scarring that does not heal and to make...
- 8/10/2011
- Virgin Media - TV
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