Superman Will Return March 14, 2008
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-Usual suspects director Bryan Singer has confirmed that work has already started on a sequel to 2006’s Superman Returns.
Singer is in the developmental stages of the sequel after getting back together with writers since the writer’s strike ended last month.
Superman Returns scriptwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris have both left the project and have been replaced by Star Trek and Transformers writers Alex Kurtzmann and Robert Orci.
Despite taking nearly $400 million at the global box office two years ago Superman Begins was a critical failure.
At this early stage no cast members have been officially announced there are rumours that Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor.
There were also suggestions some months back that Brandon Routh would not be returning in the role of Superman.
- With the help of writers Jason Segel and Nick Stoller Disney are to bring the Muppets back to the silver screen.
The duo are all set to pen the script with Stoller also expected to be on directing duties.
This will be the seventh big screen appearance for the Muppets, beginning with The Muppets Movie sin 1979.
They were last seen in 1999 in Muppets From Space.
-Transformers and The Island director Michael Bay is in talks with Paramount Studios to remake classic
horror movie Rosemary’s Baby.
The original film was released in 1968 and was directed by Roman Polanski.
It followed a young couple who discover that hey are to have a baby, with Rosemary becoming pregnant under mysterious circumstances.
It is believed that Bay would act as a producer on the re-make alongside Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
A writer to develop the script is yet to be found.
-The 32nd movie in the Carry On franchise, Carry On London, has been given the go ahead and could be released by the end of the year.
The script, which has already been approved, centres on a limo hire service that is taking celebs to the British version of the Oscars, the Herberts.
Nobody has been officially announced in terms of cast, Shaun Williamson had been liked to the lead role but dropped out when the film was delayed in 2004.
-Ultrviolent and Equlibrium director Kurt Wimmer is being lined up to write and direct the big screen adaptation of hit computer game Metal Gear Solid.
Metal Gear Solid is just one in a recent string of successful games
, including Hitman, Doom and Resident Evil, that has been adapted for the big screen.
Len Wiseman To Direct Shell Game March 12, 2008
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-Underworld and Die Hard 4.0 director Len Wiseman is to direct new action movie Shell Game.
The sci-fi movie is set in the future and follows a detective who is dealing with a moral dilemma as he leads an investigation into the black market.
The screenplay had originally been written by Justin Bondi and Andrew Lundington but Wiseman and Chris Morgan have begun work on the most recent draft.
The director will also handle the production.
-St Trinians director Oliver Parker is planning another adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray.
Based on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray the film centres around Gray, no mention of casting, who shows no sign of ageing as he leads a corrupt life.
But the sins of his lifestyle are shown in the portrait that he hides in his attic.
-Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct Harbinger, based on Valiant’s comic.
The comic was a huge hit during the early nineties and followed a group of humans with powers that can be unlocked by ‘omega’ harbingers.
The story centres around teenager Pete Stanchek who has to fight another ‘omega’ who hasn’t used his powers for good becoming an evil corporate millionaire.
-According to Variety British filmmaker Neil Marshall is to write and direct Sacrilege, a horror film that is set in the Old West.
Although the film’s plot is being kept under tight wraps it’s been hinted that the film will have themes of isolation and paranoia and was influenced bu The Thing.
-1970s cult monster movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is to be given the 21st Century treatment in a remake.
Creators of the web series Ask a Ninja Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine are penning a new version of the movie that was originally released in 1978.
Nichols will also make his directorial debut with this project.
A Fourth Pirates Film On The Horizon March 6, 2008
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-While everyone may have thought that the success, and highly unexpected, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise had sailed into the sunset at the end of At World’s End it has been reported that Disney are planning a fourth movie.
The film is supposedly scheduled to be released in 2011 however no plot, cast members or director was hinted at in this report.
However many will assume that Johnny Depp
will be tied to this project as Captain Jack Sparrow, the character that made these movies such a success.
During promotion for the third instalment the popular actor did admit that he would be open to returning to this character in the future.
-The Weinstein Company has acquired the rights to Rita Marley’s account of living with reggae star Bob Marley, No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.
It is believed that the film would follow Rita and Bob Marley rocky relationship which includes the birth of their children, his affairs and an assassination attempt.
No cast has yet been named.
This would not be the first time a Marley production has tried to tell the singer’s story as Warner Bros tried to get together a project based on Timothy White’s book Catch a Fire.
-Warner Bros, now the writer’s strike is over, are now moving forward to get The Justice League project off the ground.
Amendments are being made to the script and casting is going ahead in the hope that the film will be in cinemas by 2009.
The Justice League, based on the popular DC Comic, brings together some of the most beloved superheroes including Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Rumoured to have already been cast is the O.C’s Adam Brody as the Flash, rapper Common as the Green Lantern, and Megan Gale as Wonder Woman.
What roles Superman and Batman will have in the new project is yet to be determined with both characters having stand alone projects. Batman actor Christian Bale claimed that he would not take part in the Justice League movies.
-Another comic book project being eyed up by Marvel is a CGI animated version of Avengers after seeing the success of Beowulf.
The Avengers, like the Justice League, are a superhero team that Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and the Hulk.
-Terminator looks set to return to the big screen by 2009 Warner Bros have announced that Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins will be in cinemas in just over twelve months on May 22.
The film, which stars Christian Bale, is expected to begin shooting on May 5, after the actor wraps on Michael Mann’s Public Enemies with Johnny Depp.
The plot of the latest movie in the Terminator franchise is being kept a closely guarded secret but is rumoured to part of a three picture arc.
-Director David Gordon Green has announced that he will be remaking Dario Argento’s cult horror film Suspiria.
The original film which centres on a ballet academy where a young student realises that the teacher are witches is a dramatic change for the director who brought us Snow Angels and George Washington.