THE ADDAMS FAMILY TV Revamp From Tim Burton In The Works!
Your television programming could be getting creepy, spooky, mysterious, and did I mention ooky?
Your television programming could be getting creepy, spooky, mysterious, and did I mention ooky?
George Miller’s return to the dystopian outback desert wasteland in 2015 with Mad Max: Fury Road drew praise and potential by its release. Now, the word is developments are officially underway to bring back to life the character of Furiosa for Warner Bros. Pictures, as reported by the trades on Tuesday.
It was back in 2017 when Deadline first reported efforts by Studio 8 to advance Black, an independent comic book birthed into fruition and crowdfunded a year prior from creators Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3 of Black Mask Studios, with Black Mask Studio’s Matteo Pizzolo also joining as producer.
While Hollywood has the Marvel Cinematic Universe with others studios doling out their own comic book movie repetoire, we’ve also seen Russia, and places throughout Asia emerge with their own attempts of late, to launch a superhero franchise IP on the big screen.
Fifteen years since launching into video game franchise fruition prior to a 2007 live-action take from Takashi Miike, fans of the Ryu Ga Gotoku (Like A Dragon) franchise are officially on deck to a new feature film offering, according to Variety’s Dave McNary.
Deadpool 2 director David Leitch is still plotting Bullet Train for Sony, but thanks to Universal, the 87Eleven stunt multi-hyphenate who’s spent since 2014 leaving an impression in the director’s chair will soon bring to life a feature adaptation based on the 1981 ABC series, The Fall Guy.
HBO Max is in active development with a straight-to-series order for Oh f*ck, it’s Peacemaker!, as announced by WarnerMedia on Wednesday. The new series will explore the origins of the Peacemaker character, the master of weapons, tying in to the highly anticipated upcoming DC adaptation, The Suicide Squad film, directed by James Gunn and currently aiming for an August 6, 2021 release.
The word from Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline is that Sony Pictures has acquired rights to AfterShock Comics’s forthcoming comic book series, The Kaiju Score, publishing November 25.
The team behind the current Indiegogo campaign for female-fronted sci-fi action thriller, The Hunt: Savage Within, is announcing a thirty-day extension as of Wednesday. Initial crowdfunding for the project launched on July 21 before hitting a $4,000 milestone – less than half of the current goal which is $10,000, but still stipulates a considerable threshold for the project according to writer/director Fabien Garcia.
Chad Stahelski has a great thing going with Lionsgate following the success of the John Wick franchise thusfar. He’s got television AND feature spin-off in the works, on top of two more back-to-back movies to culminate the hitman pentalogy, in addition to a new incarnation of Highlander, AND he’s producing a new take on CJ’s The Man From Nowhere for New Line.
As of this week, James Wan is reportedly in the mix to join Spyglass Media Group’s latest developmental efforts to finally bring the hit action series, Knight Rider, to the big screen. The report cites that Wan will produce the new film with Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear, from a script by Ratchet & Clank video game franchise writer T.J. Fixman. Judson Scott will exec produce.
The trades are all reporting and confirming that Keanu Reeves will shoot the next two installments of the John Wick franchise next year, thus adding a fifth to the hit action franchise that launched in 2014.
Stunt honcho and filmmaker Chad Stahelski, and screenwriter Derek Kolstad, have had eyes on a number of film projects ever since the current trilogy success of Lionsgate’s hitman film franchise, John Wick.
Rights to Claudia Tan’s award-winning Wattpad publication, Perfect Addiction, is now in the hands of Constantin Film who announced acquisition on Tuesday. Stephanie Sanditz (Infernal Devices, Beautiful Bastard, FX series Pyramid) is set to pen the script for a film that Constantin says “balances a Rocky-esque underdog story and a salacious romance in a sexy and gripping package”.
It’s been eight years since Ubisoft property, Splinter Cell, began circling the internets and teasing a live action adaptation with Tom Hardy in the Sam Fisher role, whilst changing several hands between producers and writers.
According to Pierce Conran at Kobiz, actress Son Ye-jin (The Pirates, The Negotiation) and Lee Sun-kyun (Parasite, Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage), will headline the film with actor Sam Worthington (Avatar franchise).
Following last year’s reported deal on STX films actioner, Rogue, Deadline is reporting on a new action film in development titled Legacy. The project is being housed at Village Roadshow Pictures with T.J. Fixman partnering with Phantom Four Films.
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