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THE RHYTHM SECTION: Paramount Partners On Potential Spy Thriller Franchise With IM Global, EON

Paramount Pictures is reportedly taking initiative as of Wednesday’s news regarding potential spy thriller franchise, The Rhythm Section, which has The Shallows star Blake Lively headlining for The Handmaid’s Tale helmer Reed Morano. In a deal brokered by WME Global, the studio is boarding the film in partnership with IM Global and EON Productions whose Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (James Bond/007 film series) will mark this as their first-ever step outward into a new IP, and with a female lead no less. The book series, for which the film is being pitched as in the vein of Jason Bourne and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has four installments to date, published by HarperCollins as of 1999 along with efforts reported as early as 2005 by New Line Cinema to advance an adaptation of their own that never came through. Stuart Ford is executive producing along with Greg Shapiro and British […]

JUDGE DREDD: MEGA CITY ONE Announced For Live-Action Television Series Development

Lee B. Golden III

It wouldn’t be wrong to call the death of a sequel to Pete Travis’s 2012 3D adaptation of iconic 2000 A.D. comic property, Dredd, a tragedy. It is, and always will be as but a reminder of what happens when a film is poorly marketed and people aren’t paying attention. That said, there was still talk of a possible animation advancement by way of the film’s producer, Adi Shankar back in February. I know my own disfavor with that idea stood well as did some others, although now it seems IM Global and U.K. based games developer and publisher are here, promptly throwing that notion under the bus with the announcement of a live-action drama titled Judge Dredd: Mega City One. The EW exclusive posted on Wednesday described the series as “…an ensemble drama about a team of Judges — futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and […]