'Counterpart' Canceled At Starz After Two Seasons, But It Might Be Picked Up Elsewhere
News of Counterpart being canceled at Starz surfaced today, but Media Rights Capital is shopping the series around to other streaming services.
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How 'Counterpart' Creator Justin Marks Created Two Worlds With Very Specific Rules [Interview]
In our Counterpart interview, series creator Justin Marks explains how he created two worlds...and wrote a 100 page book about how they work.
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'The Jungle Book 2' Will Resurrect Unused Disney Ideas, Explore More Rudyard Kipling Stories [TCA 2018]
Screenwriter Justin Marks teased the direction The Jungle Book 2 will take, including adapting more of Rudyard Kipling's stories and unused Disney material.
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'Top Gun 2' Gets A New Writer, Still On Track For July 2019 Despite Tom Cruise Inury
Jerry Bruckheimer revealed a new Top Gun 2 writer has been brought on board, and production shouldn't be delayed by Tom Cruie's Mission: Impossible injury.
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'The Jungle Book' Review: How Disney's Latest Live-Action Adventure Justifies The Cinematic Experience
Read our The Jungle Book review. Jon Favreau directs the live-action update of Disney's 1967 animated film. Neel Sethi, Idris Elba, and Ben Kingsley star.
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Disney Fires Up A 'Jungle Book' Sequel; Director Jon Favreau In Talks To Return
A Jungle Book sequel is coming. Director Jon Favreau and screenwriter Justin Marks are in talks to return for the Disney adventure.
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Skydance Chief Says Of 'Top Gun 2,' "There Is No Top Gun Without Maverick"
Top Gun 2 is still in the works, and the exploration of the modern world of aerial combat won't be complete without Maverick, says the head of Skydance.
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David Ayer Directing DC Comics Adaptation 'Suicide Squad'
Warner Bros. wants David Ayer for Suicide Squad, based on the DC Comics book about a bunch of supervillains on a black-ops mission for the government.
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'Top Gun 2' Gets 'Jungle Book' Writer Justin Marks
Top Gun 2 will be written by Justin Marks, the scribe behind Disney's upcoming The Jungle Book. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing and Tom Cruise will star.
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'Dreadstar' And 'Federal Bureau Of Physics' Films In Development
Comics to film news: a Federal Bureau of Physics film and a movie based on Dreadstar are both newly in development.
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Jon Favreau In Talks To Direct 'The Jungle Book'
Jon Favreau is in talks to finally make that big budget Disney family movie we're been waiting for. No, not Magic Kingdom. Instead, the director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2 is in negotiations to direct a new version of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale The Jungle Book. Deadline broke the news of the film, which…
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Disney Making A Live-Action Version Of 'The Jungle Book'
Alice in Wonderland's $1 billion box office take got Disney wondering which of their other animated features they could do over as live-action films. Not surprisingly, the answer has been "a lot of them." There's the Sleeping Beauty retelling Maleficent coming next year, and the Kenneth Branagh-directed Cinderella due out the year after that. The…
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Josh Trank's 'Shadow Of The Colossus' Adaptation Adds 'Hanna' Screenwriter
Josh Trank will probably be spending most of the next few years on the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot, but even as he gets that figured out another of his projects has taken a step forward. The trades are reporting that writer Seth Lochhead has just been tapped to pen Shadow of the Colossus, a video game…
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Not Dead Yet: New Screenwriter For Disney's 'King Of The Elves;' He-Man Reboot Still Gestating At Sony
Some movies are born easily: they represent a whole bunch of factors like script, talent and money that happen to be in the same place at the same time. Others aren't born so easily, and lurch towards screens in fits and starts. Case in point: Disney's animated adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story,…
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Rod Lurie To Direct 'Borderline'
Rod Lurie is putting the finishing talks on his remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, and now he's been set to direct an on the run thriller called Borderline. There's nothing strange in that chain of events, but the trade break that announces this one references another Sam Peckinpah film, The Getaway. Coincidence, right? Probably.…
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Forest Bathing: Your Guide To The Self-Care Trend
Forest bathing is a way to regroup, be mindful, and soak up all the benefits of being in nature.
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Sci-Fi Short 'The Raven' Lands At Universal; Feature Version May Star Mark Wahlberg
The way that short films have been able to lead to feature deals with studios in the past year is rather stunning. The success of Neill Blomkamp, who went from the short Alive in Joburg to the smash success of District 9, helped pave the way for development deals for the filmmakers behind The Gift,…
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Troubled Projects: Warner Brothers Pulls Out Of Masters Of The Universe; Point Break 2 Is Dead?
We've recently received word that a couple of productions have hit some pretty major road bumps. First up, according to Variety, Warner Brothers has pulled out of the Masters of the Universe project. Universe has had a pretty troubled history all around: When a script review for Justin Marks Grayskull: Masters of the Universe script…
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New Screenwriter To Board Super Max
New news on Super Max has been a long time coming. The state of play was this: Justin Marks was scripting, David Goyer was producing, DC comics' Green Arrow was the lead character and the plot would see him incarcerated in the tip-topper most high security prison in the DC universe, framed for a crime…
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Producers Of The Dark Knight And The International Reform Voltron
Atlas Entertainment is developing a live-action Voltron movie. Producers Charles Roven (The Dark Knight), Richard Suckle (The International) and Steve Alexander have acquired the rights to make a film based on the Japanese anime property after several years in development at various production companies. The live-action project has been in development since 2004, and interest…
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Braveheart Scribe Hired To Rewrite Captain Nemo
Braveheart scribe Randall Wallace has been hired to rewrite Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, which is being developed for McG. Not a good sign for the project, which has already had a couple notable writers. Geek screenwriter Justin Marks (Masters of the Universe, Super Max) was hired in February to rewrite Bill Marsilli's…
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Sony Is Developing A Shadow Of The Colossus Movie
In the past I've polled some of my video gamer friends, asking them what video games they would like to see turned into a big screen movie. Shadow of the Colossus is one of the games which always seems to make the wish list. THR reports that screenwriter Justin Marks has been hired to write…
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Justin Marks To Rewrite McG's Captain Nemo
Justin Marks has been hired by Disney to rewrite 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, which McG is attached to direct. Marks is well known in Hollywood as a screenwriter who gets the geek niche, and has turned in drafts for Masters of the Universe, Super Max (The Green Arrow jailbreak movie), Voltron, Hack/Slash…
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Kung-Fu Panda Director To Helm He-Man
Rumors of He-Man's death have been greatly exaggerated. LatinoReview has word that Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson might now be attached to the project after knocking one home in a pitch to Joel Silver's production company. Stevenson has an extensive background in art direction and animation, starting out as a character designer on The…
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Grayskull Is Dead
You might remember that a few month ago, a review of Justin Marks' screenplay for the live action He-Man movie Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe was creating some big buzz on the interwebs. Phrases were being tossed around like "fanboy masterpiece" and the story was described as "Lord of the Rings meets The Matrix…
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Justin Marks Writing New Children Of Men-Style Sci-Fi Film
Immediately following a Devil's Due panel in which he discussed the Hack/Slash adaptation that's coming to the big screen, I had the opportunity to speak briefly with Justin Marks, the writer behind Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and the recently well-reviewed and much anticipated Grayskull: Masters of the Universe script. During the panel, I…
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Warner Bros. And Peter Segal Doing Jonny Quest? Supermax Now Titled Green Arrow
IESB speculates that director Peter Segal, currently attached to helm a Shazam feature for Warner Bros., might also be the man who brings the studio's planned tentpole, Jonny Quest, to the world as well for Summer '09. Apparently the script by Dan Mazeau is quite strong and in better shooting condition than Billy Batson and…
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