Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is in talks to helm Motorcade for DreamWorks. Billy Ray’s (Breach, Flightplan) screenplay is an action-thriller about a terrorist group that assaults the President of the United States’ motorcade as it makes its way across Los Angeles. Sounds like an interesting premise for an action flick but I’m more concerned about what this could mean for Wiseman’s big screen adaptation of Gears of War.
source: Variety

Last year it was reported that Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman was in talks with New Line to develop and direct a big screen adaptation of the popular X-Box 360 video game Gears of War. A year later, and the project has now been officially announced. Speculation first began when Wiseman featured the game in the fourth Die Hard film. Wiseman will develop the story with Chris Morgan, whose credits include Wanted and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. I know, not a hugely promising resume. Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriter Stuart Beattie wrote a draft of the film last year. IESB gave that script a 3 [...]

The good guys at AintitCool have some great news tonight - Bret Ratner is NOT directing the Escape from New York remake! Did you read that? The Ratner is not going to ruin the Snake Pliskin after all!
Apparently the Rush Hour “director” (notice the obvious quotation marks) was given an “achievement in cinema” award at the Savannah Film Festival. Basically, it’s one of those film festival awards where whoever they can get to show up gets an award (a lot of regional film festivals play this game). Anyway, Ratner was asked about the Escape remake, and said that it is happening, but without him attached.
We have no idea who will [...]

AintItCool is reporting a rumor that Brett Ratner might be replacing Len Wiseman to direct New Line’s big screen remake of Escape From New York. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a huge fan of Wiseman (Underworld), but no one can argue that he knows how direct action and has a great sense of production design (something that could have benefited this remake).
IESB is confirming the story is fact, which is really unfortunate. They are also reporting that Wiseman is also off of the Gears of War video game to movie adaptation, and that the film might not get made due to budget concerns (I’m sure this story will be [...]

IESB is reporting that that Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is currently in talks with New Line Cinema to develop and direct both a big screen adaptation of the popular X-Box 360 video game Gears of War and the announced Escape from New York remake.
On March 20th, it was announced that New Line Cinema had purchased the rights to make a Gears of War film, with Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screenwriter Stuart Beattie writing the script along with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who will be producing it. CAA conducted the auction, which featured a 21 page treatment [...]

We usually try not to focus on the personal lives of actors or directors, but this caught our eye. Someone has posted on craigslist claiming to be a director looking for a date to a big hollywood movie premiere which is happening the last week of June. You can read the posting below followed by our thoughts on which director it could be (if this is in fact real):
director needs a (fake) date for a (real) movie premiere - m4m - 33
As bizarre as this sounds, I am looking for a date for a movie premiere. I directed a movie and it’s premiering the last week in June. I want [...]

The full length theatrical trailer for Live Free or Die Hard is now online. Am I the only one who still prefers the original (now international) title, Die Hard 4.0?