'Talented Mr. Ripley' TV Series In The Works From Steve Zaillian
A Talented Mr. Ripley TV series is in development from writer-director Steve Zaillian, with several networks vying for the project.
Read MoreA Talented Mr. Ripley TV series is in development from writer-director Steve Zaillian, with several networks vying for the project.
Read MoreThe Irishman filming this summer is great news for Martin Scorsese fans. The filmmaker will soon de-age Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.
Read MoreWe will see Robert De Niro digitally de-aged in The Irishman, the Martin Scorsese mob drama he's been attached to for years. Learn more about the film.
Read MoreWhat is up with the John Turturro foot condition subplot in the new HBO miniseries The Night Of? We explore some theories and find out from the showrunners.
Read MoreOne of James Gandolfini's last projects is picking up steam once again. At the time of his passing, the Sopranos actor had been working on an HBO miniseries called Criminal Justice. But since the network could not move ahead with the pilot they had already shot with him, there was some question of how the…
Read MoreDespite the terrible news of legendary film critic Roger Ebert's passing, the film about the man himself will go on. Steve James, the Oscar-nominated director of Hoop Dreams, took to Twitter to tell everyone that despite the tragic news, he and producers Martin Scorsese and Steve Zaillian will finish Life Itself, a documentary on the life of Roger…
Read MoreWhen Steven Spielberg officially fell away from the DreamWorks project Gods and Kings, leaving the director's chair open for potential occupation by Ang Lee, we knew that the film's sagging momentum would be an opportunity for Fox to push its own Moses movie forward. Ridley Scott has been developing the film, Exodus, at Fox. (Its relationship…
Read MoreBecause it was based on the first of a trilogy of books, David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was inspiring sequel talk even before the first film started shooting. Yet over a year since the film's theatrical release, Sony's made surprisingly little progress on The Girl Who Played With Fire. Some wondered if…
Read MoreNo matter how many projects Ridley Scott has on his plate, he always seems to find room for one more. The very busy filmmaker has just signed on to produce a remake -- I'm sorry, "reimagining" -- of The Day Britain Stopped, a BBC pseudo-documentary that aired in 2003. The disaster pic will see Scott…
Read MoreIt doesn't feel like the last time we reported on a US remake of TimeCrimes was almost a year ago. But it was back in January that Steven Zaillian was reported as the screenwriter responsible for the roadmap for the remake of Nacho Vigalondo's fan-favorite time-travel thriller. He was working from a previous draft from…
Read MoreEditor's Update: Entertainment Tonight has aired the full trailer for Moneyball (with only minor annoying voice over). Watch it now embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Eric B for the tip. If you wind the clock back to mid-2009 and took a look at /Film you'd find the film Moneyball as one of…
Read MoreAfter the success of Star Trek, Paramount decided to enter the Chris Pine business in a serious way. The company set the actor to star in Star Trek 2 and tapped him for the reboot of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character, who had previously been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. But…
Read MoreMartin Scorsese has a number of promising projects on his plate to follow Hugo Cabret: reps say he'll next make Silence, and then there is a possible indie version of The Wolf of Wall Street, with other movies on the far horizon. One of those is The Irishman, which has been talked up as a…
Read MoreBriefly: Paramount has been working on a revamp of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. Chris Pine is starring, making him the fourth actor in the role after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck, and Lost's Jack Bender is directing. Hossein Amini wrote a draft, then the studio picked up Adam Cozad's spec script Dubai,…
Read MoreThree years ago the Spanish sci-fi time-travel film TimeCrimes became a hit at Sundance, but by that point the film already had a following. In fact, it was almost exactly three years ago to the day that we heard United Artists would back a remake of the film with Steve Zaillian producing. Sadly, the revived…
Read MoreHere's good news and bad news. The good news is that, yes, confirming recent reports, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are still planning to be part of Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman, which is planned to star Robert De Niro as Mafia hitman Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran. The bad news is that in talking about…
Read MoreMartin Scorsese is still in production on Hugo Cabret -- which is reportedly moving slowly because of the director's learning curve with shooting in 3D -- but he says that The Irishman could shoot next year. That's the script formerly called I Heard You Paint Houses, which concerns famed Mafia hitman Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran,…
Read MoreNo one seems to be able to get a movie based on a Jonathan Lethem novel off the ground. The latest attempt may come from David Cronenberg, however, and he's got a pretty damn good track record when it comes to getting difficult material from the page to screen. (Think Dead Ringers, Crash, and Naked…
Read MoreIn the past couple weeks, the most widely-reported word on David Fincher's remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was that Brad Pitt was waiting on Steve Zaillian's first script draft, which was turned in on June 1. The belief was that Pitt was going to make a decision about starring in the film…
Read MoreHow many runs through a script can a studio take? Moneyball is supposed to shoot in a little over a month, after a year of wrangling and being on life support. Now Steve Zaillian, who wrote the draft that got the scrapped Steven Soderbergh version moving in the first place, is back on the picture.…
Read MoreIt doesn't look like he's getting to it any time soon, but after Martin Scorsese finishes The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the planned follow-up Silence (his 'Jesuit priest drama') there has been talk of finally making The Irishman, which would reunite the director with Robert De Niro. The Irishman is based on the book…
Read MoreAnother international phenomenon is about to get a US remake, probably before you've even had a chance to catch the original. Doesn't mean the Stateside do-over isn't sounding tasty, though... The biggest crowd pleaser at this year's Frightfest was the English speaking world's premiere of a smart, pointed thriller in the Silence of the Lambs…
Read MoreA month ago at the Telluride Film Festival, the UK crime trilogy Red Riding played to good critical reception. The reception didn't escape the notice of studio execs, and Columbia has picked up the rights to remake the trilogy. The studio is negotiating a deal to have Steve Zaillian script the remake for Ridley Scott…
Read MoreMartin Scorsese has added yet another movie project to his ever growing plate. The latest is an adaptation of Charles Brandt's 2005 novel I heard You Paint Houses. Schindler's List scribe Steve Zaillian has been hired to pen the adaptation and Robert De Niro is signed on to play Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, a mob…
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