There's a new Transporter series in production. The picture being made now is called Transporter Legacy and stars Ed Skrein as the character originated by Jason Statham in 2002. Game of Thrones fans will recognize Skrein as the original actor who played the mercenary Daario Naharis in the series' third season. In fact, this new Transporter series is…
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The Assassin's Creed movie is getting a rewrite from Bill Collage and Adam Cooper, who wrote Ridley Scott's Exodus. (Also the Jonah Hill comedy Accepted.)
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Briefly: Ridley Scott is prepping Exodus, his film about Moses, at Fox. Christian Bale is set to play Moses, and now Scott is looking to Joel Edgerton to play Ramses (or Ramesses II). The actor is in early talks now for the role. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage scripted the film, and Steven Zaillian did a rewrite.…
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When 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…
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It's been a while since we've received any significant updates on Timur Bekmambetov's action-oriented Moby Dick adaptation, but the project's apparently still simmering over at Universal and has just brought in a new writer to help with one specific stumbling block: the budget. Over the past year, we've seen several big action adaptations get scrapped…
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Abraham Lincoln is the subject of two films currently in production, but what about our nation's first President? American legend George Washington is getting into the movie business in a big way as Darren Aronofsky is shopping around an Unforgiven-style biopic of the president called The General. The plan is that he'll produce and direct. Paramount…
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It feels like just about every network on TV has a Western project in the works by this point, but one of the most recently announced ones also sounds like it could be one of the most promising. Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are slated to team up for a Western drama about Doc Holliday,…
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The story of Marco Polo has been brought to the screen before and will probably be adapted many times in the future. The next film about the explorer could be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) as Warner Bros. has attached the director to a project based on a pitch by Adam Cooper and…
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The same writing team hired to make a graphic-novel style, adventurous take on Moby Dick for Timur Bekmambetov and Universal have sold a pitch to Fox that would see them re-telling the story of Moses in the style of Zack Snyder's 300. Yep, Moses will soon be using the stone tablets bearing God's laws to…
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In what the trades are dryly referring to as a "reimagining" and "splashy," Universal Pictures has hired Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) to direct a new version of the literary classic, Moby Dick, that will "apply the visual flourish he displayed on the [studio's] summer hit Wanted." So, 360 flips and Angelina Jolie's ass? It's pointless…
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