Jared Leto Will Star In Post-WWII Action-Thriller 'The Outsider'
Jared Leto in The Outsider will play a POW who escapes. Once free, he'll have to survive the criminal underworld. Learn more about the post-WWII thriller.
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New Bourne Film Gets New Writer
There's a new Bourne writer, as Andrew Baldwin has been hired to write the next adventure of Jeremy Renner's successor to Jason Bourne.
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Takashi Miike's Yakuza Film With Tom Hardy Gets Funding
Briefly: Announced a few months ago, The Outsider, a Yakuza film starring Tom Hardy and directed by Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi the Killer, Audition), just got a shot of financial adrenaline. The movie now has significant funding from Worldview Entertainment, likely thanks to the fact that such a film starring Hardy is a guaranteed…
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The 2011 Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays
Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars…
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New Writer Recruited For Nicolas Winding Refn's Remake Of 'Logan's Run'
Producer Joel Silver has been developing a remake of the 1976 movie Logan's Run for years. Carl Erik Rinsch was set to direct it last year, with Bryan Singer and James McTeigue attached before him. Then, in a surprise move, Bronson and Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn was hired to make Logan's Run. He brought…
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Timur Bekmambetov On Red Asphalt?
Since Wanted 2 fell into development heck a couple months back, Wanted/Night Watch helmer Timur Bekmambetov has been searching for his next project. Last week we reported that William Morris was going out to various studios with a big screen adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's novel Casebook of Victor Frankenstein with Bekmambetov attached to direct. The…
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