• New 'Terminator' TV Series Takes Interesting Approach To Creating Expanded Universe

    Let's set aside the line of thought that suggests the Terminator storyline may have been strip-mined of good ideas at this point and examine this new wrinkle in the reboot process, because it is kind of perfect for the series. We know that Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, with her brother's Skydance Productions, is working on…

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  • Paramount Hiring Writers For 'Top Gun 2'

    Yep, the sequel/follow-up to Top Gun is still happening. Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, who were jointly responsible for one of the middle drafts of X-Men: First Class, are in talks to write Top Gun 2 (or whatever it will eventually be called) for Paramount and David Ellison's Skydance Productions. There's no plot to report…

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  • 'X-Men: First Class' Writers To Adapt Fantasy Novel 'The Magicians' For Fox

    Keeping with the trend of contemporary fantasy series, a la ABC's Once Upon a Time and NBC's Grimm, Fox has given a script order to an hourlong drama based on Lev Grossman's novel The Magicians. X-Men: First Class co-writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz have been tapped to write, with Michael London (Milk), Shawn Levy…

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  • Screenwriting Bits: Marti Noxon Rewriting 'Pride, Prejudice And Zombies;' Two 'Thor' Writers Developing Project For Peyton Reed

    We probably could have guess that this would happen: not long after taking the gig directing Price and Prejudice and Zombies for LionsGate, Craig Gillespie has brought Marti Noxon on to rewrite the David O. Russell script. In addition to having a resume that includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marti Noxon wrote the Fright Night…

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