'Cell' Trailer: John Cusack And Samuel L. Jackson Battle The Talking Dead
After years of development hell, the first Cell trailer is here, giving us a taste of Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack fighting cell phone zombies.
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Stephen King Casting Bits: Jay Baruchel Joins '10 O'Clock People', 'Cell' Adds Stacy Keach
Two of the four hundred or so Stephen King projects currently in development are making strides in casting. Jay Baruchel has signed on to lead The Ten O'Clock People, replacing Justin Long, while Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) and Stacy Keach (Nebraska) have joined John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in Cell. More details on both films…
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Samuel L. Jackson Joins '1408' Co-Star John Cusack In Stephen King's 'Cell'
John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson are following up 2007's 1408 with another Stephen King thriller. Jackson has just signed on to star with Cusack in Cell, not to be confused with 2000's The Cell. This one centers on the idea that cell phones can kill you, and we don't mean via brain cancer. Hit the…
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John Cusack To Star In Adaptation Of Stephen King's 'Cell'
Stephen King has been good to John Cusack. One of the actor's earliest roles was a minor part in Rob Reiner's Stand By Me, which adapted King's novella The Body, from Different Seasons. And then King's story 1408 provided the basis for a film of the same name that was a 2007 hit starring Cusack. Now…
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Stephen King News Pile-Up: Under The Dome To HBO, More Dark Tower, Cell Screenplay By King And More
While signing copies of his new novel Under the Dome in a Dundalk, Maryland Walmart last night, Stephen King also took part in a decent-length, rapid-fire Q&A that has already been posted to YouTube. You can see the whole thing below the break, or leave it up to me to tell you which bits and…
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Stephen King's Cell Now To Be A Miniseries From John Harrison
Originally, the Weinstein Brothers' planned for their option on Stephen King's novel Cell to translate into a feature film directed by Eli Roth. Recently though, Roth has confirmed that he's moved on from the project in favour of self-created works. So what next? According to a new report from Fangoria, the plan to realize the…
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Eli Roth's Big Budget PG-13 Sci-Fi Mass-Destruction Movie
Hostel/Cabin Fever writer/director Eli Roth is two weeks away from finishing a script for a science-fiction action film inspired by Cloverfield and Transformers. "This will be my first big-budget, PG-13, mass-destruction movie," Roth revealed. "I went total chaos and pandemonium. I feel like I pushed the violence in R movies about as far as I…
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34 Minute Q&A With Hostel: Part II Director Eli Roth
Last week I went to a screening of Hostel: Part II (which I really enjoyed). Eli Roth was in attendance and did a question and answer session following the screening. It was the first time Hostel 2 was screened for the public, so Roth was relieved to see that the audience loved the film. We…
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Mark Wahlberg Cast In M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening
Mark Wahlberg is set to star in M. Night Shyamalan's paranoid apocalyptic thriller The Happening. The Happening follows a family who must survive a natural global environmental crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Mother Nature is sick of our polluting ways and has decided that we must go. An invisible neurotoxin is admitted…
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Eli Roth Talks Stephen King's Cell
At the Grindhouse Junket we were able to grill Hostel 2 director Eli Roth about his big screen adaptation of Stephen Kin's The Cell, which is currently in development. Question: What's going on with Cell? Eli: Cell, the writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are writing it. They wrote 1408, Ed Wood, and The People…
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