Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have long since been the runaway success story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's highly underrated HBO show Project Greenlight. The pair were on the third season and wrote Feast, which lead them to write Saw IV through VII, a couple other movies and most recently, a draft of Guillermo…
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Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, In the Line of Fire) was once attached to the long-gestating film based on Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game. Now, years after moving on from that project, he is attached to another big sci-fi project. Mr. Petersen is currently set to direct an adaptation of the John Scalzi novel Old…
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We've heard a lot of back and forth about MGM's proposed Robocop remake, most of which is has to do with whether Darren Aronofsky, the director originally hired to tackle the film, is still part of the project. The last official word, in late summer '09, was that Aronosky was still part of the project,…
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Back in May, rumors ran wild that Brett Ratner might be directing a big screen adaptation of the popular video game series God of War. Bad news for video game fans, today's MGM press release for the Robocop reboot contained the following juicy tidbit: "David Self's credits include 13 Days and Road To Perdition. He…
Read MoreMGM has confirmed that Darren Aronofsky will direct the upcoming Robocop sequel/reboot. David Self (Road to Perdition) is tapped to write a script, which is rumored to take place in "Present day Los Angeles, 20 years after the termination of the RoboCop program, the city decides to reinstate the program." Phoenix Pictures' co-presidents Brad Fischer…
Read MoreActor Hugo Weaving (V For Vendetta, The Matrix) is set to star as Detective Aberline for director Joe Johnston in The Wolf Man. Weaving will join a cast that includes Anthony Hopkins (as the Wolf Man's father), Benicio del Toro (as the Wolf Man) and Emily Blunt (as the love interest). This is the first…
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