Jason Statham will star in Small Dark Look, a crime thriller that was originally developed as Eastern Promises 2, but will now be an original movie.
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The screenplay for Eastern Promises 2 has been repurposed into a completely different movie. The story will now be used for a crime film called Body Cross.
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This edition of sequel bits is heavy on the big macho movies, but we've got some indie work in here too. After the jump read about: A new poster is out for A Good Day To Die Hard, and the film will be released in IMAX Mark Wahlberg says Transformers 4 starts shooting starts in…
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As David Cronenberg does the US press rounds for his new film Cosmopolis, which opens limited this Friday the 17th and expands starting the week after, he's fielding some questions about his next film. The director often has several projects percolating, and the current time is no different. But one long-mooted film is apparently not…
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For the last couple years there have been rumors of a possible sequel to Eastern Promises, the film from David Cronenberg that starred Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel as members of the Russian mafia in London. While early reports today suggested that David Cronenberg won't direct, despite the fact that he was talking of doing…
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The biggest news today has been what people won't do, rather than movies they will. We started off with Steven Soderbergh's withdrawal from The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and now we move on to the fact that Joel Edgerton has said 'no' to 300: Battle of Artemisia, Fox has decided not to make David Cronenberg's sequel…
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Two years ago, in September 2009, we heard the fairly surprising news that David Cronenberg might direct a remake of the 1986 film The Fly for Fox. Thing is, that '86 film (which we celebrated not long ago) was also a remake, and also directed by Cronenberg. And if the idea of Cronenberg directing a…
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The ever-fruitful and edgy creative partnership between director David Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen continues, with today's announcement of a sequel to their captivating 2007 Russian mob film Eastern Promises. The pic above perfectly conveys our expectations. Deadline reports that producer Paul Webster is overseeing the project, which now has a completed script by Steve Knight,…
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