• 'The Lazarus Effect' Trailer: Olivia Wilde Is Back From The Dead

    The Lazarus Effect starts out looking like a riff on Flatliners, that early ‘90s film that put dressed a bunch of budding superstars in lab coats and watched as they brought dead people back to life. Here, it’s a crew including Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover, Evan Peters and Sarah Bolger who are med students…

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  • Fox Lines Up 'Fantastic Four' Actor Shortlists

    What's the story with Fox's new Fantastic Four, to be directed by Josh Trank of Chronicle? Jeremy Slater scripted, and while there have been some small polishes done on that draft here and there, recently we heard that Simon Kinberg (Fox's current go-to guy with respect to comic book adaptations) was hired to do work…

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  • 'Fantastic Four' Screenwriter Working On 'The Exorcist' TV Series

    A TV series based on The Exorcist has been in the planning stages for a while, with Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin once set to oversee the development of a ten-episode series that would be directly linked to William Friedkin's film. That actually seemed like a pretty great idea. Now some things have…

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  • Seth Grahame-Smith Did A Polish On Josh Trank's 'Fantastic Four'

    Seth Grahame-Smith, the writer behind Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has been hired by 20th Century Fox to do a polish on Josh Trank's reboot of Fantastic Four. Matthew Vaughn recently came on as a producer and the studio has set a release date of March 6, 2015. Jeremy Slater wrote the original…

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  • The 2012 Black List: The Year's Hottest Unproduced Screenplays

    Just as we're enjoying the last of 2012's cinematic offerings, the latest edition of the Black List has hit the web. The annual survey highlights the hottest unproduced screenplays of the year, as based on the votes of hundreds of executives. The term "unproduced" is used rather vaguely here. Some of these scripts (like Ivan…

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  • 'Fantastic Four' To Be Scripted By Jeremy Slater

    When some of the details on Fox's new Fantastic Four film were announced a couple days ago -- primarily that Chronicle director Josh Trank would indeed direct the new film -- one detail was not reported. That was the name of the film's screenwriter, who has been developing the new take on the classic Marvel…

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  • Script Sales: Kurtzman And Orci Produce Airport Thriller From Writer Jeremy Slater; Hitman Producers Option Horror-Thriller 'Suspension'

    Writers turned producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Alias, Transformers, Star Trek) have put together a pitch for a thriller set in an airport and set it in motion at DreamWorks. The key element of the equation is their partner in the pitch: screenwriter Jeremy Slater, whose work has ended up on the Black List…

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