• 'Highlander' Reboot To Be Directed By 'Snow White And The Huntsman' Effects Supervisor

    The Highlander reboot has a new person calling the shots. After a revolving door of director attachments, Summit has set Snow White and the Huntsman second unit director and visual effects supervisor Cedric Nicolas-Troyan to direct the film. He'll shoot the script from Art Marcum and Matt Holloway that reportedly keeps pretty true to the original…

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  • Simon Crane Directing 'Hot Wheels' For Legendary

    Universal has the Fast and Furious films, DreamWorks now has the Need for Speed video game adaptation, and Legendary is working on a high-octane film version of Hot Wheels. And by "film version of" I mean "movie branded with the same name" as there's clearly no story to adapt from a long-running brand of little…

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  • Rumor Control: Ryan Reynolds Not Yet Confirmed For 'Highlander' Reboot

    Briefly: Not too long ago Ryan Reynolds was nominated to become the new champion decapitator at the center of the Highlander reboot. He would theoretically be stepping into the shoes formerly worn by Christopher Lambert, who played a Scottish Highlander who learns that he is born of an immortal bloodline. The catch is: immortality actually…

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  • Juan Carlos Fresnadillo In Talks To Reboot 'Highlander' [Updated]

    The reboot of Highlander, which Summit has been working on with various degrees of enthusiasm for the past couple years, is getting a new director. Justin Lin was signed to make the film, but walked not long ago. Now Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who directed 28 Weeks Later and now, four years later, has Intruders opening…

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  • Justin Lin Bows Out Of 'Highlander' Remake

    Justin Lin and his publicist are working overtime this week. The director has been doing a few interviews, and in the process dropping details about how he's still working on Terminator 5, the fact that he's got a sequence already prepped for Fast Six (or whatever it will be called) and the "ok, whatever" revelation…

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  • Paramount Planning 'Zoolander 2', 'TMNT', 'GI Joe 2' And More For 2012 And Beyond

    Briefly: Lot of news coming out of Viacom's quarterly earnings report today. For gamers, there's the news that Viacom is looking to sell Rock Band developer Harmonix. On the movie side, Viacom COO Tom Dooley listed several films that Viacom and Paramount are looking to have produced for release after September 2011. They include the…

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  • Iron Man Screenwriters Hired To Write 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

    Paramount Pictures have finally announced screenwriters for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie which has been in development Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes. HeatVision has learned that Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have been hired to write the new movie adaptation. The screenwriting duo also has credits on Punisher: War Zone, and…

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  • Fast & Furious Director To Remake Highlander

    Summit Entertainment has announced that Justin Lin will direct a re-imagination (ie reboot) of Highlander. Of course, Summit hopes that this reboot with "spur a new franchise for the studio." Lin made his name with the awesome High School-based indie crime drama Better Luck Tomorrow in 2002 (if you haven't seen it, add it to…

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  • Highlander Remake Coming From Iron Man Writers

    Rayyyden! Sorry, wrong movie, but at least I didn't intro with an iffy "there can only be one" joke. Writing team Art Marcum and Matt Holloway previously scribed Iron Man (btw: 9/10) as well as this December's Punisher: War Zone, and now they will envision a reboot for 1986's bit of sci-fi brilliance Highlander for…

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