Paul Rudd Getting Serious With World War II Thriller 'The Catcher Was A Spy'
Learn about the Paul Rudd The Catcher Was a Spy project. Rudd will lead the World War II thriller about Moe Berg, a pro baseball player and OSS spy.
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'Saving Private Ryan' Writer Robert Rodat Rewriting 'Thor 2'
Marvel's development of a sequel to this past summer's Thor has turned into a minor spectacle. Brian Kirk, a TV director with recent experience on Game of Thrones, was nearly hired, but walked away over "creative and financial sticking points that arose during negotiations." Patty Jenkins, whose last feature was the Oscar-winning Monster, was hired,…
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Sam Raimi Not Fully Committed To Direct Oz, Still Excited About Making World Of Warcraft
Couple weeks ago, the big news was that Sam Raimi had not only been offered the director's chair on Disney's Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, the Great and Powerful, but that he'd taken the job. And while the idea of Raimi directing a big-budget 3D Oz film for Disney doesn't seem like the greatest move…
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Shocker! Roland Emmerich Will Film Asimov's Foundation Trilogy As 3D Mo-Cap Epic
This is a story with details so obvious and so easily expected that there is barely any reason to report them. Really, I'm just doing this to bum out the hardcore Isaac Asimov purists who are already despondent at the idea of Roland Emmerich getting his hands on the Foundation Trilogy. It's all in the…
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Noah Wyle Cast In Steven Spielberg's Alien Invasion Television Pilot
At the upfronts last month, TNT announced that they had ordered a piliot for a new sci-fi alien invasion television series executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Scirpted by Academy Award-nominated Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat, and based on an idea co-conceived with Spielberg, the series would be set six months after aliens decimated mankind.…
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Kevin Lima's Tom Thumb
How does a big screen adaptation of Tom Thumb sound to you? Yeah, not too exciting. What if I told you that Kevin Lima, the guy who directed Disney's Enchanted is attached? Still not sold? What if I told you that Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat has been hired to write the script? Sounding…
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