David Elliot and Paul Lovett (GI JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA) have been tapped to write GARGOYLES for Disney. The project is not linked to the 90s Disney cartoon; it will reinterpret the mythological statues as guardian angels. And here’s the ultimate shocker: the studio is hoping to launch a franchise based on the creatures, including transmedia spinoffs and merchandising.
David Goyer has been hired to rewrite David Callaham‘s draft of GODZILLA for Legendary. Lin Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment are also producing the remake of the mega-hit. Should be a giant lizard of a good time.*
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Bess Wohl will adapt THE LUXE for Fake Empire (GOSSIP GIRL) and Alloy Entertainment (PRETTY LITTLE LIARS). The project, based off a dramatic young adult novel series (as these things tend to be), is set up at Paramount.
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Neil Burger has signed on to write and direct the adaptation of popular video game UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE.
Will Smith and Jay-Z have tapped Emma Thompson to write ANNIE, a vehicle for Smith’s daughter Willow.
Jason Keller (MACHINE GUN PREACHER, SNOW WHITE) has been hired to rewrite the adaptation of THE PASSAGE. Matt Reeves is set to direct.
Big ups to our friends over at Tracking-Board.com for scooping news on the next installment of The Hangover franchise: In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Craig Mazin is returning to write The Hangover 3. Mazin has writing credit with Scot Armstrong and director Todd Phillips on The Hangover 2, which made nearly $200 million worldwide in its first five days of release.
We’re betting they end up in Rio next time…
David Mandel (THE DICTATOR) is in negotiations to write the script for FLETCH, the reboot of the 1985 classic starring Chevy Chase.
Justin Rhodes has been hired to pen the BRAT PACK screenplay for Ars Nova, based on the graphic novel by Rick Veitch. The story follows a group of superheroes who must find new sidekicks after a super villain kills off the last one.
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