Interview with the Vampire star Christian Slater has signed on to join James Franco and Amber Heard in Pamela Romanowsky's adaptation of The Adderall Diaries, a memoir by Stephen Elliot. Franco plays Elliot, a writer who becomes obsessed with a sensational murder case and decides to write a book about it.
Their last collaboration, sappy sports drama The Blind Side, won Sandra Bullock an Oscar and received a nomination for Best Picture, and now director John Lee Hancock and producer Gil Netter are set to team up again, for an untitled biopic centering on former Major League Baseball all-star Lenny Dykstra.
Deadline reports that AMC is in the midst of turning The Son, a bestselling 2013 novel by Philipp Meyer, into a drama series. Meyer is executive-producing alongside Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, who developed Netflix's horror series Hemlock Grove based on McGreevy's novel, and Michael Connolly, an executive-producer on Hemlock Grove.
Fresh off her incredible turn in this summer's comedy hit Neighbors, actress Rose Byrne has become one of the hottest commodities in the industry. So it doesn't come as much of a surprise that Byrne's Neighbors producers (Seth Rogen's Point Grey Pictures, Good Universe) and studio (Universal) are keenly interested in working with her again, and as soon as possible. Although, the part that they have in mind for her may surprise you. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Byrne is being eyed for a supporting role in a film called The Something, about astronauts who end up lost in space.
Blumhouse Productions is best known for its contributions to the horror genre, with such frightfests as Sinister, Insidious and The Purge in its body of work. But if you take one look at its upcoming slate, you'll begin to understand that Blumhouse is looking to broaden its horizons in a big way. One of the most curious projects in the works over at the studio is a revenge Western called In A Valley of Violence. Though Ti West (The House of the Devil) scribed and also directed, the film still seems more than a little out of the way for the horror-heavy studio. That doesn't mean, however, that we're not looking forward to it, particularly with the cast West has lined up. Today, James Ransone joined the cast, which already boasts Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Karen Gillan and Taissa Farmiga.
Marvel has been having an extremely rough few days as far as their planned superhero blockbuster Ant-Man goes. First, script changes caused Edgar Wright, who had been trying to get the film made since 2003, to step away from the director's chair, largely shocking fans who had been looking forward to his take on the pint-sized hero for a long, long time. Then, potential replacements Adam McKay (The Other Guys) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (We're the Millers) each passed on the film, leaving Marvel scrambling. Ruben Fleischer has also been eyed, but he may be doing Ghostbusters 3. Now, if a recent report from Deadline is to believed, Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors) and Michael Dowse (What If) are in the mix.
One of the funniest big studio comedies to hit theaters in recent years would have to be 2010's The Other Guys, which found Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell playing two mismatched NYPD detectives who step up to the big leagues when they get on the trail of a shady capitalist. The stellar chemistry between the two actors was a big part of why that movie worked so well. Now, we're hearing that Paramount wants the two to team up again for a comedy called Daddy's Home.
Though the directing search that has preoccupied most media outlets over the past few days has been focused on Marvel's Ant-Man, which lost Edgar Wright and then had Adam McKay and Rawson Thurber pass in quick succession, Universal is busy looking for a helmer to take on another blockbuster: Snow White and the Huntsman 2.
It's been a while since we've heard anything about the David Yates-directed adaptation of Tarzan that's in the works over at Warner Bros. We learned in February that the studio had given Yates' film a firm release date of July 1st, 2016, and even before that we knew that Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) and Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) had signed on to play Tarzan and his love interest Jane, respectively.
Action aficionados will be happy to hear that Lucy, Luc Besson's action vehicle for The Avengers actress Scarlett Johansson, has been handed an R rating by the MPAA. Why, you may ask? Well, the official description from the MPAA explains that Lucy contains "strong violence, disturbing images, and sexuality."
