Tom Cruise Never Stops Working, Could Shoot Moon Heist Flick Before ‘M:I — 6’
Cruise and his Edge of Tomorrow and Mena director Doug Liman are looking to work together again on Luna Park, a project Liman has apparently been developing for years. Now, Paramount and Skydance, the team behind the Mission: Impossible series, have brought on Jason Fuchs to write the latest draft for the project. Cruise is currently shooting Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and would squeeze Luna Park in before next summer’s M:I — 6 shoot. (COL)
On Second Thought, HBO Decides Not To Go Forward With a Second Season Of ‘The Brink’ After All
Cable net has cancelled the dark geopolitical satire starring Tim Robbins and Jack Black, after one season. Which isn’t too shocking at first glance, given that the series never garnered much buzz and earned only modest ratings. What makes it weird is that the news comes after HBO already renewed The Brink for Season 2, way back in July. (SF)
Weinsteins Act Fast, Grab American Rights To Buzzy ‘HHhH’
In the run-up to AFM, TWC has acquired U.S. rights to the Nazi-era thriller with Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Mia Wasikowska and Jack Reynor. Directed by French up-and-comer Cedric Jimenez and based on Laurent Binet’s eponymous international bestseller that won the prestigious Goncourt prize, film is a WWII-set drama depicting the meteoric rise and fall of Reinhard Heydrich, the most lethal man in Hitler’s cabinet. (VAR)
Rooney Mara, Nicholas Hoult Set To Star In Sci-Fi Love Story ‘The Discovery’
Project is a sci-fi love story set in a world where the existence of the afterlife is scientifically proven. Charlie McDowell, who helmed The One I Love, will direct. McDowell and Justin Lader, who co-wrote The One I Love together, reunited to write The Discovery. Hoult plays the son of the man responsible for this discovery and Mara plays a woman he falls in love with whose life is tinged by a tragic past. Shooting is slated for January in Rhode Island. (HV)
Ryan Reynolds Finds ‘Truth In Advertising’ For A New Roger Michell-Directed Dreamed
Reynolds will be Fin Dolan, a hard working sort at an advertising company. His boss asks him to cancel his Christmas holidays to work on a new campaign, but when his best friend announces her engagement and his estranged father is admitted to the hospital at the same time, he starts to question the direction is life is taking. Novelist John Kenney adapted from his own award-winning book. (EMP)
CBS Believes In ‘Life In Pieces’, Gives Freshman Comedy a Full Year Order
The back-nine order for the freshman sitcom follows the first Monday that the show didn’t even air, with a special Supergirl launch airing in its place. Life in Pieces next moves to Thursday on Nov. 5th, retaining its Big Bang Theory lead-in, but the ensemble family comedy has thus far done well on Mondays. It’s averaging 10.3 million viewers and a 2.9 rating among adults 18-49 in it’s latest live-plus-seven day showings. (LF)
ABC Nabs Murder Mystery ‘The Party’ From Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage
In their first writing collaboration since creating Gossip Girl nine years ago, the producing partners are set to write and executive produce the drama project for ABC and ABC Studios. Show is described as a twisted family drama that follows a murder investigation told over the course of 24 hours. The case begins at a celebration that is interrupted when a body is found floating in the pool. Through flashbacks, the mystery paints every guest as a possible suspect.(DH)
With One Western In Theaters and Another Out Christmas Day, Kurt Russell Has Some Thoughts To Share
You want to follow Kurt Russell anywhere. Even into the weird wilderness that a tribe of cannibalistic cave-dwellers call home. He’s that sharp, that confident, that poised. He’s the real deal hero type. His new movie, Bone Tomahawk, is a collision of genres: one part cowpokin’ Western, another part ultra-violent horror. Come December 25th, he’ll also star in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. (ESQ)
‘Room’ Scribe Emma Donoghue On Writing a Cinematic Novel and a Literary Movie
A uniquely claustrophobic, fixed-POV nail-biter, Room is Donoghue’s seventh novel, but it was the first she was determined to make into a film. Fortunately for both filmgoers and fans of the book, she was also determined to make it on her own terms. (FCC)
Screenwriters: ‘Awakenings’
The 124-page screenplay by Steven Zaillian, based on the book by Oliver Sachs. Script is dated October 2nd, 1989, but has multiple revisions through December 15th, 1989. (DS)