‘People V OJ Simpson’s’ Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski To Script Amazon Pic On Mount Rushmore Sculptor
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski made a deal with Amazon Studios to script a feature on the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, whose work includes the presidential heads on Mount Rushmore. Amazon acquired Great Men, a feature the duo pitched which they’ll script based on the John Taliaferro book Great White Fathers. (DH)
Aaron Stockard Set To Write Ben Affleck’s ‘Bunker Hill’ Movie
Warner Bros. has signed Aaron Stockard to adapt Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, set up three years ago as a possible directing vehicle for Ben Affleck. (VAR)
Verizon to Acquire Stake In AwesomenessTV
Verizon has agreed to purchase a 24.5 percent stake in AwesomenessTV, the teen- and tween-skewing online video producer owned by DreamWorks Animation and Hearst. Verizon will also create a short-form mobile video service featuring online talent. (THR)
New Line Acquires NBA Draft Imposter Video For SpringHill’s LeBron James & Maverick Carter And Madica
New Line Cinema and LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment have acquired rights to an Elite Daily video by senior humor writer Connor Toole that went viral last year. (DH)
Ryan Eggold To Co-Star In ‘Blacklist’ Spin-Off
Ryan Eggold, who currently stars as the mysterious Tom Keen in The Blacklist, will officially reprise his role in the NBC spin-off show should it move forward. (TVG)
Cillian Murphy Reteams With Christopher Nolan For ‘Dunkirk’
Murphy is joining newcomer Fionn Whitehead in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. The film is inspired by Operation Dynamo, the miraculous evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the French seaport of Dunkirk, which took place from May-June of 1940. (IW)
Jesse Plemons Joins Christian Bale In Scott Cooper’s ‘Hostiles’
Watch The Evolution Of ‘Zootopia’ In 45-Minute Making-of Documentary
What was the process of making Zootopia like? How did it change along the way, and how different was the initial story idea from the final product? Those answers and more are provided in a fantastic 45-minute making-of documentary called Imagining Zootopia. (COLL)
Screenwriters: ‘Field of Dreams’