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SSN ORIGINALS
The usual batch of comings and goings this week, with just about all the major agencies getting involved, including ICM, Paradigm and Gersh. Click on the link to read all about it.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
The two-time Oscar winning director, whose
Bridge Of Spies hits theaters in the fall and who has just started shooting
The BFD with Mark Rylance, will follow that up with the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel,
Ready Player One. The story takes place in 2044 and revolves around a poverty-stricken gamer trying to solve a puzzle that, if he succeeds, would pretty much allow him to own the Internet. The tricks to deciphering the clues are rooted in 1980s pop culture.
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Talks are in their early stage, and there is no word yet on whom Elba might play. The third film in the rebooted franchise is currently being written by Doug Jung and one of the film’s stars, Simon Pegg, and will go before cameras in June for a summer, 2016 release. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana Karl Urban and John Cho all will also return.
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Among the highlights of a jam-packed lineup of projects is a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’
David Copperfield with
Veep‘s Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell co-writing, Ritesh Batra’s adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel
The Sense Of An Ending, and the James Marsh-Colin Firth collaboration about doomed sailor Donald Crowhurst.
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Studio has hired Jason Segel, the actor who helped Disney revive
The Muppets several years ago, and Drew Pearce, the writer behind
Iron Man 3, to pen and co-direct a new Lego movie, this one titled
The Billion Brick Race. Project joins the Charlie Bean-directed
Ninjago in 2016, followed by
The Lego Batman Movie in 2017 and
The Lego Movie 2 in 2018.
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Legendary TV and
The Amazing Spider-Man producer Matt Tolmach have secured the rights to the Image Comics series, created by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. Story follows the defender of a ruling family’s holdings in a dystopian near-future. Ruck will write the pilot.
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Indie distributor has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the director’s historical drama, starring Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman and Jonny Beauchamp. The drama centers around Danny Winters (Irvine), a fictional young man caught up in the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Roadside is planing a fall release.
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Cable network’s dramedy, which chronicles a group of gay pals in San Francisco, has had two low-rated seasons and had been rumored to be on the bubble for some time. The network announced that, instead of a third season, it will film a movie-length special to wrap up the series.
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Nick Antosca is the latest scribe to come in and work on the next installment of the timeless horror franchise. Antosca is a writer on NBC’s
Hannibal and picks up where writers Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg, who wrote the previous draft, left off. The film is schedule to shoot later this year, for a May, 2016 release.
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The first image of Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor has been released, and he is as bald and menacing as the character has ever been. The film also stars Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Holly Hunter, Scoot McNairy and Jeremy Irons, and opens exactly one year from today.
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