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SSN ORIGINALS
Last week we revealed some of the sources behind where we find rising talent and creative projects. This week, we’re returning to form and releasing our latest list of the hidden gems from around the web. With millions of creative projects posted daily, the internet can be a vast city. Luckily, SSN is here to shine a light on it.
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Just about three dozen new projects this week, including something new from Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, Kevin James’ still untitled return to TV, and plenty of both scripted and unscripted fare. Click the link to get the fully skinny.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
After a trying WGA arbitration process, the credit scroll on the film will read: Screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly; Story by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver; Based on characters created by Michael Crichton. Universal initially supported sole credit for Trevorrow (the film’s director), and Connolly.
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Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed
Captain America: The Winter Soldier and are currently shooting
Captain America: Civil War, will helm
The Avengers: Infinity War, Parts 1 and 2. The two films are scheduled to come out the last weekend in April of 2018 and 2019. No word yet on who will be writing the two films.
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Pair will reprise their characters from 2010’s
Tron: Legacy in the sequel that is being directed by Joseph Kosinski.
Legacy was the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi film that drew a big cult following and became an influence on filmmakers and pop culture. Disney has been developing a sequel to Legacy since the movie grossed $400 million worldwide. The project is now looking to shoot this fall, likely in Vancouver. Plot details are being kept offline.
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Mark Rachesky is selling 10 million shares of his Lionsgate stock with a value of about $330 million. The sale, announced after the market closed, is being made through a secondary offering through his MHR Fund Management LLC, which hold 51.26 million Lionsgate shares and represents a 35% stake. Lionsgate will not sell any shares in the offering and will not receive any proceeds from the offering.
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The two-time Oscar winner has been rumored to play the villain in the upcoming James Bond film, which hits theaters in November, but when information came out in the fall, his character’s name was listed as Franz Oberhauser. The rumor was that this was a front, and that he is actually playing the famous Bond villain, but now, in an interview, he has shot it down one more time, saying it is “absolutely untrue.”
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Sony Pictures Animation today announced that Reckart will develop and make his feature directorial debut
The Lamb. A fully CG-animated feature project, movie tells the story of a young lamb who will change the world. It's based on an original pitch by Tom Sheridan and will be produced by DeVon Franklin under his banner Franklin Entertainment. Reckart earned a nomination in 2013 for his stop-motion animated
Head Over Heels.
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Mike Marvin, who wrote the 1984 cult classic ski film, is on track for what’s now being primarily called a remake. A script is written, and financing of $12 miilion has reportedly been procured. Marvin, who went from the original to directing
Hamburger: The Motion Picture and
The Wraith (and the ski scenes in
Better Off Dead), may also take the helm here.
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The
Captain Phillips Oscar nominee has booked a lead role in the Detroit-set indie drama
The Wolf Who Cried Boy, opposite Torrey Wigfield in the other lead role. The story, described as "anti-coming-of-age," centers on a young man who gets swept into the seedy underbelly of the scrapping industry. Abdi will play a limo driver who acts as a fence for the stolen copper.
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