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SSN ORIGINALS
SSN Senior Editor Neil Turitz takes a look at what happened last week, and how it actually has a different effect on Hollywood than you might have originally thought. It turns out, the mass exodus from CAA is analogous to a larger problem that plagues the industry. Click on the link and prepare to be educated and edified.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Ang Lee is directing the adaptation of Ben Fountain’s bestselling novel, with a screenplay by Simon Beauty. Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker are the latest to join the film, along with newcomer Joe Alwyn, playing the title role, as well as Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund and Steve Martin. Filming starts next month.
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Indie distributor has given awards season release dates to Robert Redford comedy
A Walk In the Woods and Andrew Garfield’s thriller
99 Homes. The former, which also stars Nick Nolte,Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman and Kristen Schaal, was directed by Ken Kwapis and bows September 2nd. The latter, helmed by Ramin Bahrani and also starring Michael Shannon and Laura Dern, hits theaters September 25th.
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With the impending release of a fourth book in the series,
The Girl In the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz, Sony is investigating a new trilogy, in which the second and third books in the series,
The Girl Who Played With Fire and
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, would be combined into a single movie, with the new book being the third film chapter. No word on whether or not Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig might return, but David Fincher probably won’t.
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Paris-based financier and producer has unveiled its first ever English language TV series with the British filmmaker,
Britannia. The eight-part series, which Backup will be shopping at Mip next week, charts the Roman invasion of what would become Great Britain in 43 A.D. and the rise of iconic female warrior Boudicca.
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Actor-director’s production company and performance-capture specialists has inked a deal with the production and distribution arm of Germany's pan-European media group ProSiebenSat.1. Joint venture will see the creation of a new unit to develop high-end scripted TV drama. Red Arrow will internationally distribute all projects from the new initiative.
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The director of the final three movies in the
Hunger Games saga will next take on one of the original epics. Peter Craig will write and Nina Jacobsen will produce, the same trio behind
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 and
Mockingjay, Part 2. The plan is for a 2016 shoot.
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Scripted by Justin Haythe,
A Cure For Wellness tells the story of an employee (DeHaan) who is sent to rescue his boss from a European “wellness spa.” He soon realizes he’s trapped and discovers that the facility has a far more sinister purpose than it lets on. Goth will play a longtime patient oblivious to the spa’s plans for her. Production on the pic will begin in Europe in June.
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As fans of the show can attest, the previous season ended with a long and involved conversation about something that cannot be properly explained in this space. Suffice to say it was perhaps the greatest example of its particular kind of joke in TV history, and all the participants discuss it here.
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The act is that the arc of the script-writing experience absolutely parallels that of a romantic relationship. No, really. Mark Miller explains.
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