Eagle Eye and I Am Number Four helmer D.J. Caruso has signed up to direct 20th Century Fox’s supernatural thriller, Selling Time. Last October is was rumoured Will Smith was interested in starring, and according to according he still attached, but has never formally committed to the project.
Fox hopes that they can finally get the Smith to sign on with a new draft of the script that is being written by Dan McDermott. He was actually the script’s original writer back in 2001, but since then other writers such as Spike Lee, Derick Martini, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have fiddled and altered it. Now it’s going back to something closer to what it began as, although Caruso will oversee the new draft.
The writer and director previously worked together on the 2008 thriller Eagle Eye.
The script is about a man who is offered the chance to relive the worst day of his life, although he must give up seven years of his life expectancy in return. It’s not clear when it might shoot.
The BAFTA nominations are out, with Gravity getting the most nods with 11 nominations. 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle are each nominated in ten categories, while Captain Phillips has nine nominations. Behind the Candelabra and Saving Mr. Banks are each nominated five times.
The Cobbler came together really quickly, largely because the time between Adam Sandler deciding to make it and when he’d be need on the set of Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children was very short. So only a few weeks after it was officially announced in September, a (surprisingly good) cast was rounded up and the movie went into production.
After finishing Lincoln, Steven Spielberg announced he was going to make Robopocalypse, but despite the fact he owns his own studio and had the main cast in place, budget issues meant he decided to indefinitely delay the movie. Then he was going to shoot, American Sniper but he stepped away from the a few months ago.