Tom Hardy
Takashi Miike is beloved by fans of Asian movies, having offered us the likes of Audition, Ichi the Killer, and 13 Assassins. He’s also incredibly prolific, often making three or four movies a year. However none of those movies has been in English. That might change though, as Deadline reports he’s in talks to helm The Outsider, with Tom Hardy likely to star.
Based on an original script developed by John Linson and rewritten by Andrew Baldwin, the film is set in post-World War II Japan, with Hardy playing an American G.I. who becomes a member of the notorious Japanese Yakuza organised crime world.
Joel Silver, who is best known for producing classics like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and The Matrix, is on-board as well. As yet, Miike hasn’t signed on the dotted line, but many people will be keen to see an English-language film from the director.
We’re used to comic adaptations, but they usually involve superheroes. However there’s one comic that’s been running since the early 1940s which hasn’t ever been adapted for a live-action, big screen take – Archie Comics. The reason is that it’s not usually action-packed, instead following the lives of a group of young people in a small American town (although Archie has had a superhero reinvention in the past).
Denzel Washington must have a bit of a hero complex, where he’s obsessed with protecting people, as he seems to do it in every other movie he makes. Now he’s got a new one, as Denzel is in early talks to star in the Warner Bros. sci-fi adaptation Shovel Ready, based on a forthcoming novel by Adam Sternbergh.
We knew that John Cusack was out of the lead role in Hot Tub Time Machine 2, but there’d been no word on whether Chevy Chase would be back for more. Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and Clark Duke are all set to return, with Adam Scott signing on to replace Cusack in the lead, although he will play a completely new character.
Javier Bardem is going to be busy, as 
There’s been a lot of interest in Greek mythology in the last few years, but now Alex Proyas (Dark City, I Robot) is hoping people will enjoy a bit on Ancient Egyptian fun, as he’s bust planning the fantasy epic Gods Of Egypt.
Hollywood can be a very complex place, with multiple studios owning different bits of the rights to major franchises, which often holds up production on sequels and remake (just look at The Hobbit, which was delayed by a year because MGM help co-production rights but ran out of cash).