Matthew Vaughn may have stepped out of the director’s chair of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, but he’s sticking with Fox’s Marvel superhero movies, by signing up to produce the planned reboot of Fantastic Four, which Josh Trank is due to direct.
Mark Millar, who’s overseeing all of Fox’s Marvel-based movies, tweeted the news, saying “Just off the phone with Fox and some excellent news – Matthew Vaughn is producing Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot!”
The film is a fairly long way from the screen though, with Fox not planning to get it into cinemas until spring 2015. They do have big plans though, with Millar saying a couple of months ago that the project will reinvent the superhero genre, with an approach we have never seen before – although he didn’t say quite what that meant.
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For a while Adam Sandler has been putting together a western comedy called Ridiculous 6, but it appears that film is now being put on hold while they work on it some more, and instead Sandler is pushing forward with a currently untitled romantic comedy being developed by Warner Bros.
When Megan Fox was dumped from Transformers 3 amid some anger over comments she’d made about Michael Bay’s directing style that the helmer took badly, it didn’t look like they’d ever have anything to do with one another again. However they must have made up, as 
With Anchorman 2 gearing up to shoot, Adam McKay is filling in the new roles. Kristen Wiig recently signed on the star, and now 
Leo DiCaprio attaching himself to a movie is a long way from him actually making it, as he likes to have a lot more films on his development slate than he’d ever have time to make. However he’s now added a new one, with 
Shane Acker made a strong debut with the excellent animated movie, 9, but sadly it didn’t really make much of an impact at the box office, and so we haven’t had anything from the director since. However now he’s heading back into the animation studio with an adaptation of the comic book, Beasts Of Burden.