Greg Mottola made his name with comedies like Superbad and Paul, but he’s planning to go in a slightly different direction with a more literary new project, as he’s in early talks to adapt Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel The Marriage Plot for Sony, with Scott Rudin producing.
The film follows a coming-of-age love triangle in the early 1980s. At the centre is a bookish English major caught up between the affections of two men. As the romance of her favourite 19th century love stories begins to seep into her own life, the trio move from college to the real world.
It would be the second adaptation of a Eugenides novel, after Sofia Copolla’s The Firgin Suicides in 1999. (Source: Variety)
Every so often Hollywood decides it would be fun to get a lot of old geezers together for a film, and the latest movie doing that is Last Vegas. It already Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro onboard, and now 
Shame and The Grey star James Badge Dale has joined the cast of Iron Man 3, which starts shooting soon. Dale is set take on a villainous role, playing a character who is likely U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eric Savin, aka Coldblood, according to 
Chris Pine wants to add writer to his resume, as he’s co-written a script called Mantivities as part of a team including his friends Will Greenberg, Drew Howerton, Robert Baker, Ian Gotler and Tony Liebtrau. That’s a hell of a lot of writers for one script, but hopefully they all brought the funnies.
It took Alexander Payne seven years to get a follow-up to Sideways made, but he’s hoping that it’ll be a lot quicker to get his low budget movie Nebraska made. 
She may only be 15, but Isabelle Fuhrman already has some horror experience with Orphan. Most recently she’s been seen as Clove in The Hunger Games, but now she’ll be going back to the creepy as 
Amy Adams has proven her mettle in everything from drama to comedy, with Hollywood falling over itself to offer her roles as one of the most versatile young actresses around. Now