The Wolverine may not shoot until next spring (probably), but the director of that movie, James Mangold, is already eyeing future projects, as Deadline reports he’s signed on to direct a remake of Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s Icelandic thriller, City State.
The original centres on four strangers whose lives are affected when the foreign mafia moves in on the Icelandic drug trade. The quartet includes a crooked police captain who is in love with a prostitute, an elderly mafia boss who wants to get out of the crime syndicate alive, a mechanic seeking vengeance for the death of his unborn child, and a female police officer who is attacked by street thugs and then takes the law into her own hands.
James Mangold will likely spend some of the time while he’s waiting for The Wolverine to gear up (once Hugh Jackman has finished on Les Miserables), writing the Ctiy State script. It’s not known though when the movie might shoot.
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After every Transformers movie, Michael Bay says, ‘Never again’, and then a few months later he’s back in talks to return to the franchise. That’s happened again, as despite Bay saying Dark of The Moon was most definitely his last Transformers movie, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner has revealed that the toy company is in “active discussions” with Paramount Pictures for Transfomers 4, and that executive producer Steven Spielberg and director Michael Bay are involved in the talks.
Drummers often get overlooked in the history of music, but Dennis Wilson, drummer for the Beach Boys and brother of bandmates Carl and Brian, is getting his own biopic, simply titled The Drummer.
Prequels to classic tales seem to be popular at the moment, from Frankenstein to Wizard Of Oz, and now Pinocchio is getting in on the action. Deadline reports 20th Century Fox has acquired Michael Vukadinovich’s spec screenplay, The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto, with Real Steel and Night At The Museum helmer Shawn Levy set to direct.
There’s been a lot of interest in directing The Twilight Zone. We reported a few days ago that Warner Bros wanted Chris Nolan, but if he passed on it, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron and Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt were also being considered (Harry Potter’s David Yates was also in the running but had decline).
He’s currently shooting One Shot with Tom Cruise, but writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Way Of The Gun) already has his eye on the future, as Deadline reports he has a follow-up planned with Rubicon. It’s designed as a full-on multi-platform project, which will be turned into a movie, a graphic novel, and a video game.
Just in case you were wondering whether the idea of them making a sequel to Top Gun was a crazy dream you had about a year ago comes news, via Variety, that Paramount has hired screenwriters Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz to write Top Gun 2. The duo have had a pretty good year, having worked on the scripts for both X-Men: First Class and Thor, and now they’ll get to take on the classic 80s flick.
This weekend it was a race between Footloose and Real Steel as to which would top the US box office. On Friday it looked like Footloose was pulling ahead, but with that movie slightly running out of steam as the weekend went on and Real Steel benefitting from family audiences on Saturday and Sunday, it was the robot boxing film that won out with $16.3 million.