The 1973 classic Papillon is getting a remake, with Charlie Hunnam attaching himself a while back to the role originally played by Steve McQueen. Now we know who should be replacing Dustin Hoffman, as THR reports that Rami Malek has signed on for the movie.
The original is about ‘Henri “Papillon” Charriere (McQueen), who is unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France and condemned to life in a notorious island prison. En route, Papillon meets a quirky convicted counterfeiter named Louis Dega (Hoffman). In exchange for protection, Dega agrees to finance Papillon’s prison escape, ultimately resulting in a lasting friendship.’
Michael Noer is set to direct the movie from a script Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners). It’s not clear when it might start shooting.
Internet trolls may have viciously laid into the idea of gender-swapping Ghostbusters, but Hollywood seems to like the idea, with a 
Sarah Waters’ lesbian-themed novel Fingersmith got a lot of praise when it was first released, and was turned into a British mini-series in 2005. Now though it’s getting a bit of a cultural makeover from Park Chan-wook, the celebrated director of Oldboy, Lady Vegeance and Stoke.
Synopsis: ‘A reimagining of Disney’s cherished family film, “Pete’s Dragon” is the adventure of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon. “Pete’s Dragon” stars Bryce Dallas Howard (“Jurassic World”), Oakes Fegley (“This is Where I Leave You”), Wes Bentley (“The Hunger Games”), Karl Urban (“Star Trek”), Oona Laurence (“Southpaw”) and Oscar® winner Robert Redford (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”). The film, which is directed by David Lowery (“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”), is written by Lowery & Toby Halbrooks based on a story by Seton I. Miller and S.S. Field and produced by Jim Whitaker, p.g.a. (“The Finest Hours,” “Friday Night Lights”), with Barrie M. Osborne (“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Great Gatsby”) serving as executive producer.
Fans of Channing Tatum with his shirt off should rejoice, as 
Chris Evans hasn’t been having a huge amount of luck outside the Marvel Universe, because as much as audiences love him as Captain America, they haven’t shown much interest in most of the other movies he’s made in the past few years. Admittedly that’s because some of them were rubbish, while others deserved a bigger audience (e.g. Snowpiercer) but didn’t get a big release.
Disney has invested a lot of money in turning its classic animated movies into live-action movies, and for a while it’s working on a few other classic tales, including a film based around The Nutcracker And The Mouse King. The movie already has Misty Copeland & Mackenzie Foy attached to star, and now 
There are very few movies that wouldn’t be made better by the presence of Meryl Streep, and we can’t imagine Disney’s planned sequel to Mary Poppins will be any difference. Emily Blunt if already signed up for the central role with Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda in the equivalent of the Dick Van Dyke role, and now