Adam Sandler is known for being a funny man, and while he’s dabbled of sort-of dramas, such as Punch Drunk Love, he’s mainly stuck with comedies. Now he’s in talks to make a fantasy drama for director Tom McCarthy, called The Cobbler, called THR.
Not much is known about the film, other than it’s set in the modern day and follows ‘a shoe man who has the ability to metaphysically step into the lives of the people whose shoes he repairs.’
McCarthy is best known for The Station Agent and The Visitor, and will start filming The Cobbler very soon, as Sandler wants to fit it in before moving on to Jason Reitman’s Men Women & Children (another less overtly comic venture for the actor).
Noah Baumbach made his name as a director with the indie likes of The Squid And The Whale, Margot At The Wedding, Greenberg and the recent Frances Ha. However now he’s planning something a little different, as 
For quite a long time, Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia were working on the screenplay for the long-gestating adaptation of Y: The Last Man. While that movie is still in limbo, they’ve now been hired to pen Michael Bay’s upcoming adaptation Ubisoft’s video game Ghost Recon, according to 
With Breaking Bad coming to an end, Bryan Cranston is looking for new projects. Now he’s landed his first major feature film starring role, as he’s to play blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in a biopic, simply called Trumbo, according to 
Fede Alvarez made a successful jump to feature-length movies this summer with Evil Dead, and while he’s already got a sequel to that film in the works, he’s now adding another film, as 
The Expendables 3 is already shooting in Belgrade, Sofia, Bulgaria. Until shortly before filming was going to get underway, Nicolas Cage was rumoured to be in talks about a role. However after it became clear he wasn’t going to be part of the movie, we never heard who would replace him.