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S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Series Gets A Pilot, With Joss Whedon Writing It

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Last month it was revealed that US TV network ABC is looking to tap into the superhero realm, with a potential TV series set in Marvel’s superhero universe. Now Variety has revealed that the network has ordered a pilot for S.H.I.E.L.D., a series that will centre on the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate, which brought all the superheroes together for The Avengers.

Avengers director Joss Whedon has signed on to write the pilot script with his brother Jed Whedon, and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse). Joss Whedon is also expected to direct the pilot episode, if his schedule permits. It is possible for the various actors and heroes currently seen in the movie to make guest appearances, although we can’t imagine Samuel L. Jackson will be a series regular, but he may pop up now and then.

It is said that production will begin immediately, so more info should emerge in the near future.

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Fresh The Master Trailer – New look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s film

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After waiting what seems like eons for a new Paul Thomas Anderson movie (There Will Be Blood was back in 2007), The Master is nearly here, with a November 9th UK release date now set. Now a new trailer has been released. Set in America in the years following World War II, a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organisation and taps a young drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

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Jon Turteltaub Gets Beached With An Olympic Swimming Fantasy

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Jon Turteltaub has signed on to develop the languishing Fox 2000 project Beached as a directing vehicle, which will capitalise on the popularity of Olympic swimming, and add in a few whales for good measure.

The plot centres on a four-year-old boy who falls overboard during a family trip. The overweight lad is then raised by whales before going on to become an Olympic swimmer (realism is not going to be one of this movie’s strong points, I feel).

This project has been kicking around since 1997, with an original screenplay by Ted Griffin (Ocean’s Eleven). Jordan Roberts (Around the Bend) wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay. Jon Turteltaub will supervise a new rewrite, although it isn’t known if another writer has signed on yet.

The director won’t get around to Beached for a while yet, as he’s currently in pre-production on the comedy Last Vegas, starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline, which is due to start shooting soon. (Source: THR)

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Michael Fassbender May Join Jane Got A Gun

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Michael Fassbender is certainly a busy man, but it appears he may have time to slot another movie in, as Vulture reports that he’s in talks to join Lynne Ramsay’s Jane Got a Gun, starring opposite the already attached Natalie Portman.

The movie a woman whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She is forced to reach out to an ex-lover and ask if he will help defend her farm when her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job. Portman will play the main woman, while Fassbender would be the ex-lover.

Ramsay is hoping to shoot the movie by early next year, although it doesn’t appear a firm date has been set yet, with timings presumably having to fit around Portman and Fassbender’s other commitments.

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Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci Producing Dragonology

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Thanks to the likes of Star Trek and Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have becomes one of the most in-demand producing/writing teams in Hollywood. Now they have boarded the languishing fantasy adaptation Dragonology for Universal Pictures. The studio acquired the rights to Dugald A. Steer’s childrens book series back in June 2008, but it hasn’t moved forward that far since.

Leonard Hartman was originally set to write the adapted screenplay, but now he will only serve as executive producer, with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman spearheading the effort to find a new writer. The faux non-fiction books are based on the notion that dragons actually exist, which was revealed by Victorian era dragonologist Ernest Drake. The story centres on a team of dragonologists who try to stop a nefarious plot where the remaining dragons will be used to kill every human on the planet.

The book series was first published in 2003, and its 12 titles have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. The project is just the latest that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are shepherding through their first-look deal with Universal. They are also overseeing the remakes for Van Helsing and The Mummy. (Source: THR)

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Cobie Smulders Joins Vince Vaughn In Starbuck

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Cobie Smulders certainly got a few new fans earlier this year thanks to The Avengers, and now the How I Met Your Mother actress is heading for a new film role as she’s in negotiations to play the female lead in Starbuck.

Vince Vaughn is set to star in this remake of a French-Canadian comedy about a middle-aged man who learns that he has fathered 533 children through sperm donations. When hundreds of these kids request to meet their father, the man must decide whether or not he will reveal his identity. Cobie Smulders will play his pregnant girlfriend. Parks and Recreation star Chris Pratt is also attached to be the man’s attorney.

Ken Stott, who made the original Starbuck, will direct from his own screenplay. Filming will begin later this year. (Source: Variety)

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Josh Holloway Signs Up To Join Arnie In Breacher

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The cast for Breacher has certainly got a lot better in the last few weeks. For months we just new Arnie was going to be in it, but more recently he’s been joined by the likes of Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Dawn Olivieri, Joe Manganiello, and Malin Akerman. Now Variety reports that Josh Holloway is in negotiations to star too, for director David Ayer.

The movie is about a team of corrupt DEA agents who steal millions from a drug cartel, under the guise of a routine raid. While the team thinks they have gotten away with the perfect crime, they start getting knocked off, one by one. Josh Holloway will play Neck, the medic of this shady unit.

Skip Woods wrote the screenplay, with shooting scheduled to begin this October in Atlanta.

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XOXO Gets Adjustment Bureau Director George Nolfi

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George Nolfi turned out to be a pretty proficient director with The Adjustment Bureau, and now he’s lining up a new project, as Variety reports he has signed on to direct XOXO, Lionsgate’s social networking cyber thriller.

News of the project first emerged last October, when the studio acquired the spec screenplay from Mark Heyman (Black Swan), which Darren Aronofsky has been overseeing. The story is about a man engaged to be married, who also enjoys a little online flirting on the side. He strikes up a virtual romance with a woman he meets on Facebook, although he begins to realise that this cyber romance is affecting his real life, in dangerous ways. The project is being described as “Fatal Attraction for the digital age.”

Aronofsky will produce, although it isn’t known when production will begin.

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Morgan Freeman & Elizabeth Banks Join LEGO: The Piece of Resistance

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Although the idea of a LEGO movie has always seemed a bit odd, but the CG flick is moving forward with the news that Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks have joined the voice cast of LEGO: The Piece of Resistance for 21 Jump Street and Cloudy With A Chance… directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

The film will be about Emmet (Chris Pratt), a LEGO figure who is mistaken for the one known as The Master Builder. He is chosen to help stop an evil force from gluing their entire land together. Morgan Freeman will play a character named Vitruvius, who also joins this team that includes LEGO versions of Batman (Will Arnett) and Superman (Channing Tatum). No details have been given for Elizabeth Banks’ character.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller will direct from a script they co-wrote with Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman. (Source: Deadline)

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Leo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Tom Hardy To Fight Poaching

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Leo DiCaprio has always been a guys who’s wanted to fight for causes, normally of an environmental bent. Now he’s taking that to the screen, and according to THR, he’s teaming up with Tom Hardy and Tobey Maguire to do so. At the moment they’re just confirmed to produce but may well star too.

It’s Tom Hardy who’s at the front with this one, as he came up with the original idea, based on friends of his who are former military turned anti-poaching fighters in South Africa. The story has been compared in scope to Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, which delved into several different aspects of the war on drugs. This story will cover everything from the poachers in the African jungles to the fashion houses in Paris. The producers are currently searching for a screenwriter to tackle this project.

Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio both starred in Inception for the studio in 2010, while longtime friends Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio star in The Great Gatsby for Warner Bros., arriving in theaters next year, so its a bit of a pals reunion.

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