- West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin will write and George Clooney will direct and star in The Challenge, about the trial of Osama Bin Ladin’s driver. If it’s successful, expect a sequel about Bin Ladin’s manicurist.
- John carpenter is coming back to theatres with The Ward, about a young woman trapped in a mental institution with a malevolent ghost.
- Universal Pictures is remaking Slap Shot. Expect the climax to be an outdoor game, ‘cause that’s the only hockey that Americans will actually watch.
- Spike Lee has purchased the rights to To Hell and Back, about a WWII soldier who goes AWOL and hides in the Burmese jungle, eventually joining an indigenous tribe.
- The Weinstein Company has purchased the rights a biography on the life of Judy Garland.
- Michael Radford, who a few years directed Al Pacino in a film version of The Merchant of Venice, is now making King Lear, starring … Al Pacino.
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