Thursday, February 26, 2009

Future Film Round-up

- Ang Lee is the latest director signed to direct Life of Pi, based on the award-winning Canadian novel. Others attached in the past have include M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuaron, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
- Dan Aykroyd mentioned at a House of Blues event that Ghostbusters 3 should start filming late this Fall.
- The new Woody Allen film I mentioned earlier has added Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto to its cast.
- Gore Verbinski will be directing a new version of Clue, based on the board game.
- The fourth film from Adam McKay and Will Ferrell (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and Step Brothers) is called B Team, and co-stars Mark Wahlberg.
- Matt Damon will star in The Adjustment Bureau, based on the short story by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkley).
- Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Rotchie and starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, will now open this Christmas Day
- There is going to be a live action/CGI combo version (think Alvin & the Chipmunks) of Yogi Bear.
- The Green Hornet, written by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogan now has Michel Gondry as its director.
- Sean Penn is in talks to play Joe Wilson in Fair Game, the story of Valerie Plame who was outed as a CIA operative by the media/the Bush Administration (depending on how you want to look at it). Naomi Watts is already signed as Valerie Plame, and Doug Lima is directing.

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