Future Film Round-up

- Rod Lurie (The Contender) will be doing a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. James Marsden will star, and the story will be relocated from rural England to the Deep South.
- Spider-man 4, due out in May of 2011, may be in 3-D.
- Kevin MacDonald (State of Play) will be adapting Isaac Asimov’s time travel novel The End of Eternity.
- Clark Gregg has joined the cast of Iron Man 2.
- David Slade, who directed the great unseen thriller Hard Candy (starring a pre-Juno Ellen Page) will direct the third Twilight film. And I still won’t see it.
- Universal will be remaking David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
- Michael Caine has joined the cast of Chris Nolan’s next film, Inception. He joins Leonardo DiCaprio, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Marion Cotillard.
- Robert Rodriguez is rebooting the Predator franchise. His Predators hits theatres next July.
- Denzel Washinton will star in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable. It will be the fifth film for Scott and Washington.
- Again unnecessary: Russell Brand is in talks to star in a remake of Drop Dead Fred.
- Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas are teaming up again for a sequel to Wall Street. Charlie Sheen played Douglas’ protégé in the first film … this time it will Shia TheBeef.
- Robert Zemeckis is considering making a Roger Rabbit sequel using motion capture technology.
- Miramax has bought the rights to remake the French thriller Tell No One.