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Screenwriter Clay Tarver (Joy Ride) has been tapped by 20th Century Fox and Ben Stiller’s production company Red Hour to pen the sequel to Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. According to THR, Tarver is working on Quantum...
| Logan Otremba |
For those who do not know, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a cyberpunk video game that was released in 2011 by Square Enix. In November of last year, CBS Films announced that director and writer Scott Derrickson (Sinister) was h...
| Logan Otremba |
Jim Vejvoda of IGN had a chance to speak briefly with Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg at the Final Draft Big Break screenwriting awards. Both writers were brought on to consult/script some of the new Star Wars material on t...
| Hubert Vigilla |
So the writer of the films Shutter Island and Alexander, Laeta Kalogridis, and writer of Drive Angry, Patrick Lussier, have been hired to collaborate and write the script of Terminator 5. Now, these two have collaborated befo...
| Logan Otremba |
I had fortunately forgotten that Sony had made the decision the adapt Shadow of the Colossus, one of the most critically acclaimed and revered games of all time, into a movie. But lo and behold I've been reminded of this ...
| Thor Latham |
Okay, so there's good news and bad news. Bad news is that Legendary Pictures has ousted two of their producers for the upcoming Godzilla reboot (which is now set to start filming this March, with a May 2014 release date), Dan...
| Nick Valdez |
Now that Darkseid/Thanos/Thanoseid has been revealed as the villain of the upcoming Justice League film for some dumb reason (money), speculation has begun on what the story for the new film will be. According to Latino Revie...
| Nick Valdez |
Apparently Columbia Pictures is planning a remake of Jumanji, and to that end they've tapped the talents of screenwriter Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction). No other details have been given yet, so there's no time frame or dir...
| Thor Latham |
It looks like whatever work David DiGilio accomplished is now being handed off to a new scribe for another go around. Jesse Wigutow has been hired as the new writer for the sequel to Tron: Legacy and will conti...
| Thor Latham |
One of the more charming, quirky, creative and heartwarming films to land this past year was Safety Not Guaranteed. Being as I just used four adjectives that perfectly describe most Pixar films as well, it should come as wel...
| Matthew Razak |
Screenwriters Mark Purvis and Robert Wade have been responsible for both the dumbest Bond screenplay and one of the smartest, and after five films they've decided it's time to move on from the franchise. The duo wrote screenp...
| Matthew Razak |
The Deus Ex movie that was announced last month seems to actually be moving forward at a steady clip. CBS films just sent over word that Scott Derrickson has been hired to direct the film. He will also write the screenpl...
| Matthew Razak |
As far as all of the Star Wars news everyone has been reporting on, this little tidbit is a bit more substantial. According to Deadline, Michael Arndt was brought in sometime ago by Lucasfilm before all of this hubbub&nb...
| Thor Latham |
In what can be described as just barely news, Warner Bros. has just picked up a spec script from first time screenwriter Ashleigh Powell titled Somacell. The story "chronicles a female prison guard in the near ...
| Thor Latham |
Bet you didn't expect news about a Bond sequel so soon did ya? Hell, Skyfall hasn't even released in the states yet! Of course, that doesn't really mean anything when it comes to the Bond franchise, because it's not like we'r...
| Thor Latham |
Well, technically speaking the Mass Effect adaptation has another screenwriter, as it seems Legendary has scrapped whatever writer Mark Protosevich was working on and has decided to go with Morgan Davis Foehl, who w...
| Thor Latham |
While the adaptation of Uncharted is rolling full steam ahead under Sony's watchful eye, it's doing so a bit differently than previously reported. Neil Burger, who was slated to direct, was taken off the project this wee...
| Matthew Razak |
Videogames are serious business and serious business means that videogame movies need serious screenwriters. World of Warcraft is so serious that the original screenplay, written by Saving Private Ryan screenwriter Robert Rod...
| Matthew Razak |
Get ready for some great news. Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams are teaming up to bring us a new movie called Collider! You're not jumping up and down with joy yet, huh? All right, so like any big Abrams project the thing will be...
| Matthew Razak |
Things have been all over the place for Marc Forster-directed zombie pic World War Z, and now word has come that the new ending being crafted for the film is actually being done by Drew Goddard, director of Cabin in the Woods...
| Matthew Razak |