Movie News

Director DJ Caruso, along with writer Carl Ellsworth, is working on the Y: The Last Man movie. After early drafts tried to fit in the whole series, the movie will now only cover the first fourteen (of sixty) issues, with a possible trilogy. Shia LaBoeuf still stands as the most likely actor for Yorick.

After the Cloverfield sequel, Matt Reeves would be working on The Invisible Woman. According to Variety, "a Hitchcock-style thriller that probes the mind of a former beauty queen who turns to a life of crime to protect her family."

After much talk, the film version of ‘80s superhero TV show Greatest American Hero should start filming in July in Arizona. Director Stephen Herek is looking for actors for characters, Ralph Hinkley and Bill Maxwell. The casting info being sent around for Hinkley goes: “29-39, an all-around good guy, with boyish handsome good looks, smart, decent, honorable and resilient, Ralph is a high school history teacher in Tempe, Arizona, a bachelor who hasn't yet found the right girl. Selected by a bunch of aliens as the perfect hero to champion the rights of humankind against an evil nemesis, Ralph gets a superhero suit and a rather gruff squire in the form of FBI agent Bill Maxwell - neither of which yield easily to his control. Stuck inside the suit while awaiting for a duel-to-the-death challenge from his sinister opponent, Harve Lundy, Ralph proves to be honest, upright, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent as he prepares himself to do or die, without losing his Eagle Scout-ish honor or his suit in the process. Oh, and he gets a girlfriend along the way.”

Joss Whedon and Summer Glau will be working together again with Whedon’s new dance movie.

John Harrison will direct the adaptation of the first story in the first book of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood. John Harrison and Darin Silverman are script writing, and Sophie Ward and Jonas Armstrong are starring.

Rob Zombie will be focusing on his comic turned adult oriented animated movie, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. Paul Giamatti plays Dr. Satan.

EuropaCorp has signed with Casterman for the rights for a three picture deal for Jacques Tardi’s comicbook series Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec. The first one should be out 2009.

Rogue Pictures has already acquired the film rights to Scott Sigler’s not yet released (April 1) horror scifi novel Infected and its sequel.

The Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Robert Kaplow’s Me and Orson Wells has rounded out its cast: Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Claire Danes, Eddie Marsan, Leo Bill, and Imogen Poots.

Robert Redford will be producing a movie based on Bill Bryson’s travelogue A Walk in the Woods and Barry Levinson will direct.

Jesse L. Martin will be playing Marvin Gaye in Lauren Goodman’s movie that’s loosly based on Trouble Man, by Steven Turner. James Gandolfini will play promoter Freddy Cousaert.

Okay, the G.I. Joe casting rundown:
Sienna Miller (The Baroness), Ray Park (Snake Eyes), Rachel Nichols (Scarlett), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Heavy Duty), Said Taghmaoui (Breaker), Marlon Wayans (Ripcord), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Rex), Byung-hun Lee (Storm Shadow), Arnold Vosloo (Zartan), Channing Tatum (Duke), and Dennis Quaid (Hawk)

Martial arts film Bunraku has cast Josh Hartnett as an alternative universe unnamed drifter looking for vengeance. The movie shoots in Europe this spring, with Guy Moshe directing and writing.

Julianna Moore has signed onto Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein’s supernatural thriller Shelter. Other than that it’s based on a script by Michael Cooney, the plot is “hush hush.”

Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler will star in The Ugly Truth, a romantic comedy about a producer and chauvinistic TV host. Robert Luketic directs and Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith are the writers.

Mira Nair has replaced Phil Noyce as director for Amelia, the Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart movie.

Julia Robert will play a woman who decides to go on an adventure after her divorce in the movie version of Margot Berwin’s Hothouse Flowers. But there’s still no script because of the strike.