Adaptations

Platinum Studios, Top Cow Productions, and Arclight Films are working on a live action Witchblade movie, based on the comics about a gauntlet that gives powers to a woman specially chosen in each generation. Right now, they’re looking at Australia for shooting.

Joel Silver says that the Sgt. Rock comic based movie will be made “very soon” with Guy Ritchie as a favorite to direct.

A live action movie based on Jiro Taniguchi’s two volume manga Harukana Machi e (Distant Neighborhood) will be made by Belgian company Entre Chien et Loup. Sam Garbarski will direct the film, changing the setting from Kurayoshi to 1968 Paris, about a 48 year old “salaryman” who gets transported back to his youth when he visits his hometown. It’s scheduled to be completed sometime next year.

Columbia Pictures has the rights to Scholastic’s Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine, and both companys are looking at it as a potential franchise. Co-producer Neal Moritz says they’ll try to follow Harry Potter’s example in getting unknown child actors and big names in supporting roles. (I was always more of a Fear Street girl m’self. Shadyside must have had the worst property values ever!)

George Clooney will star in Grant Heslov's Men Who Stare at Goats, using Brit Peter Straughan's script based on Jon Ronson's book. It's about the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion, a unit that was to use paranormal powers. The title comes from the idea that you can kill a goat by staring at it, but I can't be the only one who thought of Aberforth Dumbledore when they first read the title right?

Jason and Ivan Reitman will make a movie version of Walter Kirn’s novel Up in the Air. A ruthless human resources executive’s life apart because he’s a workaholic.

The Jim Henson Co. will produce, with The Weinstein Co. distributing, a Corey Edwards directed movie adaptation of show Fraggle Rock. Tony Leech will write the script for the live action musical that will take core characters Gogo, Wembley, Mokey Boober, and Red (woot!) outside of Fraggle Rock and show their interactions with humans, who think they’re aliens.

Sony says that Jonah Hill writing the script for a 21 Jump Street movie, and is in negotiations to develop it.