Adaptations

Producer Donald DeLine has confirmed: That Jack Black is no longer attached to the Green Lantern movie, and that it is no longer being considered a comedic project. Right now they’re waiting for Greg Berlanti’s first draft of the script, which is looking like Hal Jordan’s origin story. The stalling of Justice League Mortal will not affect it.

Andrew Stanton says he’s working on a script for Pixar based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ series John Carter of Mars.

Millennium Films will make a movie based off of Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. It will be about how Athos, Porthos, and Aramis joined up. The fourth Musketeer, D'Artagnan, will either appear near the end or he’ll be in the sequel.

The Weinstein Company has the rights to Allison Winn Scotch’s upcoming novel Time of My Life. It’s about a 30 something housewife who has a chance to go back in time and see how her life would’ve been if she hadn’t married. The book comes out in October through Random House.

Universal has hired Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to adapt Robert Ludlum's novel The Sigma Protocol. Strike Entertainment partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, and Paul L. Sandberg will produce. In it, an investment banker is target for death when he tries to expose a secret organization that manipulates the world’s economy.

Katherine Heigl will produce and star in a movie based off of Carolyn Jessop’s (she testified against polygamist Warren Jeffs) memoir Escape.

Crunchyroll has announced that it will host the international premiere of T.O. Entertainment’s CG anime Egg Man in the fall. Based on the short story from Yumeaki Hirayama’s Monologues of Universal Transverse Mercato, it’s about “a death row murderer named ‘Egg Man,’ a female rookie inspector named Karen, and one last unsolved case.”

Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have the rights to Belgian comic strip turned '80s cartoon The Smurfs. David Stem and David Weiss are in negotiations to write the mixed live action and animation movie.

Marty Krofft says that H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters movies are the next things they're working on (Land of the Lost was also one of the Krofft brothers' shows).

Rita Hsiao is the latest writer to take a crack at an I Dream of Jeannie movie script (a decade old idea).

Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel will star in Mandate Pictures’ Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse. It’s based off Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s, who will also write the feature length, comedy short.

Adam Beach on the Turok movie: "We just finished the animated movie and now we're going into the feature film movie [which should lens] hopefully in a couple years. We're about to set up meetings to develop a script and put it out there. I'll have to beef up, and be a good guy, and save the world!"