Adaptions

John Favreau says the current lineup for The Avengers that Marvel is shooting for (by summer 2011 no less) is “Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Iron Man.” Kevin Feige confirmed, saying he’s working toward when "heroes can cross into each other's adventures and occasionally team up if there's a foe too great for any one of them to handle." Feiger and Zak Penn are already working on it.

The new title for G.I. Joe? G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.

Zack Snyder on editing Watchmen down from 3 hours: "The balancing act for me is, you want the movie as tight as possible for, I don't know why, I guess so people can enjoy it. But for me, the hardest part is just, when is it not Watchmen anymore? I don't think that's a danger, but it's a thing that I am trying to be the gatekeeper of while other forces conspire to say, 'No. Length, length, length. Playability.' Whatever the hell that means. I've lost perspective on [what scenes should be cut] now, because to me, the honest truth is I geek out on little stuff now as much as anybody. Like, people will go, 'We've got to cut. You don't need that shot of Hollis Mason's garage sign.' And I'm like, 'What are you talking about? Of course you do. Are you crazy? How will people enjoy the movie without s--t like that in it?' So it's hard for me. I think it's probably good, because I think we're going to end up with that stuff in the movie."

Hisae Iwaoka's science fiction manga Dosei Mansion (Saturn Apartments) will be made into a live action film. “Set in a future era when all of Earth is declared a giant nature reserve, and humans are prohibited from stepping foot on ground. So, humanity has migrated into a massive aerial ring system — a series of mid-air structures circling about 35,000 meters above the ground. Human society is now literally stratified, with the upper echelons of society living on the highest level of the system while the lowest classes live down below. A boy named Mitsu has only known life on the lowest level of this ring system. He loses his father just as he graduates from middle school, and thus inherits his father's job: washing the windows of the ring system.”

Writer/director Andrew Stanton says that the decision of whether John Carter of Mars will be live action won’t be answered “for about a year.” He also confirmed that he’s writing it.

Rogue Pictures has bought Ehren Kruger’s adaptation of Jennifer Egan’s supernatural novel The Keep. The book, a follow up to Look at Me, is a thriller about prisoner who seduces a woman with a story about a supernatural secret that can change her life.

DreamWorks has the rights to Scolastic’s The 39 Clues. Launching September 9, The 39 Clues will be a ten book series, with collectible cards and an online game/contest with a grand prize of $10,000, that will run over two years. Through 39 clues readers will have to solve the mystery behind the powers of the Cahills, the most powerful family in the world that includes Napolean and Houdini among its members. Steven Spielberg is circling it to direct.