Adaptations

Summit Entertainment’s adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight will be moved from December 12, to November 21.

Universal is planning to release Chris Nahon’s Blood: The Last Vampire on 2,000 screens in March. Pathe has a June release listed for France.

Director Matthew Vaughn is moving forward on Kick-Ass. Chloe Moretz has been cast, with Christopher Mintz-Plasse in negotiations for the indie adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s ultraviolent teen superhero comic. The movie’s script was written by Vaughn with Jane Goldman, and they are looking at a possible fall start date.

Universal has the rights to Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, with Red Eagle Entertainment also producing. The adaptations will begin with The Eye of the World. The final book in the series is set for fall 2009 written by Brandon Sanderson using Jordan’s notes.

More on David Goyer’s Invisible Man: “My take is kind of an extrapolation. It actually deals with a nephew of the first character. It’s got some of the characters from the H.G. Wells book, but it’s kind of a continuation. It involves Scotland Yard getting their hands on the current Invisible Man and basically saying, ‘Wow, you’d be a really good secret agent to send into Imperial Russia right now. It starts off from there.”

George Clooney has bought the rights to Jonathan Mahler’s The Challenge. The legal thriller will be developed through Smoke House, leaving it open for Clooney to potentially direct, write, or star in, but nothing official yet. It’s about the legal battle between Charles Swift and Neal Katyal over the trial of Salim Hamdam, the bodyguard and driver of Osama bin Laden.

Zak Penn is writing, and will produce, Fox’s The Argonauts. It’s Penn’s take on the Greek myth about Jason and the sailors of the Argo, and their search for the Golden Fleece.