Adaptations

Studio War Involving ‘Watchmen’ Heats Up Judge Gary Allen Feess has set a January 6, 2009, trial date for Fox vs. Warner Brothers over Watchmen. The trial will set the stage for discovery and deposition proceedings during the rest of this year. Even so, Warner Brothers is sticking to a March 6, release.

Jeff Nathanson will write DreamWorks’ first adaptation of Scholastic multiplatform series The 39 Clues, which Steven Spielberg will direct.

Mark Strong (one of my Guys to Keep an Eye On) has been cast in an unknown part in the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie.

Stephen Sommers is in negotiations to direct, and co-write with Stuart Beattie, a Tarzan movie for Warner Brothers and producer Jerry Weintraub.