Adaptations

Warner Brothers have hired Brad Ingelsby write the Sam Raimi produced adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' comic Sleeper.

If he can get a studio behind it, Seth Green will direct the movie adaptation of his and Hugh Sterbakov’s comic The Freshman, "It is kids - it's Revenge of the Nerds meets X-Men. It's kids in their first year of college, their first days of college, leaving the nest for the first time, awkwardly discovering their own identifies, trying to cast off all the things that have been placed on them throughout their scholastic career, and define their own identity in college. And these kids are - you know, because of the overflow of the enrollment, they're put into the science building, where they don't even have permanent housing. And, you know, now this is a makeshift group they're supposed to be best friends with, and they find themselves at a fraternity party where they are the butt of every joke and humiliated beyond their imagination. And then they go back to the dorm and kind of mull over the notion of being trapped in this place for the next four years. And then they are the victims of a scientific event, which gives them borderline useless superpowers. So now in addition to being these outcasts of the outcasts, they are additionally alienated, with a physical deformity."

Tai Seng Entertainment will release Cheang Pousoi’s adaptation of Izô Hashimoto and Akio Tanaka’s manga Shamo. “Shamo is the story of a promising young student who suffers a mental breakdown, murders his parents, and while in prison, trains to become a professional martial artists.” It stars Shawn Yue, Francis Ng, Bruce Leung, Ryo Ishibashi, and Masato Kobayashi.

Post apocalyptic thriller The Road has been pushed forward, from a November 14 limited release and November 26 wide release, to at least December, possibly next year.

Fox 2000 has the rights to Joe Haldeman’s novel The Forever War. Ridley Scott will direct, with Scott Free producing, and Vince Gerardis and Ralph Vicinanza exec-producing. “The book centers on a soldier who battles an enemy in deep space for only a few months, only to return home to a planet he doesn't recognize some 20 years later.”

Tim Burton on Alice in Wonderland: "It's a funny project. The story is obviously a classic with iconic images and ideas and thoughts. But with all the movie versions, well, I've just never seen one that really had any impact to me. It's always just a series of weird events. Every character is strange and she's just kind of wandering through all of the encounters as just a sort of observer. The goal is to try to make it an engaging movie where you get some of the psychology and kind of bring a freshness but also keep the classic nature of 'Alice.' And, you know, getting to do it in 3-D fits the material quite well. So I'm excited about making it a new version but also have the elements that people expect when they think of the material."

Marvin Media LLC will produce “an original environmentally aware scifi” based on a story by Paul Kanter. Keiichi Satou will direct and Manabu Ishikawa will write. They’ll try for a 2010 release date.

Brad Pitt will star in George Miller’s futuristic outer space take on Homer’s The Odyssey Warner Brothers.

From BlizzCon about the World of Warcraft movie: “There are still plans for a World of Warcraft movie. The script is being written but if they say anything more than that they will be shot.”

Milla Jovovich will play Alyssa Barron in Clock Tower. Senator Entertainment and the Weinstein Co.’s adaptation on the survival horror video game series is set to start filming November, in Los Angeles. Eric Pippen wrote the screenplay, that will take its cue from the second game, with the heroine trying to escape a psychiatric hospital and a family curse.