Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

Chris Nolan has officially signed on for The Dark Knight sequel. Rumor is it’s already in preproduction.

Warner Brothers is developing a sequel to Get Smart and has signed a three-year first-look deal with Steve Carell.

ComingSoon.net has some quotes from Guillermo del Toro about The Hobbit and Frankenstein: "There will be different sensibilities involved in this movie than there were in the original trilogy. First of all, because we have the travelogues in 'The Hobbit' which goes to places and variations on races that were not addressed in the trilogy.”

Character designer Aaron Sims on Magneto: “Remember the scene [from 'X-Men'] in the concentration camp where you see Magneto as a young boy? It just continues from there. Some people thought that might be too dark, but I really like that. It’s a lot of death and mayhem.”

“A sequel to ‘Bull Durham,’ the 1988 movie that helped jump-start the popularity of minor league baseball, is in the works, and the producer [Thom Mount] of the sequel said Tuesday he hopes to be filming in Durham sometime in late spring.”

Ray Wright and Scott Kosar will write for Breck Eisner’s take on George Romero’s Crazies. Production will begin early next year.

Eric Bana has signed on for Armored, Millennium Films’ remake of heist thriller Le Convoyeur. “The story follows a man who takes a job for an armored car company and ingratiates himself with his co-workers, who trust him enough to make him part of their heist plans. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, the man had his own motives for taking the job.” F. Gary Gray is in talks to direct.