Adaptations

Disney has the rights to, and Kickstart Entertainment will also produce, Monster Attack Network. Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman, and Nima Sorat’s adventure graphic novel is about the giant monster populated island of Lapuatu, and team who must handle rampages and clean up related messes.

Paramount Pictures and Plan b have the rights to Mark Crilley’s world manga Miki Falls. Sera Gamble will adapt the high school story of student Miki Yoshida’s attempts to connect with a mysterious transfer student during their senior year.

Hiroyuki Murata’s high school comedy manga Kogyoaika Volleyboys will be made into a live action movie. Three students nicknamed the Numa-Kō 3 Baka Trio (The Asanuma Technical High School Idiot Trio) star a volleyball team in an attempt to become popular.

Oren Segal has optioned Lisa Lerner’s science fiction novel Just Like Beauty. Nick Pustay will adapt the dark comedy about beauty pageant contestant in a dystopian future with blowtorch gangs, mutant grasshoppers, and a suicide cult.

Max Thierot will star in Chuck Russell’s science fiction action Prodigy. Adapted by Dave Kalstein from his novel, it’s about two students who reluctantly join forces to uncover the conspiracy at thier elite boarding school where pharmaceuticals are used to produce future world leaders. Principal photography starts October in Spain.

Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Michael Culkin, Johnny Harris, Max Irons have been cast in Oliver Parker’s Dorian. Based on Oscar Wilde’s supernatural novel, it will release in the UK in 2009.

Roger Avary is working on a script for a proposed movie based on video game Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Todd Hollenshead says, "I've recently been in contact with Roger, and he's actually working on the script right now." … "I think that from a progress standpoint, it's probably gone a little bit slower than what we would have expected--you can't control these strikes and so on."

Samuel L. Jackson on the plan for the live action Afro Samurai, "I'll be the dead father. I'll show up in some spiritual scenes, and give him some guidance. We'll find some young guy that is capable of doing all those things and make it really cool. When look at [Afro], I see André 3000." There is still no finalized script.

Russian bodybuilder and actor Alexander Nevsky will star in Hollywood Storm produced Hercules: The Beginning.