Clint Eastwood is currently in negotiations with DreamWorks to take his melodramatic cinema to the sci-fi genre. The political minded scribe, Peter Morgan (“Frost/Nixon,” “The Queen,” “The Last King of Scotland”) wrote the script for the project, which is titled “Hereafter.” The details of the plot are being kept secret, but it is supposed to be similar to “The Sixth Sense.” Sounds like the old-timer has finally lost it. [Variety]
Marc Forster can finally put “Quantum of Solace” behind him, since he has been recently employed by Paramount to direct the adaptation to Max Brooks (yes, the spawn of Mel Brooks) best-selling novel, “World Was Z.” It centers around interviews from survivors of a massive zombie attack that occurred ten years before, tearing apart every nation on earth. [Variety]
“The Office” cast member, B.J. Novak is taking a leave of absence from the show in order to appear in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, “Inglorious Basterds.” [EW]
It appears as though Brett Ratner may be pumping the breaks on the ‘Conan The Barbarian’ rehash. Despite producer’s Avi Lerner’s claims, Ratner said he had other plans when he spoke to the L.A. Times, “Let me make this very clear. I am not doing ‘Conan’ now. That is totally premature. For now, ‘Conan’ is only a development deal. I have a deal at Paramount and I’m doing ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ first, no matter what.’ [L.A. Times]
Director of L.A. Film Festival and member of the Mormon church, Rich Raddon has found himself in deep shit lately due to the discovery that he had given a sizable contribution to the anti-gay “Yes of Prop 8” committee. Literally the most unpopular person inTinsteltown today. [ Hollywood Elsewhere]
Jake Gyllenhaal sat down with Entertainment Tonight for an interview on the set of “Prince of Persia” (a movie naturally based on a video game) to showcase the dividends of his speech coach and recent steroids cycle, which resulted in unintentional hilarity. “I guess I’ve gotten buff,” he smirked to ET. Why yes he has. [Defamer]
Prince of persia looks like total shit.
I think Prince of Persia looks pretty cool. It actually looks A LOT better than I thought it would.
I bet all the gamers will love it regardless and it’ll make Bruckheimer another billion.
That annoying as hell ET video plays automatically when you load the page and it took me a while to figure out where it was coming from (“It’s not this tab, this tab, and there’ no pop-ups…WTF?!”), scroll down, and shut it off.