According to Deadline News, it looks as if David Fincher is thinking about being involved with the filming of the bestselling novel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. The novel was acquired in a seven figure deal by 20th Century Fox and is to be produced by Pacific Standard’s Reese Witherspoon. The first draft of the screenplay has been written by the author. Not surprisingly, two of Flynn’s other books are in the works as movie projects. Dark Places which has Amy Adams attached to it and Sharp Objects. Fincher is still on board to continue with the Stieg Larsson series.
James Franco has announced that he is to direct and star in
the adaptation of James Ellroy’s American
Tabloid. According to Deadline
News the adaptation is still in the early stages. American
Tabloid follows five years in the lives of three ex-law enforcement
officers embroiled in shady interconnected Washington dealings that lead to
President Kennedy’s 1963 assassination.
It is not the first time attempts have been made to adapt American
Tabloid. Blood’s A Rover the third
book in the trilogy is currently been developed with Ellroy as the executive
producer.
Kill Your Darlings,
which features Daniel Radcliffe and is the untold story of a murder that
brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs is
according to Deadline
News close to having a deal done by Sony Pictures Classics covering
multiple territories.
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If you haven’t yet seen the poster for Danny Boyle’s new film Trance see below –
Trance, is a
psychological thriller starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel
and centres on "a fine art auctioneer, mixed up with a criminal gang, who
join forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting.". Trance is due in the cinema in the UK on
March 27.
It looks as if Joaquin Phoenix is in talks to star in the adaptation
of Inherent Vice. Inherent
Vice is a noir tale, set in 1969 Los Angeles, and is based on Thomas
Pynchon's 2009 novel about a weed-smoking private detective on a kidnapping
case.
With British crime dramas on a high another film to look out
for is All Things To All Men, staring
Gabriel Byrne, Rufus Sewell and Toby Stephens.
Stephens plays Riley, a professional thief, who's hired to pull off
"the ultimate sting" only to find himself caught between
maverick cop Parker (Sewell) and crime lord Corso (Byrne). With Parker
determined to bring down Corso, the sting going wrong and the stakes get higher
and higer. All Things To Men is out in the UK on 8 March.
Another film to look out for is The Liability, a British
gangster film featuring Tim Roth who plays a ruthless hit-man. The
Liability follows the tale of a teenager who is taken under Roth’s wing as
he tries to earn some money to pay back his father. The Liability is out in the UK on 22 February 2013. The trailer can be seen below.
According to Firstshowing.net
Denzel Washington and Mark Whalberg are staring in the action thriller 2 Guns which is an adaptation based on
Steven Grant's graphic novel of the same name.
2 Guns is a pulp story a
man named Trench who has targeted a local bank to rob and asked another thief
named Steadman in on the job. Trench
figures it's a great way to score – considering it's a cover for mob money. They'll be thieves ripping off thieves. But what Steadman doesn't know is that Trench
is a DEA agent. And what Trench doesn't
know is that Steadman's got his own secret and isn't who he appears to be... 2 Guns is due out in August 2013.
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