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New Scribe Hired For “Edge of Tomorrow 2”


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With the announcement not that long ago of the next two “Mission: Impossible” films being done back-to-back, it seemingly also suggested the demise of a sequel to the acclaimed Tom Cruise-led 2014 sci-fi action feature “Edge of Tomorrow”.


Today though, Heat Vision reports that Warner Bros. Pictures is moving forward with development on the sequel and have brought aboard writer Matthew Robinson (“The Invention of Lying,” “Monster Trucks”) to develop the script. Should it be well regarded, stars Cruise and Emily Blunt and director Doug Liman are all expected to return.

The first ‘Edge’, retitled “Live. Die. Repeat.” for the home entertainment sector, also boasted Christopher McQuarrie as a co-writer and reports from back in 2016 and 2017 indicated McQuarrie helped in early development of the follow-up. His commitments to helming the seventh and eighth “Mission: Impossible” films, however, will likely impact further involvement here.

Cruise starred in the first film as a military PR man Cage who gets stuck in a time loop in the midst of an alien invasion. Every time he dies, he starts the day over. Eventually, he comes across the path of war hero Rita (Blunt) and every day must convince her to help him with his cause.

The first film made just $370 million globally on a $178 million budget, but the critical acclaim and its growing popularity in the home entertainment sector have kept sequel talk alive.
 

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A biopic that has been set up at Warner Bros. Pictures and Voltron Pictures.
Pendergrass broke out in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, and became a massive success as an R&B solo artist.
He suffered a spinal cord injury in a 1982 traffic accident that left him a quadriplegic. He learned how to sing again and returned to perform at the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium in London in 1985.




 

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Tyrese Gibson To Play Teddy Pendergrass


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Tyrese Gibson will star as singer-songwriter Teddy Pendergrass in a biopic that has been set up at Warner Bros. Pictures and Voltron Pictures.


Pendergrass broke out in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, and became a massive success as an R&B solo artist.

He suffered a spinal cord injury in a 1982 traffic accident that left him a quadriplegic. He learned how to sing again and returned to perform at the Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium in London in 1985. He eventually retired in 2007 and died of cancer in 2010.

Warners has acquired the late singer’s life rights and “Them” creator Little Marvin will write the screenplay while Gibson, Donald De Line and “Empire” executive producer Lee Daniels will produce.
 

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Universal Moving On Rock Hudson Biopic


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Universal Pictures is reportedly in talks with Richard LaGravenese (“The Fisher King”) to pen the screenplay for the Rock Hudson biopic “All That Heaven Allows”.


The studio picked up the film rights to Mark Griffin’s memoir last year, the tome deals with the iconic leading man and closeted gay star of many romantic comedies for Universal in the 1950s and 1960s.

His death via AIDS-related complications in 1985 lead to some of the earliest public discussions about the AIDS crisis and gay actors being forced to hide their sexuality.

Prolific producer Greg Berlanti (“Love, Simon”) is attached to direct and will produce alongside Sarah Schechter and Sherry Marsh. LaGravenese recently wrote the film “Blood on the Tracks,” inspired by 1975 Bob Dylan album, for Luca Guadagnino who is developing it.
 

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The story sees two of literature’s iconic anti-heroes, Captain Nemo from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and Captain Ahab from “Moby Dick,” in conflict throughout the late 19th century.



 

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Ahab vs. Nemo In “Great Eastern” Film


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Author Howard A. Rodman’s new novel “The Great Eastern” is reportedly being developed into a feature film by Great Point Media.


The story sees two of literature’s iconic anti-heroes, Captain Nemo from “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and Captain Ahab from “Moby Dick,” in conflict throughout the late 19th century.

After Nemo kidnaps real-life civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel to build a submarine – one which would link the U.S. and England who were opposing colonial forces at the time – the three men find themselves at battle with each other.

Rodman will adapt his own work for the screenplay.
 

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“Kong” Helmer, Jordan Team For Monster Film


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“Kung: Skull Island” and “The Kings of Summer” filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts and actor/producer Michael B. Jordan are teaming up for a Detroit-set original monster movie at New Regency and Jordan’s Outlier Society label.


A search for a writer is underway with plot details being kept secret, but Vogt-Roberts will direct and Jordan will produce – it’s not clear if Jordan will also star at this point. Filming will take place in Detroit and around Michigan even though state film incentives ended there four years ago.

Vogt-Roberts’ ‘Kong’ was the second of four MonsterVerse films with this Summer’s “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” from filmmaker Michael Dougherty and next year’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” from Adam Wingard being the next two.

Seeing what those two are doing has inspired Vogt-Roberts with this project, the helmer telling Slashfilm: “I got jealous and inspired by the incredible things Dougherty and Wingard are doing right now, so I’m creating my own sandbox to play in.”

He remains attached to the “Metal Gear Solid” video game adaptation at Sony Pictures.
 

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Macon Blair To Helm “Toxic Avenger” Reboot


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Actor-turned-filmmaker Macon Blair (“I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore”) has been set to write and direct the reboot of the cult classic “The Toxic Avenger” for Legendary Entertainment.


Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz produced the original 1984 low-budget B-movie comedy. The film series told the story of a mild-mannered janitor at a health club who becomes a disfigured radioactive hulking mess after falling into a vat of toxic waste. He then uses his newfound form to fight bullies and corruption.

The original film generated three film sequels, a stage musical production, a video game and a children’s TV cartoon. Legendary acquired the rights in December and have made the project a high priority.

Blair most recently penned Jeremy Saulnier’s “Hold the Dark”.
 

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TriStar Plans “Guys and Dolls” Remake


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TriStar Pictures is planning a remake of famed gamblers and gangsters-themed Broadway musical “Guys and Dolls”.


The studio has picked up the remake rights to not just the stage musical by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser but also to the Damon Runyon short stories that inspired it and the previous 1955 film adaptation.

Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine starred in that previous version which was adapted and helmed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The musical first premiered on Broadway in 1950 where it ran for three years and captured five Tony Awards, including the best musical prize along with famed songs like “Luck Be a Lady” and “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”.

John Goldwyn (“I’m Not There”) and Marc Toberoff (“Bottle Shock”) are set to produce.
 

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The New “Akira” To Shoot In California


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The long-gestating live-action Hollywood adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic six-book manga and 1988 anime film “Akira” took a big step towards reality today.


The California Film Commission has announced that the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced project from Warner Bros. will shoot in California and receive an $18.5 million tax credit – by far the biggest of the allocations the CFC revealed today as part of the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0.

Seventeen other titles made the list, they are tipped to generate an estimated $408 million total in qualified expenditures. “Akira” will reportedly generate an estimated $92 million in qualified spending and is scheduled to film entirely in the U.S. state over the course of 71 filming days.

Set in the wake of the third World War, the story in the remake takes place in the rebuilt New Manhattan (shifting from the Neo Tokyo of the original) where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment.

The project has been in the works for a decade or so with the likes of Jaume Collet-Serra (“The Shallows”), Jordan Peele (“Us”), Justin Lin (“Fast Five”), Daniel Espinosa (“Life”) and David Sandberg (“Shazam”) all attached at one point or another. At last report, Taika Waititi was slated to direct while Andrew Lazar and Jennifer Davisson are producing and indications today are that’s still the case.
 
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