Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Paul Bettany has had enough… The only early Footloose review you’ll need… Gangster Squad gets a release date… How about them Red Sox?… and more.
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Universal may have put Ouija back in the box… 360 heads to London… Ed Zwick will climb the The Great Wall … and more ahead.
Fans of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch , steel yourself: The guy who last put Denzel Washington on top of a runaway train (and made bank at the box office doing so) wants to remake the groundbreaking 1969 Western. Deadline reports that director Tony Scott — whose most recent film was last year’s Unstoppable — is negotiating to reboot the classic Peckinpah film. He also wants to remake his own Top Gun , so clearly nothing is sacred. Read the news after the jump and weep into your cowboy boots.
You know the full cast list, you got your first look at Henry Cavill in the suit , but you still hunger for more details from Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel , eh? Well, for the Superman fans out there who just have to know, a synopsis purporting to reveal the official plot for WB’ s upcoming superhero reboot has surfaced online. But is it the real deal? (Click ahead only if you really, absolutely have to know…)
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay may not be able to coax that Anchorman sequel into development any time soon, but the pair could be collaborating on another comedy starring Ferrell as a narcissistic professional. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. has just picked up Swear to God , a pitch from Due Date writers Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland. Ferrell is attached to star as a self-involved “hedge fund manager who thinks he has seen God.” McKay would produce and possibly direct the feature under the pair’s production shingle Gary Sanchez Productions. [ Deadline ]
Jon M. Chu ‘s G.I. Joe 2 is adding a Wu-Tang veteran to its ranks! According to THR , rapper-actor-newbie director RZA is in negotiations to appear opposite Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, and Elodie Yung in the action sequel. More on RZA’ s character and the new actor cast as Flint after the jump.
The summer of 2013 just got a little more exciting: Warner Bros. has announced that they’ll release Guillermo del Toro ‘s sci-fi action pic Pacific Rim on July 12, 2013. The alien invasion film is set to star Idris Elba , Charlie Hunnam , and Charlie Day, and begins filming this November. Del Toro has described the Travis Beacham-penned project as his biggest film to date, so expect a summer monsterpalooza, del Toro-style. [ Deadline ]
The summer of 2013 just got a little more exciting: Warner Bros. has announced that they’ll release Guillermo del Toro ‘s sci-fi action pic Pacific Rim on July 12, 2013. The alien invasion film is set to star Idris Elba , Charlie Hunnam , and Charlie Day, and begins filming this November. Del Toro has described the Travis Beacham-penned project as his biggest film to date, so expect a summer monsterpalooza, del Toro-style. [ Deadline ]
Deadline reports that Laura Linney will play Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s mistress (and cousin) Daisy in Hyde Park On The Hudson , the story of George VI’ s 1939 visit to the Roosevelts in their upstate New York home. Bill Murray is slated to play FDR, and I’m slated to cast Eleanor right now — Kathy Bates, anyone? Not that she wants another mid-century period piece after the creative nadir of Revolutionary Road , of course, but she has command that defies Harry’s Law ! [ Deadline ]
Ben Affleck may have transitioned his Oscar win into a successful directing career but his Good Will Hunting star and co-writer has been content with leading big-budget pictures and producing the odd project. Until now that is. According to Deadline , Damon is seriously considering directing and starring in Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses — provided he can get his hands on it.