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Back in April, HOLLYWOOD SPY informed you that a Japanese sci-fi war novel ALL YOU NEED IS KILL will be made into a Warner Brothers film.  The latest news say the main role has been offered to Ryan Gosling. This will be a futuristic, alien invasion story about a soldier who is
killed in action when forced to battle a vicious alien species. He returns at the start of every day to relive this fate for eternity. In the process, he becomes a great warrior and discovers that he may be able to change his destiny as well as the course of war.

One of the most famous movie producers of all times Dino de Laurentiis has died yesterday at the age of 91. Since I've always loved spectacular epics and huge movies with stunning visuals and magnificent adventures,  back as a kid I always liked seeing his name at the beginning of a film because it promised great fun and luxurious movies. Some of the films he produced include DUNE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, BARBARELLA, KING KONG...

Here's a lovely excuse to post a pic of super gorgeous Elizabeth Banks (the queen of the red carpet if I may add) for all my guys: she will join Chris Pine in WELCOME TO PEOPLE, a film which already sounds a bit boring - it follows  a struggling man in his 20's who returns home to LA for the funeral of his estranged record producer father and discovers that the will stipulates he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30 year old alcoholic sister he never knew existed and her troubled 12 year old son. Banks will be the alcoholic sister.

Since wizards are so popular these days, Hollywood doesn't want us to watch MERLIN only in the popular BBC's show with Collin Morgan and in the upcoming Starz's CAMELOT show, so we will be watching the wise wizard in a new film by Working Title as well, and the only thing which we know so far is that it will be a contemporary take on the legendary magician that will bring MERLIN into a modern setting.

HOLLYWOOD SPY has already written about TRUE BLOOD'S hunk Joe Manganiello being a possible new SUPERMAN in Zack Snyder's reboot of the superhero movie,but the rumors are circling again. And Manganiello is not making it any easier to clear the mystery since he used ambiguous quotation marks in his recent Tweet about the whole story: Just to be clear... as of today,

I am not "negotiating" to play Superman ...but keep your fingers crossed and thanks for the wishful thinking! There were also rumors that either Brandon Routh or Tom Welling could take the role as well, but Snyder did say the film will be a new take on the story so he might go for new actors as well.

Ah, that Scarlett Johansson is really busy: not only that she might get the lead role in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES and that she is now in final talks to star in WE BOUGHT A ZOO, she will also take a pretty ridiculous role in UNDER THE SKIN,  a sci-fi film about an alien disguised in the form of a mesmerizing woman who uses her voracious sexuality to hunt for human prey, but then finds herself on a collision course with her own kind when she becomes drawn to the complexity of life on earth.

Disney is going to do a film adaptation of the comic book COWBOY NINJA VIKING,  in which the lead hero  is thecreation of  a psychotherapist who recruits Multiple Personality Disorder patients to produce a unit of counter-intelligence agents called Triplets. But when those guys become out of control assassins he must call the deadliest Triplet of them all - COWBOY NINJA VIKING -  to take down his own brethren.

The plot for the upcoming reboot of JUDGE DREDD with Karl Urban has been revealed: the main characters are Judge Cassandra Anderson and Judge Dredd.
Anderson is a psychic Judge on a ride-along with Dredd and she is trying to prove herself  worthy of being a Mega City One Judge. The main villain is a drug pusher name Ma-Ma Clang, who pushes a new drug called Slo-Mo that slows down time for the user. He works out of a complex called Peach Trees where  the Judges will find themselves locked in, with Ma-Ma Clang ordering their death.The sad, sad, sad news is that according to the script Dredd never takes his helmet off during the film, which means we won't see any of Karl Urban's face.

The team which made DESPICABLE ME is preparing a new environmentally friendly animated project - THE LORAX by Dr. Seuss, and you can check out the first image of a stumpy little guy who stands on a tree stump deploring the destruction of aforest. Danny De Vito will give voice to Lorax, and other characters will also include The Once-ler, a shortsighted, greedy creature who chops down every tree he can find, and O'Hare, another industrialist who sells cans of fresh air to the polluted world the Once-ler creates and wants to keep it that way. Betty White and Zac Efron will also be the part of the voice cast.

Last year I wrote a beautiful article revealing that the story of the famous battle at AGINCOURT was going to be made into a film, but now it seems the possible director could be famous Michael Mann (THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS).Based on the bestselling novel by Bernard Cornwell, this medieval epic will describe the famous 15th century battle between England lead by young king Henry V and France. Henry lead his glorious army in the quest to claim the French crown but he soon discovered that the enemy was more daunting than he could ever have imagined. But although much more bigger, the French army had at least five times more casualties in the end with most of the French noble men dying in the battle.


And check out the cool new poster from next year's futuristic thriller THE DIVIDE. Starring Milo Ventimiglia, Rossana Arquette and Michael Biehn it starts after a cataclysmic explosiondevastates New York and eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter. While they try to fathom the catastrophe that has ended their world, suddenly men in HAZMAT suits storm their shelter and open fire. The strangers join forces in a desperate bid to take on this enemy and to, later on, deal with the claustrophobia, radiation-poisoning and dwindling supplies. But in order to survive the end of the world they must first survive each other. HOLLYWOOD SPY has published an intense trailer of THE DIVIDE earlier this year.

Breathtakingly gorgeous Imogen Poots, who shined in this year's epic CENTURION, will star in TRAP FOR CINDERELLA,  the film about two women, one wealthy and the other poor, who
are trapped inside a beach house in a French resort when it is gutted by fire. Only one of them survives, burnt beyond recognition and in a state of total amnesia, unaware whether she is the heiress or penniless friend.

Relativity Media has bought the rights for an adaptation of Michael Drosnin's famous book series THE BIBLE CODE which is based on a 3000 year-old code in the Bible found by a top Israeli scientist and confirmed by a senior code breaker at the US National Security Agency. It reveals momentous historical events,
and predicts the future, and it has even successfully predicted world events such as the election of President Barack Obama, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

One of my favourite directors Stephen Sommers (THE MUMMY, VAN HELSING), a man who always has fun while shooting films, will adapt the popular ODD THOMAS book series by Dean Koontz into a $47 million movie. Combining action with heart, laughs and scares the story centers on a man who can see the dead and although he cannot communicate with them, he tries to solve their problems.
Our lovely Rachel Weisz will star in the period drama THE DEEP BLUE SEA, the story of a privileged housewife  in 1950's London society who leaves her husband (Simon Russell Beale) for a young ex-Royal Air Force pilot (Tom Hiddleston from THOR). Seems like a possible contender for the film awards.

The second trailer for Zack Snyder's action fantasy SUCKER PUNCH was released yesterday, bringing even more breathtaking and mind blowing visual extravaganza. Starring Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens and a bunch of other young girls, this epic action fantasy will take us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between what’s real and what is imaginary. In this surreal world she engages in fantastical warfare against everything from samurais to serpents accompanied by some unusual friends. The film is out next March.


And a big thanks to writer S. J. Watson the author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, the book which will be adapted into a movie, who visited us yesterday and left a comment under yesterday's post ;)