Two monster movies have found writers. First up, the previously announced “Monster Squad” remake to be directed by Rob Cohen will get a script by screenwriting cousins Brian and Mark Gunn. The duo penned the direct-to-video “Bring It On Again” and will be writing the upcoming “Journey To The Center Of The Earth” sequel, so don’t get your hopes up.
Next, “Monster High” will get a script from “Smallville,” “Shanghai Noon” and “Spiderman 2” scribes Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The film is a “monster musical” that is “set at ‘frighteningly fashionable’ Monster High and features the spawn of famous monsters including Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman undergoing the trials and tribulations of high school.” Truly terrifying.
Miley Cyrus is making a movie that won’t be a Hannah Montana movie concert in 3-D. The pop singer is set to star in the Paramount/MTV Films picture, “Wake.” Fittingly, it’s based on a young-adult paranormal thriller novel and “Disturbia” co-writer Christopher Landon will adapt the book for the screen.
There’s no director in sight now that Guillermo del Toro has bailed (ok, maybe Peter Jackson if people beg hard enough), but here’s some shots of the shire, aka, photos from the already-built sets of “The Hobbit.” If this movie ends belly up, we’d imagine MGM and New Line would have wasted tens of millions of dollars.
Joe Carnahan has an idea for a sequel to “The A-Team,” but considering its less-than-impressive numbers at the box-office this past weekend, it will probably never happen. We suggest he get back to one of these projects instead, and may we suggest “Killing Pablo” as our favorite of the bunch.
Disney has killed Jerry Bruckheimer’s gestating WWII film “Killing Rommel” because it doesn’t fit in their studio’s mandate of family friendly franchise films (say that five times fast). At the very least, it saves from having to endure another “Pearl Harbor.”
The Weinstein Company are still after Miramax.
Doing the press rounds for “Jonah Hex,” Josh Brolin talked up “Goonies 2” revealing “I saw [producer] Steven Spielberg on the street about a month-and-a-half ago, and I asked him the reality because I was told by many, many people that there was a script but that didn’t work and [director] Richard Donner but that didn’t work and Steven was going to come in and do it. And I hear that there is a script, yes, but there’s no talk of doing a Goonies sequel at this very moment. And that’s the first time I’ve been truthful about that answer ever!” Thank God for that, because there’s a movie that is fine as it is. Also, who runs into Spielberg on the street? Can we switch lives with Brolin for a day?
There’s a new drama being shopped around at various cable networks that would star Kevin Spacey in a role where he would play “a charismatic cult leader.” So is this like a cable version of Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming Scientology drama? If so, we’re interested.
“Battlestar Galactica” actor Michael Hogan has joined Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie and Gary Oldman in “The Girl With The Red Riding Hood.” The film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, “is set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf. The story follows a young girl (Seyfried) who is engaged to be married (to Irons) but falls for an orphaned woodcutter (Fernandez), much to her family’s displeasure.” Filming will begin next month.
Oh yeah, Jaden Smith’s dad made some boring people attending a Sony 3D launch party happy by appearing in a super brief, super dorky “Men In Black III” clip. Will Smith makes a simple teaser trailer seem cornball even in regular 2D.