Holy shit this weekend (and late Friday night) was nuts. In case you’re one of those readers that is RSS/Twitter challenged (surprisingly more than we thought) and you only use the main page to view our stories (how are you supposed to find out if Google shuts us down and we move to another alternate site in the meantime? You should keep tabs on our Twitter), here’s a recap of a whole ton of news that we reported this weekend.
David Fincher attached himself to direct a big tentpole vehicle in, “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.” Yes, the same project Disney canceled earlier this year with McG aboard as the helmer cause it was too dark (irony alert). Scott Z. Burns (“The Informant,” “Bourne Ultimatum”) is writing.
Steven Soderbergh’s virus thriller “Contagion” scored an October, 2011 release date. It’s also going 3D, no joke, but Soderbergh has also had plans for 3D since 2008. Speaking of 3D, they’re making a 3D biopic about famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.
Martin Scorsese finished shooting his George Harrison documentary which now has a title, “Living in the Material World: George Harrison” and is currently being shopped around in Cannes towards a 2011 release date.
It looks like Cameron Crowe is directing “We Bought A Zoo” and Ben Stiller and/or Matt Damon may star.
Sean Gullette, the co-writer and star of Darren Aronofsky’s feature debut “π” (“Pi”) is making his feature-length directorial debut with a conspiracy thriller called “Tangiers” that Emile Hirsch may play the lead in. Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures is producing.
Lance Bangs is making a documentary about AIDS in Africa. Spike Jonze, who co-directed the Maurice Sendak documentary with him that was released earlier this year, is producing.
The Wachowski Brothers — Larry (or Lana if you like) and Andy — have a new project in the works that they are shopping around at Cannes which is — no joke — a Gay, hard-R Iraq War picture about a homosexual American solider who falls in love with an Iraqi. Wow.
Sony’s “Spider-Man” script go-to guy Alvin Sargent (who is married to “Spider-Man” producer Laura Ziskin) is going to polish/punch-up the “Spider-Man” 3D script written by James Vanderbilt (“Zodiac,” “The Losers,” “The Rundown”).
Carla Gugino and Stanley Tucci joined Kevin Spacey and Zachary Qunito in the financial crisis film, “Margin Call.”
The Warner Bros./”Superman” Shuster & Siegel heir rights battle just got way uglier.
Bruce Willis was cast to play the older version of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Rian Johnson’s time travel film, “Looper.” Do note though, writer/director David Koepp’s “Premium Rush” starring JGL — about a bike courier being chased through Manhattan by dirty cops desperate to get their hands on a package he’s carrying — will shoot first.
–Written by Edward Davis