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Russell Crowe is in talks to join Tom Cruise in Universal’s reboot of The Mummy, the first installment of what is expected to be a new monster movie franchise.
Courtney B. Vance is set to get wrapped up in Universal Pictures’s reboot of The Mummy. Vance will join Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, and Jake Johnson for the epic action adventure.
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Jake Johnson is set to star in the untitled reboot of The Mummy. The movie is setting up Universal’s plan to build a interconnected franchise of classic monster movies.
Annabelle Wallis is in talks to join Tom Cruise in the Universal’s untitled reboot of The Mummy which has been dubbed as an “epic action-adventure.”
Steven S. DeKnight has won the job to direct Pacific Rim 2, the sequel to the 2013 hit action film featuring robots battling monster-aliens. The first film was helmed by Guillermo del Toro with a script by Travis Beacham.
Two Tom Cruise vehicles found their leading ladies today: Sofia Boutella in the Mummy reboot and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible 6.
Tom Cruise is in negotiations to star in Universal’s The Mummy reboot. Cruise’s involvement would help to launch the studio’s planned series of monster movie revivals–but would also serve to set the tone for the franchise moving forward.
Transparent’s Amy Landecker has joined the cast of Marvel’s upcoming supernatural superhero epic Doctor Strange. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the titular superhero, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, and Mads Mikkelsen.
Eric Heisserer and Jon Spaihts have been tapped to co-write Universal’s Van Helsing reboot, which will serve as an entry in the studio’s revamped monster universe. Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are producing the pic.
No firm news on what her part may be, but the actress is officially on board.
Logline: Based on the 1997 film “Cube”, a group of strangers must work together to survive when they find themselves trapped in a terrifying cubed structure built up of 17,000 rooms.
Channing Tatum is set to star in an adaptation of the sci-fi novel, The Forever War. The sci-fi/war epic penned by Joe Haldeman is well-regarded as one of the best sci-fi stories ever written, racking in numerous awards. Science-fiction scribe Jon Spaihts has come aboard to script the adaptation.
Logline: Centers on a small band of humans and robots facing off in a battle on Earth, the moon, and Mars.
Despite widespread rumors and hearsay, Phoenix is reportedly giving the role serious consideration.
The “Prometheus” writer is in talks to board the superhero project.
Sci-Fi scribe takes on Disney remake.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Set in the 19th century, finds Bram Stroker’s fabled monster hunter Van Helsing summoned to a distant Eastern European land to vanquish evil
Logline: Details kept under wraps, but planned as a reboot to the classic monster movie The Mummy centered around a former Navy SEAL and a “Lara Croft” type archeologist who come across a mummy’s tomb.
As two superpowers fight each other on Earth for the remaining natural resources throughout the solar system, a giant spaceship, known as the Prometheus, is sent to the distant planet of Erix to terraform the world, but problems arise when the crew discover the uninhabitable planet’s indigenous life of bio-mechanoid killers.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as a space action/adventure.
Logline: In the future, a group of soldiers return from war on another planet to find Earth changed beyond recognition.
Logline: As two superpowers fight each other on Earth for the remaining natural resources throughout the solar system, a giant spaceship, known as the Prometheus, is sent to the distant planet of Erix to terraform the world, but problems arise when the crew discover the uninhabitable planet’s indigenous life of bio-mechanoid killers.