Good Fear Content is out with STARF*CKER by Megan Ritchie. After a famous movie star’s husband tries to kill her, she recruits her loyal glam squad to help her exact revenge by destroying that which he loves most.
Zak Penn
Penn has written a number of comic book adaptations from X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand to The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers for Marvel Studios.
He’s a homegrown director for Warner Bros., where he made House of Wax, Orphan, Unknown and Run All Night. The studio also hired him to direct Akira at one point.
It’s unclear whether Warner Bros. is hiring Zak Penn to write a treatment or opening a writers room, but the studio wants Michael B. Jordan to star. Sorry, Keanu!
Based on the DC comics, a man travels from the future with stolen technology in order to become a famous superhero in the present, and teams up with a teenager who has been given superpowers from advanced alien technology called Scarab.
Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, two DC comics superheros that have long been rumored to appear in either an upcoming film or TV show, are now being groomed for a team-up feature from Warner Bros, with Arrow creator Greg Berlanti directing.
The indie starlet is in talks to play a virtual treasure hunt in Steven Spielberg’s next directing project
Goldsman will oversee meetings with Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, where future plans for the franchise will be discussed.
The “Interstellar” director may take on some problems closer to home.
The super hero movie scribe will pen the adaptation.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but expected to expand the existing Transformers universe.
Penn will cowrite the sequel to the 2013 blockbuster with Guillermo del Toro.
The “X-Men: The Last Stand” scribe will write MGM’s remake of the Matthew Broderick film.
Logline: An FBI agent is drawn into a classified military program that trains its operatives to use paranormal abilities.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps but in the vein of “Chronicle”.
Logline: Kept under wraps but in the vein of “Chronicle”.
Logline: A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he inadvertently starts the countdown to World War 3.
ABC reboots two foreign formats, snags another musical series, and an action/adventure adaptation, CBS continues their Zuicker affair with Detail, CW gets a little jealous and decides to go supernatural with Zuicker, and musical with Prickly, while Disney Channel finds a little Gravity, Fox finds Godfrey and a Free Ride, Starz eyes Hollywood’s nightlife, and SyFy says yes (again) to Alphas!
Logline: Story of an American kid who must win a mixed martial arts tournament in Hong Kong to save his master from the Triad.
Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.
Logline: Chronicles the formation of a team of super heroes comprised of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and other adventurers. This film will be an origin story for the team, and their initial battle against the forces of evil.
Logline: The legendary heroes of ancient Greece, Jason and his band of heroic soldiers, the Argonauts, go on an epic quest to find the Golden Fleece.
