Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.
Alex Litvak
Lionsgate bought ARCANA by Alex Litvak & Michael Finch. The mixed-race son of an undocumented immigrant mother and absentee father discovers the existence of secret communities of magic hiding in plain sight.
Story details are being kept under wraps but described as Running Man meets Bloodsport.
The worldwide rights to Alex Litvak’s forthcoming untitled heist thriller have landed at LeVision Entertainment in a pre-emptive strike. Litvak wrote the script which is being described as “an international high-octane thriller in the vein of Ocean’s Eleven about seven rival thieves chasing after one heist.”
Seven competing thieves take on the same heist.
Centers on seven rival thieves chasing after one heist.
McG is currently in talks in taking the reins of the movie based on the Mattel toy line about He-Man, a prince that becomes a powerful warrior via his magical sword to defend the land of Eternia against the villainous Skeletor.
Stan Lee is creating an all new female superhero and he’s chosen Li Bingbing as his muse. The film, called Realm, is based on an original idea of Lee’s.
Based on an original idea from Stan Lee about a Chinese, female superhero. Plot details are unknown.
Jordan Schur has found directors for two of his projects under the new Suretone Pictures banner.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as a Dirty Dozen set in the Middle Ages, complete with huge action pieces, castles, and plagues, etc.
Logline: Pitched as being “American Splendor” in tone, story will chronicle the life of The Who’s late drummer, Keith Moon.
“The Three Musketeers” scribe takes on another adaptation.
Logline: A man sets out to gain enlightenment and seeks the betterment of mankind after he loses everything to warfare.
Logline: Story centers on a factory where made-to-order heroes are built for specific missions across the universe.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but being pitched as a deep space action/thriller.
Logline: After his father, a respected Mexican politician, is brutally murdered, his son vows to clean up the streets, and to run for office to take back the country he loves. And to do it, he’s going to need to hire four of the most dangerous men in the world to help him.
Logline: A re-imagining of the classic novels written by Alexandre Dumas that follow the story of a young d’Artagnan, who longs to become a great musketeer – one of the personal guards of the French crown. He encounters and befriends the contentious Athos, Porthos, and Aramis – three musketeers of legend and folly.
Logline: Story centers on Prince Adam, who, after uttering the magic words “By the power of Grayskull, I have the power,” magically turned into the heroic He-Man, the hero who along with his allies — Battle Cat, Man-at-Arms and Orko — defended the planet Eternia, and their Castle Grayskull from the evil forces of Skeletor.
Logline: A female DEA agent recruits a master thief in order to pull off a diamond heist from a submarine 600 meters below the surface of the ocean.
Logline: Described as “The Dirty Dozen†set in the Middle Ages and centering on seven prisoners — a gypsy, a thief, a samurai, a knight, a monk, an Arab and a Viking.
