Kept under wraps, but project is being pitched as a grounded sci-fi with time travel elements.
A teenage boy and girl from different backgrounds discover they can swap bodies. They become desperate to cross space and time to find a way to meet and stop an impending disaster.
Set on the eve of D-Day, Overlord follows a group of American paratroopers who are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success. But as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation.
Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot are already working with Daisy Ridley on the fantasy thriller Kolma, and now they’ve enlisted the Star Wars heroine once again, as she’s attached to play a spy in A Woman of No Importance.
Follows American heiress and super-spy Virginia Hall, who attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Rejected because of her gender and a disability, Hall worked during the war for the British intelligence unit SOE. She later joined the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
Follows American heiress and super-spy Virginia Hall, who attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Rejected because of her gender and a disability, Hall worked during the war for the British intelligence unit SOE. She later joined the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
Story details being kept under wraps, but pitched as an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist movie with animals in Las Vegas.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but centers on a college age male and contains elements of Inception and The Matrix.
Daniel Bruhl is the latest to circle the sci-fi thriller God Particle at Paramount. The growing cast includes David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Krasinski, and Elizabeth Debecki.
Elizabeth Debicki is circling a role in J.J. Abrams’s long-gestating God Particle. The cast of the Paramount sci-fi flick currently includes David Oyelowo and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. John Krasinski is also in talks to join.
Daisy Ridley and her Star Wars director J.J. Abrams may be teaming up again in Kolma, a remake of an Israeli TV movie from 2003.
It looks like John Krasinski is thinking about going the sci-fi route for his next film. The Office alum is in talks to star in J.J. Abrams’s upcoming sci-fi thriller God Particle.
Golden Globe nominated actor David Oyelowo and actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw are in negotiations to star in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sci-fi thriller God Particle.
UPDATE (3.10.16): Imperative Entertainment wins the war for David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon with a massive $5 million bid, making this one of the richest book deals to go down in recent history. Imperative beat out an offer from Star Wars director JJ Abrams.
Chronicles the real-life 1920s mystery surrounding the suspicious deaths of several Osage Indians, who were at the time among the richest people on the planet. The story follows the twists and turns of the investigation that eventually became the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover’s brand new FBI.
Tom Wheeler is done at DreamWorks for the moment, but still has his hands full with a Dora the Explorer adaptation and a chance to bring Micronauts out of development purgatory.
While the plot is still kept under wraps, Mark L. Smith has been brought on to write a new draft of the sci-fi feature from Edgar Wright and J.J. Abrams
Kept under wraps, the continuing missions of the IMF, a government agency that faces the impossible.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but described as a biopic portraying Thomas Edison as a rugged and eccentric genius.
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Logline: Story will chronicle the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong.
Logline: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Logline: A CIA agent must team up with his estranged father, who works for Mossad, to track down a fugitive Nazi scientist in 1970s Brazil.
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