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It’s morphin’ time for Elizabeth Banks! The Hunger Games actress has signed on to star as the villainous alien witch, Rita Repulsa in the movie adaptation of Power Rangers.
Based on the 1986 film, the story follows Jack Burton, an All-American trucker who gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Originally sold as a pitch with a script by Kyle Ward back in 2011, Arabian Knights is trucking along at Universal Pictures with help from Imagine Entertainment and Blacklight Transmedia.
“X-Men: First Class” writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are set to pen the screenplay, with “Crazy, Stupid, Love” directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa in talks to helm.
The “X-Men: First Class” writers will take on Lionsgate’s adaptation of the hit TV show.
Logline: Reboot based on the 90s television series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.”
Fingers crossed for anyone other than Kurtzman and Orci!
“X-Men: First Class” scribes revive the Tom Cruise starrer.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but it will be an adventure set in the 1950s.
Underworld/Die Hard Helmer Set For The Post Apocalyptic World As Seen Through The Eyes Of Writers From X-Men, Thor and Fringe!
Logline: Story of an eccentric inventor, described as Tony Stark meets Steve Jobs, working inside the ACME warehouse whose inventions take him on a wild adventure.
Logline: Story centers on Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman by day and bounty hunter by night.
Logline: Story follows a group of people who survive the apocalypse and investigate the mysterious circumstances of how they got there.
Four individuals gain superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific mission to outer space.
Logline: The teenage years of the mutants, and the early friendships between Professor Xavier and Magneto, are explored as they create Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.