The Tracking Board’s Daily Debrief (06.01.17)

Julia Roberts Teaming With HBO For Limited Series Today Will Be Different 

An adaptation of Maria Semple’s New York Times Bestseller novel Today Will Be Different has landed at HBO with Julia Roberts attached to star and produce. The project is in development at Annapurna Television.

John Wick: Chapter 3 Taps Original Writer Derek Kolstad to Line Up New Victims For Keanu Reeves

Basil Iwanyk is returning to produce Chapter 3, though plot details are being kept somewhere inside the Continental Hotel. It’s wise of Lionsgate to keep this creative team intact, because in Hollywood, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Carey Mulligan Set For Adaptation of Vietnam War Drama On The Other Side

Academy Award-nominated actress Carrie Mulligan has been tapped to star in On the Other Side as Vietnam war correspondent Kate Webb. The film tells the true story of Webb, who was held in captivity by the Viet Cong for 23 days.

More News From Around The Web

• Golden Globe winner and multi-Oscar nominee Michelle Williams has boarded Amy Schumer’s feature I Feel Pretty and will play the part of Avery LeClaire, the stunning cosmetics company boss to Schumer’s Renee Bennett. (Deadline)

• Amanda Seyfried has closed a deal to return to star in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, a film that Universal is quickly moving into production for a July 20, 2018 release date. (Deadline)

• Elizabeth Debicki will voice one of the characters in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 star joins the core cast of Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Kris Wu, John Goodman, and Ethan Hawke. (Variety)

• Brendan Fraser has been cast in FX’s anthology series Trust in a leading role and will star opposite A-listers Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank. The drama hails from the Academy Award-winning team of Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, and Christian Colson. (Variety)

• Despite some recent encouraging signs, Season 2 of Netflix’s sci-fi drama series Sense8, from Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, will be its last as the Internet network has opted not to proceed with a third. (Deadline)

• Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment and Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s White Horse Pictures have signed on to collaborate for the feature documentary on famed tenor and opera icon Luciano Pavarotti. (Deadline)

• Amblin Partners just acquired a pitch from writers Greg Erb and Jason Oremland based on the book Sky High, for Diary Of A Wimpy Kid director Thor Freudenthal. (Deadline)

• Italian producer Cattleya has set Emmy-nominated docu filmmaker Francesco Carrozzini to direct Midnight Sun, an adaption of the bestselling Jo Nesbo novel. (Deadline)