Mama Mia star Amanda Seyfried is in negotiation with Netflix for a lead role in their upcoming supernatural thriller. Titled Things Heard & Seen, it is an adaptation of the book All Things Cease To Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. According to sources, the tone is similar to Netflix’s acclaimed series The Haunting of Hill House. Thus, to[…]
Michael Fassbender has signed on to star in Taika Waititi‘s next project. It’s called Next Goal Wins, a sports dramedy based on Mike Brett and Steve Jamison‘s 2014 British documentary of the same name. The underdog story follows the American Samoa national football team and their coach as they seek to transform from perennial losers into a squad that[…]
Matt Reeves is busy directing The Batman, but he’s still found time to hitch his wagon to interesting projects. His 6th & Idaho banner will produce a feature adaptation of Clifford D. Simak‘s Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel Way Station for Netflix. The book revolves around Enoch Wallace, who has spent more than 100 years as the keeper of[…]
IT director Andy Muschietti has already found success with one Stephen King adaptation (stretched into two movies). He may direct another one. Back in 2015, a few months before he replaced Cary Fukunaga as IT director, Muschietti was announced to be helming a different King project – an adaptation of short story The Jaunt. Of course, once he[…]
Alexander Payne signed on to direct an adaptation of Karl Ove Knausgaard‘s travel articles My Saga over three and a half years ago. Various reasons led to the project frequently being pushed aside, but the film is finally heading into production, and Payne has found his leading man. Mads Mikkelsen is in advanced talks for the main role. […]