joblo.com – SPY HUNTER has spent a long time in what we fondly refer to as "development hell." A style-over-substance arcade game from the early 80s that ate more than its fair share of my quarters, SPY HUNTER has languished in the proverbial Hollywood backlot as director after director has expressed interest and then moved on.

21 weeks 5 days ago via theothersenhman

feedproxy.google.com – Jonathan Herman will write the screenplay, which centers on an anonymous, ruthless, highly-skilled hacker who targets the student body of a large suburban high school. 22 weeks 2 days ago via donnieyen

guardian.co.uk – Angry Birds has been topping app store charts around the world, but now the game's developer Rovio has its sights set on Hollywood in another way: an official Angry Birds movie. The company has announced that the film will be released in the summer of 2016, with John Cohen signed on to produce it, and David Maisel executive producing. 22 weeks 4 days ago via jetli

comingsoon.net – Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company, has acquired the rights to "Breed," a novel by Chase Novak aka Scott Spencer. Summit has hired Burr Steers to write and direct the horror thriller which David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films will produce. Recognizing the tremendous potential of the novel, Mulholland Books ordered a sequel novel to follow Breed before it was published in September 2012. 22 weeks 4 days ago via jetli

deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: Peter O’Brien has just been hired by Warner Bros. to adapt Trust Your Eyes, the Linwood Barclay novel that Todd Phillips is attached to direct. Phillips and his Green Hat Films banner is producing with Dan Lin, with Jon Silk co-producing. The book is a Rear Window-style paranoid thriller.

24 weeks 20 hours ago via donnieyen

shocktillyoudrop.com – The writing team of Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are at work on a big screen adaptation of the God of War video game series and, during a discussion about their latest effort The Collection (opening this Friday), they provided ShockTillYouDrop.com with an update on how the script is coming along.

24 weeks 3 days ago via brucelee

deadline.com – EXCLUSIVE: D.W. Harper has been set to write a new draft of The Forever War for Fox 2000 and Scott Free. It’s a directing vehicle for Ridley Scott, who for 25 years has wanted to helm an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s 1974 seminal science fiction novel. The hope is to get the project moving with a script by Harper, who most recently wrote All You Need Is Kill, the scifi film that is in production with Tom Cruise starring and Doug Liman directing. 24 weeks 3 days ago via jackiechan