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Michael Fassbender is in talks to star as a serial killer in Broad Green Pictures’ “Entering Hades”.
The film is based on John Leake’s true crime novel about Jack Unterweger, “a celebrated Austrian journalist and best-selling author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of 11 people across multiple continents” (via Variety).
Alexander Dinelaris is currently working on the script from an original draft by Bill Wheeler.
Storyscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein will produce with Conor McCaughan and Daniel Emmerson of DMC Film.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will headline action comedy “Why We’re Killing Gunther”.
Taran Killam is making his directorial debut on the project in which he will also star with Schwarzenegger, Cobie Smulders, Bobby Moynihan, Paul Brittain, Kumail Nanjiani, Randall Park and Ryan Gaul.
According to THR, “the story focuses on a group of eccentric international assassins who become fed up with Gunther, the world’s greatest hitman who also happens to be an arrogant show-off, and decide to kill him. Their master plan, however, quickly turns into a series of embarrassing encounters as Gunther always appears one step ahead.”
Killam also penned the script and will produce with Kim Leadford, Ash Sarohia and Steve Squillante.
As Moviehole exclusively reported a couple of weeks back, Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston have now officially signed on to star in Phillip Noyce’s thriller “Above Suspicion”.
Adapted from Joe Sharkey’s book and based on a true story, the film is written by Chris Gerolmo.
“Above Suspicion” is the chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it’s a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations of the nation’s top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.
Kiersey Clemons has joined Ellen Page, Diego Luna and Nina Dobrev in “Flatliners”, Sony’s remake of the 1990 thriller.
Niels Arden Oplev will direct the movie from a screenplay by Ben Ripley.
The original movie centres on a group of medical students experimenting with near death experiences until the dark consequences begins to jeopardize their lives.
According to Variety, “Clemons will play a young medical student struggling to endure both the rigors of her workload and the overbearing mother with whom she still lives.”
Charlie Weber will star in political thriller “Ex-Patriot”, from director Conor Allyn.
Conor Allyn and Jake Allyn wrote the script about “a CIA analyst-turned-whistle blower who flees to Colombia for a life of penance and obscurity. When she is tracked down by her former flame, portrayed by Weber, he enlists her help in taking down a money-laundering magnate with supposed ties to terrorism but a personal vendetta proves that no one can be trusted” (via Variety).
