Compiled by the staff at Moviehole, Quick News is an assortment of news bites and other miscellaneous items, linkage and plugs that we just couldn’t find either time or space (or both) to place as individual news items. If you’d like something included in this section email us or tweet us!
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London-based Working Title has optioned the upcoming children’s book “The History Keepers“, a “Harry Potter meets Doctor Who” adventure about a boy whose parents have been kidnapped not only to another part of the world but another time completely. [Deadline]
There are several more pictures of Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming “The Iron Lady” online
Steve Carell looks to join Meryl Streep in the David Frankel-directed ”Great Hope Springs”. The “Get Smart” actor would play a marriage therapist who tries to help a couple rekindle their loveless relationship after 31 years of marriage. [Deadline]
Paramount Pictures has just closed a deal for screen rights to ”Forgotten”, a Cat Patrick written novel about ”a 16-year old whose memory is erased at 4:33 every night. The following morning, all she can remember are events from her future.” “True Grit” Oscar Nominee Hailee Steinfeld is set to star. [Deadline]
“The Amazing Spider-Man” mightn’t be so much of a reboot after all. Marvel’s Avi Arad says the film fits in with the framework of Sam Raimi’s previous films. “It’s not a comeback,” he says. “You have to look at it this way: Do you want to know more about Spider-Man? This movie is going to tell stories that you didn’t see in movies 1, 2, and 3.” [ThinkMcFlyThink]
That ‘Untitled Cancer Comedy’ with Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon Levitt has been renamed “50/50” [MovieWeb]
“Unknown” helmer Jaume Collet-Serra is making a deal to direct ”Red Circle”, the remake of the 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville-directed ”Le Cercle Rouge”. [Deadline]
“The Fighter” writer Scott Silver could be working on a superhero reimagining of “Samson & Delilah” for Warner Bros. [NBC]
“Mean Girls” helmer Mark Waters will remake the Lee Hae-joon-directed Korean drama ”Castaway On The Moon” [Deadline]
Patrick Wilson of “The A-Team” and “Little Children” fame will star in the new untitled Susannah Grant drama for CBS. The Jonathan ‘Philadelphia’ Demme directed pilot centers ”on an ultra-competitive surgeon (Wilson) whose life is changed forever when his ex-wife dies and begins teaching him what life is all about from the here-after”. [Deadline]
Leelee Sobieski will star in the Robert De Niro produced drama pilot “Rookies“, about six NYPD rookies who balance their personal lives with learning the beat on the streets of Manhattan. James Mangold of 3:10 to Yuma fame is directing the pilot. [Deadline]
A new red-band trailer for “Hall Pass” starring Owen Wilson is online :
Channing Tatum’s Mrs Jenna Dewan-Tatum has been added to the cast of “Playboy“, the NBC drama pilot set at a 1960’s Playboy club. Leah Renee and Amber Heard are also onboard. [Deadline]
“Lone Ranger” director Gore Verbinski might be considering Timothy Olyphant (“Justified”) for the role of the Ranger. [MovieWeb]
“Hot Tub Time Machine” star Rob Corddry will star in the single-camera comedy “Little in Common“. The laffer, from “Veronica Mars” creator Rob Thomas and set to air on Fox, is about 3 families united through their kids’ little league sports. Paula Marshall (“Spin City”) is in talks to join the cast. [Deadline]
“Thor” co-star Kat Dennings will star in the new Michael Patrick King (“Sex and the City”) series “Two Broke Girls“, it tells of two women – both poor – who meet as waiters and hatch a business plan together. [THR]
Joseph Morgan has signed on to play the evil vampire Klaus on TV’s “The Vampire Diaries“. [Rabid Doll]
As previously rumoured, Tim Allen has now officially agreed to return to TV with the starring role in ABC’s ”Last Days of Man” – which will no longer be the title. The series was to center on a guy whose world is dominated by women but apparently it’s being retooled. [Deadline]
Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson will star in the action thriller “Freelancers“, playing the son of a slain NYPD officer who joins the force and welcomed by his father’s former partner into the ranks of his vice crime task force — and on to a team of rogue Gotham cops. [Variety]
You can scratch Diane Kruger off “Superman” director Zack Snyder’s ‘Ursa’ shortlist; the actress says there was never any truth to the rumours that she was up for the part but more so she’s not interested. “What am I gonna do, you know? I guess it’s better to be associated with Superman than with…I dunno…Police Academy 10.” [Collider]
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