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"The Walt Disney Co. has paid mid-six against low-seven figures to buy a feature treatment and the underlying feature film rights to manuscript "The Last Lap" from writer Mike Leonard.Comedy is based on the true story of Leonard, a Chicago-based feature correspondent for NBC's "The Today Show" who drops everything to rent an RV to travel across America for a month with his funny and eccentric elderly parents to see the places and people who shaped their lives. Riding behind them in another RV are Leonard's three grown children. Journey ends with the birth of Leonard's granddaughter. Adam Shankman is eyeing project to direct..." (full details) "Tobe Hooper, creator of the original 1974 "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," has hired "2001 Maniacs" scribes Chris Kobin and Tim Sullivan to pen the third release of his TH Nightmares horror franchise. Hooper and producing partner Alan Somers picked Kobin and Sullivan after reading the duo's remake of the 1967 cult hit "She Freak." Hooper and Somers are currently shooting "Mortuary," with thriller "Marked" to follow. Producers would reveal neither title nor storyline. Pic should shoot later this year..." (full details) "Michael Winterbottom has optioned the story of the Tipton Three -- three young British Asian men from the small town of Tipton in the English Midlands, who were captured by the Allied forces in Afghanistan and sent to Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released last March. Accusations that they had links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda were never substantiated. They returned home with graphic tales of abuse at the hands of their American guards. Winterbottom and his producer Andrew Eaton are still working out what to do with the material they have gleaned from personal interviews with the three..." (full details) Thanks to 'Gerard'

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