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Matthew Vaughn ("Layer Cake") has optioned Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel "Stardust," about the adventures of a half-fairy boy, for himself to direct whilst he's also in talks with "Trainspotting" scribe John Hodge to come aboard his remake of 1960s TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." for Warner Bros. reports Variety. "I've always wanted to make a spy movie, and our idea is like nothing you've ever seen before. The name is the only thing that's staying from the original show. The studio is giving us a lot of freedom to break the rules." Warner offered him "U.N.C.L.E." after choosing David Yates instead to direct "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Insiders say Vaughn's pitch for Potter was a tad too graphic and violent for the studio's taste. "I did slightly scare them by saying the next Potter has got to be more like 'The Dirty Dozen,'" he laughs. "But I'm not going to be one of those directors who isn't honest about what he intends to do, and then changes everything when shooting has started and it's too late to fire him. I guess that's the producer in me...People ask why I think I could direct a big movie like Potter or Bond, but making 'Lock, Stock' for $900,000 is harder than making 'Troy' for $200 million. You try making a small movie look like a bigger film, and produce it at the same time, and see how much your head gets fried in the process" says Vaughn. Thanks to 'Casey'

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