"Eric Singer is writing "Terminus," a political action movie that Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road is producing for Warner Bros. Pictures. Political thriller concerns a disillusioned war correspondent who finds he can no longer be objective after covering one insurgency after another. Set some 50 years in the future, film will project how warfare and military technology may evolve. Singer is currently writing "City of Water," based on a New Yorker article about Gotham's massive underground water tunnel system..." (full details)
"Paramount & Nickelodeon Movies has acquired feature rights to Dale Peck's upcoming fantasy novel "Drift House," centered on the time-traveling adventures of three siblings. "Drift House" will be published in September by Bloomsbury and is the first book in a planned trilogy. Story revolves around a girl and her two younger brothers being sent to live with their uncle in Canada in a house that resembles a ship perched at the edge of the sea. The siblings discover in the house a mural that seems to predict the future, a dumbwaiter that enables one of the brothers to travel into the future and a parrot historian who's also a translator..." (full details)
"Paramount is making a deal with "The Forger," buying Richard D'Ovidio's spec script and setting it up with Lorenzo Di Bonaventura. Story centers on an imprisoned thief who buys his way out of prison when he learns his estranged son has only a few months to live. But his efforts to make up for lost time with the teen are endangered when a crime boss forces him to do one last job. D'Ovidio's scripting credits include "Exit Wounds" and "Thirteen Ghosts..." (full details)
"Bob and Harvey Weinstein have picked up "Tom Yum Goong," the latest vehicle from martial arts star Tony Jaa ("Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior"), in multiple territories. Pic -- penned, helmed and produced by Prachya Pinkaew ("Ong-Bak") -- follows Jaa as a fighter who heads to Australia to retrieve stolen elephants belonging to the Thai king. Along the way, he teams with an Aussie gumshoe to crack the case..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
