"Producer Paul Sandberg has optioned first-time novelist Jeff Edwards' award-winning actioner "Torpedo." The book is a modern-day technological sea-chase thriller revolving around a handful of U.S. Navy destroyers that must track down a wolfpack of state-of-the-art submarines whose passengers might have been responsible for a biological attack in Washington..." (full details)
"Benderspink has optioned the rights to the graphic novel "The Gray Area" by writer Glen Brunswick ("Ex Machina") and comic artist John Romita Jr. "Gray Area" is a supernatural thriller that follows a corrupt cop who, after being killed, goes to an afterlife known as the Gray Area, where he has to prove he's not that bad. Benderspink is viewing the property as a potential franchise..." (full details)
Writer-helmer Vanessa Parise, who won the grand jury prize at the 2002 Hamptons Film Festival for "Kiss the Bride", is following up that pic with romantic comedy "Dick and Jane vs. the World." Parise will helm and star in the film, set in the ad world, where a cynical guy who falls for a young woman with a secret past. "Dick" starts shooting next month in Toronto. "Bride" was the story of four sisters coming together to celebrate a wedding and starred Alyssa Milano and Sean Patrick Flannery..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
