"Emily Blunt is the latest addition to Fox 2000's "The Devil Wears Prada." Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep already have boarded the adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-selling tome, which is set at a glitzy Manhattan fashion magazine. Blunt will play Emily, the magazine's senior assistant and loyal servant to despotic editor Miranda (Streep). Hathaway will play Andrea, a Brown University grad and wannabe writer who lands the coveted but nightmarish job as Miranda's assistant. David Frankel directs..." (full details)
"Adam Friedman has acquired Joe R. Lansdale's best-selling novel "A Fine Dark Line" and will produce as a feature film. Friedman, who also will direct, has tapped Lansdale to write the screenplay. Set in 1950s rural East Texas, "A Fine Dark Line" is the coming-of-age story of Stanley Mitchell, a young boy consumed by the contents of an old tin box that caries the secrets of a small town's past. Friedman said, likening the story to "Stand by Me" but with a ghost story twist..." (full details)
"Keira Knightley is circling a new biopic on screen legend, Audrey Hepburn. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star tells Sky News that she's had chats with the money-men about wearing the trousers of the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" starlet in a new movie. "I have been spoken to with regards to the role of Hepburn", says Knightley. "It's intriguing as the film goes behind the lady we all knew so well but I am unsure, as such an icon is always hard to find as an actress." She added: "I would love to play her but it's all early days as yet"..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
