"Lions Gate Films has hired scribe Charlie Bohl ("Swimfan") to pen an untitled thriller starring LL Cool J. Project is the first in a multipic deal inked with the rapper-thesp. Lions Gate is keeping the storyline of the untitled project under wraps, except to say it will be an African-American version of a cross between "Fatal Attraction" and "Body Heat"..." (full details)
"Chris Morgan ("Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift", "Cellular") has been tapped by the studio to adapt comicbook "The Psycho". Series, created by Dan Bereton and James Hudnall, is about a world where individuals attain superpowers by taking an unpredictable and potentially lethal drug. Protag is a rogue CIA agent who risks insanity and becomes a "Psycho" himself in order to rescue his girlfriend and expose a political conspiracy..." (full details)
"Darren Grant ("Diary of a Mad Black Woman") will direct Fox 2000's comic adaptation "Venus Kincaid." "Kincaid" was created by online animation team the Love brothers. Story follows a female African-American government agent who finds herself shrunken down to a teenaged girl but retaining all of her special sleuthing skills..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'
