"Second unit director Simon Crane is poised to make his directorial debut with Intermedia's "Adrenaline." Penned by Mike Finch, the project is an action tale set in the world of thrill seekers who use their death-defying skills to pull off seemingly impossible heists. The script is undergoing a production rewrite, with the intention to put it on a fast track with cast and prospective domestic partners for a midsummer start..." (full details)

"Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned feature rights to Karl Iagnemma's short story "On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction," which Heyday Film and Plan B Entertainment will produce. In "Interaction," which appears in the author's short-story collection of the same name, a young academic tries to formulate a series of mathematical equations that will force his randy girlfriend to make a commitment to him. Kiernan and Michele Mulroney will script..." (full details)

"Working Title is picking up "Suicide Squad," a spec by Christopher Dean Johnston. The comedy centers on an ex-con who scores a job at a suicide crisis hot line. Looking for respect and a healthy payday, he recruits a ragtag group of suicidal outcasts to help him knock over a horse track..." (full details)

"Revelstone Entertainment has optioned the rights to the first six books in Stephen Donaldson's "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant." series, which "Band of Brothers" scribe John Orloff will adapt. The books revolve around a shunned author (Covenant) who is magically transported to the Land, a mystical world where he discovers he is the incarnation of a great hero. Covenant thinks it's all a dream. But he's the bearer of a magical talisman, and is enlisted to help save the Land from Saturn and his representatives..." (full details)

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