Paramount's tapped Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn to pen an off-kilter adventure version of the seminal knight's story "St. George and the Dragon". "'St. George and the Dragon' is the enduring myth of a knight's struggle to save a feudal princess from a fearsome beast," Producer Gary Wick said. "In Auburn's retelling, the knight will be not so chivalrous, and the princess not so chaste"..." (full details)

"Screenwriter Michael Seitzman ("North Country") reveals he's he's adapting Mary Doria Russell's debut SF-religious novel The Sparrow for the screen for Warner Brothers and Brad Pitt's Plan B company. Seitzman offered additional plot details. "We've heard radio signals from another planet. The Vatican has sent a mission. And through a series of very benign mistakes, the [Jesuit] priests set off a civil war on the planet. I think it asks that question, which I think is the most relevant question facing the world right now"..." (full details)

"Jane Seymour said that at Sunday's Emmys, she ran into her Wedding Crashers screenwriter, Steve Faber, who told her he is working on a sequel that would include the actress"..." (full details)

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