Development

In the Long Time Coming department, news has arrived concerning a film adaptation of Dean Koontz’ bestselling thriller The Husband. Director Ole Bornedal, best known for the morgue thriller Nightwatch (both a foreign version and domestic remake) has been signed to make the film for Focus Features.

Quick, name a board game that could be turned into an identifiable and interesting movie. Ready? Okay, Peter Berg won’t be making that one. He may be filming Battleship instead.

I feel a joke about dinosaurs with bad teeth and sexual repression is in order…

Look kids! It’s a remake of the Steve Zahn/Paul Walker vehicle Joyride! Not really. I just wanted to make a pun.

Takashi Miike is making a samurai film. Will it suck like Sukiyaki Western Django… or like the family in Visitor Q?

How cool would it be for Corky St. Clair and Waiting for Guffman to actually make it all the way to Broadway?

It looks like Wall Street 2 is shaping up nicely. Oliver Stone is hopping on to direct, Michael Douglas may be returning, and they’ve got Shia LeBeouf joining up as a plucky young…wait…Shia LeBeouf? Really? Ah, Hamburgers!

Pierre Morel (best known to those who still insist on calling them “freedom fries” as the director of Taken) is slated to helm an action/espionage thriller set in Tokyo.

Christian Bale gets it. Making a stellar third installment isn’t going to be easy – but that’s part of the reason he wants to do it. Now, it’s just a matter of getting a certain director on board.