New Films in Production, v.2

[Murdoch]

Shirley Jackson's The Lottery is being turned into a film. Unfortunately it's being written by Jake Wade Wall, whose most notable films are the mid-noughties remakes of The Hitcher and When a Stranger Calls...

[mfunk9786]

What ever happened to that We Have Always Lived in the Castle adaptation? Looks like it was shot 2 years ago, is it just shelved?

[Murdoch]

I'm not sure either. All I could find is a Deadline article vaguely referencing it as coming soon.

[Dylan]

The Primevals, a low budget Harryhausen-style adventure film that has remained in post-production for nearly twenty years due to the death of its writer/director/animator Dave Allen in 1999, is back in production and will be finished next year.

[flyonthewall2983]

The true story of how a crooked cop rigged the McDonalds Monopoly game that was recently published in The Daily Beast, has since been courted by several major studios. Now it appears that Fox will win out, with Ben Affleck attached to direct and Matt Damon to star.

[DarkImbecile]

Tony Kaye (!) wants to cast an AI robot in his next feature (!!), and wants to get the robot SAG membership (!!!)

[flyonthewall2983]

Paramount is making a movie based on the iOS game Monument Valley

[flyonthewall2983]

Robert Zemeckis to direct Dwayne Johnson as Hawaiian king Kamehameha for WB/New Line. This has been a passion project of Johnson's for quite some time as the article states, I'm glad he's getting to do it and with someone like Zemeckis directing it too.

[domino harvey]

Armando Iannucci makes an insincere film pitch for a Trump movie on Twitter, receives at least eight offers from studios to actually make it

[Murdoch]

I'd need at least five years between this administration and that movie to ever be interested. It's already like an Iannucci script playing out.

[domino harvey]

Completely missed the news of this last month, but Pablo Larrain quickly arranged to film an additional movie while waiting for the True American to start production. Titled Ema, it stars Gael Garcia Bernal and features scenes in which the characters express themselves via interpretive dance. More details here

[mfunk9786]

Bryan Singer has somehow proven to be bulletproof in this climate, and has another comic book movie in the works

[Dylan]

Todd Haynes to direct Dry Run, a drama produced by Mark Ruffalo (who may be starring in it, as well)

[Cremildo]

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam in Killers of the Flower Moon

and

Taylor Sheridan is prepping his third film as a director; Chris Pratt expected to star

[Cremildo]

The Lynsey Addario biopic that was supposed to be directed by Spielberg and star Jennifer Lawrence will now be made by Ridley Scott and Scarlett Johansson

[Cremildo]

Um, we might get Gladiator 2 after all.

[flyonthewall2983]

Nothing less than the Nick Cave treatment, or I'm out.

[Dead or Deader]

Emma Stone to star in Cruella live-action film.

[Never Cursed]

Donald Glover, Letitia Wright, Rihanna, and Hiro Murai have shot a movie called Guava Island in secret. Billed as "a Childish Gambino film," it's set for a 2019 release. There's no official announcement of the movie or trailer for it yet, but someone at a Glover festival in New Zealand was kind enough to put a trailer shown there on Twitter.

[Cremildo]

Steve McQueen to make a documentary based on his wife's book Atlas of an Occupied City.

[Big Ben]

Scorsese is making a film about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. To be released by Netflix in 2019. A companion piece to No Direction Home no doubt but the big news is that Dylan agreed to be interviewed for the film!

[domino harvey]

Arnaud Desplechin's latest is Roubaix, une lumière, starring Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, and actor/director Roschdy Zem

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.

[mfunk9786]

Dan Trachtenberg (director of the excellent 10 Cloverfield Lane) to direct the long-stalled film adaptation of the video game series Uncharted

[Cremildo]

Charles Burnett To Direct Slavery-Escape Pic ‘Steal Away’ For Amazon.

[DarkImbecile]

Michaël R. Roskam to direct a movie about one of the worst humans on Earth