It often seems as if the Morning Deal Report would be just as accurate if I had a hatful of Hollywood names and a hatful of recycled ideas, and simply drew randomly from both of them. For instance, from one hat I might produce the name "Peter Berg," most recently director of Hancock, while the other hat offers up "Hercules," yet another character no one really cares about reviving. Yet here it is in Variety: "Berg will produce and will develop to direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars, a co-production of Spyglass Entertainment, Berg’s Film 44 and Radical Pictures. Spyglass and Universal will co-finance the film. Ryan Condal will write the script, based on a five-issue comicbook series by Steve Moore that debuted in May through Radical Publishing." Of course. It goes without saying that I have a third hat, and every slip of paper in it reads "based on a comic book."
Which brings us to Capeshooters, another comic book adaptation forthcoming from Warner Bros. According to Variety, it's about "two slackers become paparazzi who specialize in shooting covert videos of superheroes find themselves on the run after they stumble onto evidence that a revered superhero is actually a villain." Who would be perfect for this? Let me reach into the hat, and...ah, yes! X-Men and Superman Returns director Bryan Singer.
Finally, it must be about time to revive another horror franchise, so let me dig deep into this vintage fedora and...here it is, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. "has hired veteran scribe Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, the franchise that helped establish New Line into a movie player in the mid-1980s...The new project will keep the high school setting and delve deeper in the psychology of nightmares and Krueger himself. The plan is to have a dark tone. The company hopes to have the movie ready for the 25th anniversary of the original."
Sweet dreams, everyone.
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