Remakes

Zoe Saldana to play lead role and produce in NBC miniseries Rosemary’s Baby

Zoe Saldana has contracted to star in NBC’s four-hour miniseries Rosemary’s Baby, Variety reports. Saldana will play Rosemary, the iconic young wife and soon-to-be mother who moves into a Paris apartment with her husband, unaware of its dark and storied past. After becoming pregnant, Rosemary becomes increasingly suspicious that both her husband and their strange ….

Nick Nolte joins cast of Fox murder-mystery limited series

Nick Nolte has joined the cast of Fox’s upcoming limited series Gracepoint, a U.S. remake of the lauded ITV murder-mystery Broadchurch, Variety reports. Nolte will play a stubborn local business owner in a seaside town where a boy is murdered. He joins a cast that includes David Tennant, Jacki Weaver, Michael Pena, Anna Gunn, Kevin ….

Cult spy tv series It Takes a Thief being adapted to film

Variety reports that Universal Pictures is prepping a feature film adaptation of the 1970’s cult espionage television series It Takes a Thief, tapping Greg Russo to write the screenplay. It Takes a Thief was created by Roland Kibbee and starred Robert Wagner. The story centers on a young CIA analyst who recruits a brilliant thief, ….

Director of 2 Guns teaming up with Universal & Identity Thief producer to remake Filipino crime thriller On the Job

Variety reports that Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to crime thriller On the Job, based on the same real-life events as Erik Matti’s Filipino crime thriller that premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight earlier this year. According to the report, Baltasar Kormakur – who directed Denzel Washington & Mark Walhberg’s 2 Guns – is attached ….

Weinstein Co. teams with Celestial to remake Shaw Bros. classic martial arts films

The Weinstein Co. has signed a two-picture deal with Celestial Pictures to remake a pair of classic martial arts action films from the Golden Era of Hong Kong cinema. The companies will produce English-language versions of Come Drink With Me and Avenging Eagle. John Fusco, who wrote the Marco Polo TV series and co-wrote the ….

Live-action Akira film gets a “new” director

Variety reports that filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra is in talks with Warner Bros. to return to the Akira directors chair for the studio. Collet-Serra left in early 2012 after production on the project stalled. According to the report, in early 2012, the studio shut down pre-production for script rewrites and budgetary concerns. At the time, Collet-Serra ….