Here is a round up of bits and pieces of movie news.
- Channing Tatum (GI Joe) will co-produce and star in The Contortionist’s Handbook, an adaptation of the Craig Clevenger novel. Tatum will play a forger who moves smoothly from one identity to the next because of a strict code of conduct that keeps him from getting caught or having to deal with his own troubled past. That gets upended when he falls for a beautiful woman with her own dark secret – Deadline
- Blake Lively (Green Lantern) and Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers) are in the running to star in Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi film Gravity opposite Robert Downey Jr. The movie’s plot revolves around astronauts repairing the Hubble telescope who are hit with an avalanche of satellite junk. In a plot akin to “Cast Away,” the surviving astronaut must fight her way back to Earth, where she hopes to reunite with her daughter – Heat Vision
- Cillian Murphy (Inception) may be starring in I’m.mortal. This is Andrew Niccol’s sci-fi drama starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake. Murphy will play an officer from an organization known as Timekeepers and described as “precise as the time he keeps.” – Heat Vision
- If Stallone’s The Expendables does well at the box office we can expect a sequel with even more action stars. Producer Avi Lerner said “We all want to do it, we are already working on it, we will wait until Monday and see what the
- Gerard Butler is to star as the coach in Slide, a movie about a father with a dubious past brought in to coach his son’s football team – LA Times
- 20th Century Fox has picked up Max Landis’ Chronicle. The story is described as a docu-style account of three Portland teenagers who become exposed to a mysterious substance in the woods and develop incredible powers. Initially using their skills for fun, personal and family problems end up turning them against one another. – Dark Horizons
- Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough (The Runaways) is in talks for a role in George Miller’s upcoming fourth Mad Max: Fury Road.
- Scott Bakula says there will be a Quantum Leap movie. Bakula and Dean Stockwell will be in it somehow. Oh boy! – Blastr
- Ving Rhames will return for Mission Impossible 4 – Movie Web
- Reese Witherspoon will play singer Peggy Lee in an untitled biopic.
- The Star Wars Wookie Coat looks very Han Solo on Hoth. More here.
- Below is the rarely seen extended ending to the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Currently it is only available on the German DVD version. It shows April O’Neil (Judith Hoag) pitching the Turtles’ story to a comic-book publisher – Blastr
