IndieWire’s Eric Kohn reports that William Friedkin is working with producer Bobby Maresco (Million Dollar Baby) on a series based on his 2011 film Killer Joe. “While the Joe of the original story exclusively worked as a killer for hire, the series finds him working as the chief of detectives.” And in Houston, rather than Dallas. Says Friedkin: “It’s set among the millionaires and billionaires, who have their wives or business competitors killed.”
Terrence Malick will executive produce The Book of Vision, “an English-language fantasy/mystery directed by Italy’s Carlo Hintermann,” reports Variety’s Nick Vivarelli. Hintermann, making his feature debut, was a second-unit director on the Italian shoot of Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011) and “co-wrote a book on Malick and directed a documentary about working with him.” In The Book of Vision, a young doctor “discovers an 18th-century text about a Prussian doctor which hides a mystery.” The cast includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Lotte Verbeek (The Borgias), and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe).
As it happens, the editor of The Tree of Life, Daniel Rezende, is making his directorial debut with Bingo – The King of the Mornings, “a pulsating tragicomic take on the cost of fame in the Brazilian TV world of the ‘80s,” reports Variety’s John Hopewell. Loco Films will be taking the film, Brazil’s entry in the foreign language Oscars race, to next week’s American Film Market.
“Kirby Dick (The Invisible War) and Amy Ziering (The Hunting Ground) are teaming up for a new documentary that will explore Hollywood’s history of sexual assault allegations and cover-ups,” reports Zack Sharf for IndieWire.
Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 to Paris now has a release date, February 9. As the Playlist’s Kevin Jagernauth reminds us, it’ll “tell the true story of three American soldiers who thwarted a terrorist attack in 2015 by overcoming the terrorist before he could act. The whole thing takes place on a train from Brussels bound to Paris. Intriguingly, Eastwood has chosen the actual soldiers in the event—Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone—to play themselves in the movie, with Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer, and Ray Corasani rounding out the cast.”
“Riley Keough, riding high on critical acclaim for recent roles in The Girlfriend Experience and American Honey, will star in horror film The Lodge from the directors of the widely admired Austrian horror Goodnight Mommy,” Severin Fiala and Veronica Franz, reports Screen’s Jeremy Kay.
“Sony Pictures Classics has acquired most rights to Michael Mayer’s movie adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull, starring Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, and Elisabeth Moss.” Variety’s Dave McNary has more.
“Naomi Watts is set to take the lead in The Wolf Hour, a psychological thriller from up-and-coming writer and director Alistair Banks.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman: “Set during the 1977 New York blackout riots, the film will see the Oscar-nominated actress play June Leigh, a cultural icon and activist during the 60s who has since fallen from grace and is a shell of her former self, now facing her demons at the height of one of the darkest points in the city’s history.”
Issa Rae, star and co-creator of HBO’s Insecure, is working with Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award finalist The Turner House, on an untitled project about an African-American family dealing with events “in Los Angeles in the early and turbulent 1990s,” reports Deadline’s Dominic Patten.
“The big-screen adaptation of James Frey's best-seller A Million Little Pieces is being reassembled, this time as a team-up between husband-and-wife duo Aaron Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit and Tatiana Siegel note that they “previously collaborated on the film Nowhere Boy, which chronicled John Lennon's early years.”
Ann Hu (Shadow Magic) has begun shooting Confetti, “the story of a mother and daughter who suffer from the same learning disability,” starring Amy Irving (The Fury), Helen Slater (Supergirl), Zhu Zhu (Marco Polo), and newcomer Harmonie Zhu, reports Rachel Montpelier at Women and Hollywood.
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