As untold numbers of comic book collectors, movie fans and press descend upon San Diego for this year’s Comic Con, prepping for assumed major announcements and reveals from the studios for next year’s slate, Hollywood has decided to flex its own breaking news muscles.
Today Fox presented a hat-trick of developments for some of the major projects on its upcoming slate. First, they announced that Chronicles helmer Josh Trank will be at the helm for their Fantastic Four re-boot. No cast or dates have been set, but Fox hopes to the have the film lensing in time to be released as their next major project after The Wolverine and X-Men: First Class sequels. Trank has been in high demand, with many potential films up for his choosing, but Fox believes they can lock him in for ‘Fantastic Four’ as his next official project, though that is yet to be decided with Sony’s adaptation of the video game series ‘Shadow of the Colussus’, also on his plate. Trank is also developing a ‘Venom’ spin-off from the ‘Spider-Man’ series, amongst numerous other in-development projects. It should also be noted that The Hollywood Reporter has just annoucned that Jeremy Slater, an up and coming writer, will be penning the script for Trank.
Continuing the theme of low budget indie action helmers taking up the reins on big budget projects, Simon Kinberg of Genre Films and Stephen Christy and P.J. Bickett of Archaia Entertainment are producing a family friendly alien story adapted by Aline Brosh McKenna from the Royden Lepp novel Rust, about a problematic rural family whose lives are turned upside down by a mysterious robot. Alien invasion film Attack the Block’s director Joe Cornish is set to direct Rust, with the film being fast tracked now that Cornish is attached to the project.
Finally, coupled with the announcement that rookie screenwriter David James Kelly has taken over writing duties for the Daredevil reboot, originally announced director David Slade of’30 Days of Night and Twilight success has dropped out of the project due to prior commitments with NBC’s Hannibal series. Fox cannot wait on Slade, as the rights to Daredevil will revert back to Disney/Marvel unless the film begins shooting soon. New directors are currently being sought for the priority film.
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