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DreamWorks is moving forward with the big screen adaptation of EA’s Need For Speed, with Scott Waugh [Act of Valor] in talks to helm. Ironically Waugh has already been reported to helm a different project with an identical premise labeled High Speed, which is about..

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(Source: slashfilm.com)

Matthew McConaughey + Minka Kelly [The Roommate] will be playing as husband and wife in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. The plot centers around a White House butler, Eugene Allen [Forest Whitaker], who served eight American Presidents over the course of three decades. McConaughey is in as John F Kennedy, and Kelly plays Jackie Kennedy. The rest of the cast includes Oprah Winfrey as Allen’s wife, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan, and Cuba Gooding Jr, David Oyelowo, Lenny Kravitz +Terrence Howard. The project is being billed as a father son story with a civil rights backdrop by the helmer, with production start date on July 16th.

(Source: blogs.indiewire.com)

Ethan Hawke is in talk to join Sony Pictures’ PREDESTINATION as a temporal government agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to stop future killers. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must recruit his younger self while pursuing the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. Think TIME COP meets MINORITY REPORT. Penned by the Spierig Brothers [DAYBREAKERS]..

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(Source: thewrap.com)

Saoirse Ronan [Hanna] is in talks for the leading role in Testament of Youth, an adaptation of Vera Brittain’s memoir. Scribe Juliette Towhidi has signed on to adapt, with David Heyman [Harry Potter] on board to produce. The story centers around Brittain’s life, including her experiences working as a V.A.D. nurse during World War I +her subsequent years as a pacifist.

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(Source: thefilmstage.com)

20th Century Fox has acquired the rights to WOOL by Hugh Howey..

a high-concept novel set in a stark future; the air outside is no longer breathable, so the last community on Earth lives underground in an enormous silo. Survival is everything, and some will do anything to ensure it.

Ridley Scott +scribe Steven Zaillian are set to spearhead development of the project, via their Scott Free +Film Rites production houses..

(Source: deadline.com)