New Films in Production, v.2

[domino harvey]

Bob Odenkirk to star in action thriller from John Wick producers and screenwriter

[Ribs]

Not really in production so much as "almost released," but apparently Mel Brooks has sanctioned and is appearing in a CGI animated remake of Blazing Saddles?!?

[Big Ben]

The Blackcoat's Daughter director to creep the hell out of you again with A Head Full of Ghosts.

[Professor Wagstaff]

The book was pretty lousy. Here's hoping Perkins can add something interesting to it.

[domino harvey]

Biopic of the Frito Lay janitor who created Flamin' Hot Cheetoes coming from Fox Searchlight

[Dylan]

Sylvia Hoeks is attached to play Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel in upcoming biopic

[Ribs]

Kristen Stewart will play Jean Seberg in a conspiracy thriller

[Cremildo]

Alexander Payne will helm a Willie Gary biopic for Amazon Studios.

[Big Ben]

Tilda Swinton to Star in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s New Film ‘Memoria’.

[JakeB]

5 years after his brilliant film 'Das merkwürdige Kätzchen' premiered at Berlin Film Fest, Ramon Zürcher has a new project in the works!

When I saw Das merkwürdige Kätzchen at Leeds International Film Festival in 2013, I was so intrigued by it, I changed my schedule to see it a second time. I've kept tabs on the film maker ever since. Glad to finally hear some news from him.

[domino harvey]

Hazanavicius' next film will be a family fantasy starring Omar Sy and, who else, Berenice Bejo

[Cremildo]

Ulysses S. Grant biopic directed by Spielberg, starring DiCaprio

[flyonthewall2983]

It's trivial but Spielberg doing something for Lionsgate just does not compute.

[Ribs]

This is literally the third Presidential biopic DiCaprio's been attached to in the past five years, along with Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, and neither of those seem like they're going anywhere.

Also Jared Harris was good as Grant in Lincoln! Obviously he's no DiCaprio-level star but wouldn't have minded to see that performance given its own movie.

[Big Ben]

Zack Snyder is making a new adaptation of The Fountainhead.

I can't stop laughing. Is he going to do a slow motion sequence where wealthy people mock the poor? I'm in fucking awe of this.

[DarkImbecile]

Bong Joon-ho's new film Parasite has started filming, and will be his first Korean-language film since Mother

[Werewolf by Night]

I hope this means his Tilda Swinton period is over. I am a big fan of the work of both, just not together. I felt like they brought out the worst tendencies in each other.

[Never Cursed]

Director Corin Hardy and star Jason Momoa leave remake of The Crow five weeks before principal photography was set to begin

[Feego]

Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron will lead the voice cast of a new animated Addams Family movie. Honestly, I think it's a missed opportunity to not feature those two in full costume in a live-action version.

[domino harvey]

Armando Iannucci's next film will be a "modern" period adaptation of David Copperfield starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, and Peter Capaldi

[DarkImbecile]

Sam Mendes to co-write and direct (and Spielberg to produce) 1917, a $100 million World War I drama slated for a holiday 2019 release.

[cantinflas]

Legendary is making a live-action Gundam movie

[flyonthewall2983]

Neill Blomkamp directing next RoboCop movie

[domino harvey]

Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson have signed on for Zombieland 2... but why though

[Omensetter]

Relatedly, Jarmusch's next film concerns zombies.

I thought our culture was done with zombies/zombie apocalypse as a means of coping with, uh, actual apocalypse, but it seems enough of a sell for Jarmusch to snag funding. I imagine it will be as much a zombie film as Only Lovers Left Alive was a vampire film.