Director Osgood Perkins is making his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Monkey, produced by James Wan, deliberately comedic Back in March, we heard that production had wrapped on the Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, which is coming our way from the team of producer / genre regular James Wan and director Osgood Perkins, whose credits include The Blackcoat’s Daughter (a.k.a. February), I … Read more
The live-action adaptation of UbiSoft’s Watch Dogs gets an exciting update as the hacker-centric film enters production. It’s been a few months since word arrived about Talk to Me star Sophie Wilde leading the cast of Mathieu Turi’s (The Deep Dark, Meander, Hostile) Watch Dogs. The live-action adaptation of UbiSoft’s popular video game series is quietly coming together … Read more
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler teams with Mattson Tomlin for A Vicious Circle adaptation about time-travelling assassins. THR reports that Universal Pictures has snagged the rights to A Vicious Circle, a graphic novel series published by BOOM! Studios created by Mattson Tomlin and Lee Bermejo. Ryan Coogler is on board to produce A Vicious Circle … Read more
Will Smith has signed on to star in the film Resistor, an adaptation of the Daniel Suarez novel Influx, for Sony There were some who thought Will Smith had destroyed his career when he slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars stage back in 2022 – but with Bad Boys: Ride or Die passing the $100 … Read more
Pack your bags for Kamurochō because Sega‘s Yakuza series is coming to Prime Video, thanks to an upcoming live-action adaptation, Like a Dragon: Yakuza, on October 24, 2024! Based on the mega-popular Yakuza video game series, Like a Dragon: Yakuza follows Kazama Kiryu, the steadfast protagonist from the original games. Japanese actor Ryoma Takeuchi (Kamen … Read more
The feature-length adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Monkey will be distributed by Neon sometime in 2025. Buyers at the Cannes Market were going bananas for Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, with the bidding war eventually being won out by Neon. While no financial details were made available, Deadline reports that the studio is … Read more
Chris Pratt will star in an adaptation of Way of The Warrior Kid directed by McG. Per Deadline, Pratt will star in a forthcoming adaptation of Jocko Willink’s Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way novel, which was published in 2017. The movie, which is being written by Will … Read more
Sam Raimi and the writers of 10 Cloverfield Lane are developing a TV series adaptation of the Grave Weaver webtoon I’m the Grim Reaper Wattpad Webtoon Studios has hired 10 Cloverfield Lane screenwriters Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken to write a TV series adaptation of the webtoon I’m the Grim Reaper – and Deadline reports … Read more
Adapting open-world games can be a great challenge for film and TV creatives because they don’t have the handy-dandy narrative skeleton to convey what made a game so successful. How do you adapt a game with such little storytelling structure to a genre that requires it? Sometimes it baffles creators and the resulting adaptation feels … Read more
Scott Derrickson will direct a new adaptation of The Night of the Hunter, which he will co-write with C. Robert Cargill. Scott Derrickson is set to direct a new adaptation of Davis Grubb’s classic 1953 crime novel, The Night of the Hunter. The Night of the Hunter tells the twisted story of Harry Powell, a … Read more