The Downslope, Midnight Sun, Imagine Agents, and other films have made recent film casting, screenwriting, and director news. These films come from movie studios primarily based in the United States. The castings, screenwriters, and directors are subject to change.
Chasing Phil: The World’s Greatest Con Man, Two Undercover FBI Agents, And Their Amazing Around The World Adventure
Warner Bros. has preemptively acquired author David Howard’s book proposal “Chasing Phil: The World’s Greatest Con Man, Two Undercover FBI Agents, And Their Amazing Around The World Adventure” for Robert Downey Jr. to produce and potentially star
The book proposal details the FBI’s first foray into white collar crime-fighting and its use of agents as long-term, undercover operatives. The story follows two young FBI agents as they infiltrate the world of Phil Kitzer, the charismatic mastermind behind dozens of multi-million dollar schemes and his international network of associates known as The Fraternity.
The role of Phil Kitzer will be tailored for Downey, who typically plays the charismatic hero in big studio movies.
The Downslope
Stanley Kubrick‘s original screenplay “The Downslope,” a sweeping, historical action-drama he wrote in 1956, is being developed as a feature trilogy with Marc Forster (“World War Z”) attached to produce as well as direct the first film in the series
The story chronicles a bitter, strategic series of Civil War battles in the Shenandoah Valley between Union General George Armstrong Custer and Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby, known as the Gray Ghost for his stealth and elusiveness. His cavalrymen, known as Mosby’s Rangers, continually outsmarted the much larger enemy forces in a sequence of raids, which enraged Custer and eventually created a fierce cycle of revenge between the two men.
The succeeding stories will expand upon Kubrick’s original story and journey west, as post-war Americans settled the new frontier, delivering on the country’s unbending ambitions and dreams of Manifest Destiny.
Midnight Sun
Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger have been cast as the leads of Midnight Sun…Scott Speer (Step Up: Revolution) is set to direct the pic from a script by Eric Kirsten.
Based on a 2006 Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie (Thorne), a 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie (Schwarzenegger) and they embark on a summer romance.
Untitled Girl’s Trip Project
Screenwriters Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver are re-teaming with Malcolm D. Lee for the Untitled Girl’s Trip Project at Universal.
Come And Find Me
Annabelle Wallis has now boarded the film as the female lead, Claire. The story follows [Aaron Paul]’s character, David, who must track down his missing girlfriend after he realizes she’s not who she was pretending to be.
Miracles From Heaven
Queen Latifah has signed on to star opposite Jennifer Garner in Sony’s faith-based drama Miracles From Heaven.
The actress joins Garner, who already had boarded the project, in the Patricia Riggen-helmed film, which is based on Christy Beam’s book of the same name that recounts how her young daughter miraculously overcame an incurable, life-threatening digestive disorder.
Adapted by Randy Brown (Trouble with the Curve) the story centers on Beam (Garner) and a series of miracles that unfolded, leaving her family, her daughter’s doctors and the community baffled. Latifah will play a Boston waitress — something of an earthly angel — who befriends the sick girl and Beam during their visits to Boston Children’s Hospital. She steps up to provide comfort and a helping hand when they need it most, and her life ends up transformed by her interaction with the family.
Imagine Agents
Michael Keaton…is attached to star and produce Imagine Agents, an adaptation of a Boom! comic set up at Fox.
the story tackles the idea that the imaginary friends of children are actually very real and centers on an organization titled I.M.A.G.I.N.E., which handles things when these figments get out of control.
the comic tells of a jaded 20-year veteran agent who must mentor a young archivist, with a routine day becoming something much larger.
Unforgettable
Denise Di Novi…will make her directorial debut with Unforgettable, a female-centric thriller set at Warner Bros.
With a script written by Christina Hodson and David Leslie Johnson, the story sees a woman struggling to start a new life with a new husband and his daughter but finds herself tormented by the man’s manipulative and mentally unstable ex-wife.
The project was to have been directed by Amma Asante (Belle) as a starring vehicle for Kerry Washington. But when Washington committed to playing Anita Hill in HBO’s movie about the Clarence Thomas’ 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Asante moved on, leaving a void.
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