The Hanna-Barbera adventure series Jonny Quest is being revived by Warner Bros. Pictures as a potential movie franchise.... Also per the Reporter, Joan Allen, Jason Statham, Ian McShane and Tyrese Gibson are all on board for Death Race, a remake of the Roger Corman classic. Statham will play "Frankenstein," while Allen, McShane and Gibson are the prison warden, a coach and sociopath Machine Gun Joe, respectively.... Thomas Haden Church is in final talks to play Eddie Murphy's workplace rival in NowhereLand.... Per Variety, Nicole Kidman will produce and star in a remake of Al Final del Espectro, a Colombian horror film about an agoraphobic who begins to see a ghost in her apartment.
read more
Question: I've heard that Paul W.S. Anderson and Tom Cruise were going to remake Death Race 2000. Is there any truth to that? It sounds like a great idea to me.Answer: Though I wouldn't go so far as to say it strikes me as a great idea, I can see a new version of Death Race 2000 (1975) being fun, and apparently Tom Cruise can, too, since he's developing a remake for himself with producing partner Paula Wagner. The original screenplay was by J.F. Lawton, but Paul W.S. Anderson (that's the
read more
