Per Variety, George Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov are snatching up screen rights to The Innocent Man, John Grisham's nonfiction account of Oklahoman Ron Williamson's 11-year stint on death row for a murder he did not commit.... Open Water helmer Chris Kentis and Laura Lau are penning an adaptation of In Harm's Way, in which an estimated 900 World War II servicemen, after abandoning the torpedoed U.S.S. Indianapolis, floated for five days in the shark-infested Philippine Sea.
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Here's some good — make that great — news for fin addicts who snickered at Deep Blue Sea and snored through Open Water: After spending years in development hell, Steve Alten's best-selling shark thriller, MEG.: A Novel of Deep Terror, at last is swimming toward the cineplex!
In fact, New Line is fast-tracking the project, with Twister director Jan de Bont on deck to call the shots, for a July 4, 2006 premiere.
Although casting has yet to begin on the megabucks feature — nicknamed "Jurassic Shark" because of the era from which the toothsome predator is held over — the author already has the utmost faith in the flick's real star. (That would be the shark. Hel-lo!) "Like in the novel, the Megalodon that will be used in the movie will be a ghostly albino, her lack of pigment reflecting her ancestors' existence in the depths of the Mariana Trench," he reveals to TVGuide.com. "She'll
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