Per the Hollywood Reporter, the U.K. Film Council is developing a feature adaptation of Peter Pan in Scarlet, the officially sanctioned sequel to the J.M. Barrie classic.... Willem Dafoe is a Nazi officer whose life is saved by Jewish circus clown Jeff Goldblum in the World War II Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected.... Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub are developing a new revisiting of the Tarzan tale. Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct.... Miramax is bringing the Pulitzer-winning Broadway drama Doubt to the big screen.... Per Variety, Julia Ormond is Lindsay Lohan's mother in I Know Who Killed Me.... Dimension Films is turning the comic book Madman into a live-action feature, to be penned by creator Michael Allred and director George Huang (Swimming with Sharks).
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On Saturday at 8 pm/ET, Hallmark Channel sends onetime Starship Trooper Casper Van Dien to contend with The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, as his maverick archeaologist races a ruthless rival (The Mummy's Jonathan Hyde) to find the boy king's untold riches. Sound a bit familiar? TVGuide.com spoke with Van Dien about his bid to prove he's Harrison Ford-tough, his famous lineage and the secrets to a successful royal romance.
TVGuide.com: So you're doing a
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Scoop! The Young and the Restless redhead Michelle Stafford (Phyllis) recently shot a Fox pilot in Memphis. It's an hourlong drama whose working title is Southern Comfort.
"You have the exclusive on that, my friend!" Stafford tells TVGuide.com. "The leading lady is Madeleine Stowe. She plays Charlotte, a Southern belle whose husband is in the Mafia, unbeknownst to her. He gets caught and she basically becomes a Mafia princess. I play her perky, happy best friend, Susan, and I have a twangy accent!"
Other celebs appearing in the pilot include Eric Roberts and Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel, who briefly starred in WB's Tarzan.
Stafford left Y&R once before, back in 1997, to star in Aaron Spelling's superfun but short-lived nighttime sudser Pacific Palisades. But the Daytime Emmy winner's fans need not fret just yet about the
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New York's MTA must not be striking after all. Old Friend David Schwimmer will make his Broadway debut in '06 in a revival of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. And this summer, American Idol 2 wannabe Josh Strickland has been cast in the lead in Phil Collins' Broadway-bound Tarzan. Good for him — he'll get to sing schmaltzy ballads after all.
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