1. Martin Campbell is in talks to direct Green Lantern; he previously directed the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and Casino Royale (2006), as well as both of the Antonio Banderas Zorro movies (1998-2005). — Variety
2. The top guys at Marvel are very pleased with Kenneth Branagh, following a meeting they had with him about his plans for directing Thor. — MTV Splash Page (x2), CHUD.com
3. Robert Downey Jr. says Mickey Rourke will not be playing Crimson Dynamo in Iron Man 2 — but he won’t say who Rourke will be playing. Meanwhile, Terrence Howard may have contradicted his earlier account of how he came to be replaced by Don Cheadle in the part of Jim Rhodes; in October, he told National Public Radio he was as surprised as anyone else when the studio picked Cheadle over him, but now, in Ebony magazine, he suggests Will Smith may have advised him to leave the franchise. — MTV Splash Page, WENN
4. Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey may lead the voice cast for Master Mind, a DreamWorks cartoon about “a brilliant superhero villain who loses his life’s purpose when he accidentally kills his good-guy nemesis.” Ben Stiller is one of the film’s producers. — Hollywood Reporter
5. Some scenes in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were shot in the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan; others were shot “in the valley area of Wadi Rum as well as the famously fertile city of Salt.” Petra is where the climactic scenes in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) were shot, and Wadi Rum was one of the main locations for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). — Variety
6. Michael Gambon has joined the cast of the post-apocalyptic tale The Book of Eli as “one half of a strangle (sic) couple that holds onto old traditions”. — Hollywood Reporter
7. Thora Birch, Taylor Momsen and Jacob Zachar are in talks to star in a big-screen version of Cavegirl (2002-2003), a BBC series “about teenage problems in a stone age world.” — Hollywood Reporter
8. Anne Hathaway may have a part in Stephen Chow’s as-yet-unwritten superhero parody. — china.org.cn
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