1. Jason Segel and Emily Blunt may join Jack Black in his “reimagined” version of Gulliver’s Travels. — Hollywood Reporter
2. The newest version of The Thing from Another World (1951) — previously remade by John Carpenter as The Thing (1982) — will still be written by Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore, who has been attached to the project for at least the past two years. But now the film has a director: Matthijs Van Heijningen, whose experience to date lies mostly in commercials. The new film will apparently be a prequel about the Norwegian camp referred to in Carpenter’s film, but it will also “borrow heavily” from the original John W. Campbell Jr. short story ‘Who Goes There’. — Variety
3. Adam Sandler may have “a brief but key role” in Seth Rogen’s adaptation of The Green Hornet. — Los Angeles Times
4. Zack Snyder’s son Eli has a cameo in Watchmen as the boy who grows up to become the masked vigilante Rorschach; the adult version is played by Jackie Earle Haley. Previously, Eli played the young Leonidas in 300 (2006); the adult version of that character was played by Gerard Butler. — MTV Splash Page
5. Columbia Pictures is looking for someone to write the sequel to Ghost Rider (2007). — Bloody-Disgusting.com
6. John Stevenson, the co-director of Kung Fu Panda, has signed on to direct the newest live-action version of Masters of the Universe. The new film, written by Justin Marks, “skews more toward gritty fantasy and reimagines Adam as a soldier who sets off to find his destiny, happening upon magical world called Eternia. There, a being called Skeletor has raised a technological army and is bent on eradicating all traces of magic.” The Mattel franchise was previously turned into a feature film in 1987, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and current Oscar nominee Frank Langella as Skeletor. — Hollywood Reporter
7. Sylvester Stallone is now talking about making a fifth Rambo film. First, he just needs to figure out what country to set it in. — ComingSoon.net
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