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1.<\/a> Jason Segel and Emily Blunt may join Jack Black in his \u201creimagined\u201d version of Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/a><\/i>. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> The newest version of The Thing from Another World<\/a><\/i> (1951) \u2014 previously remade by John Carpenter as The Thing<\/i> (1982) \u2014 will still be written by Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/i> producer Ronald D. Moore, who has been attached to the project for at least the past two years<\/a>. 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\u2019s film, but it will also \u201cborrow heavily\u201d from the original John W. Campbell Jr. short story \u2018Who Goes There\u2019. \u2014 Variety<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Adam Sandler may have \u201ca brief but key role\u201d in Seth Rogen\u2019s adaptation of The Green Hornet<\/a><\/i>. \u2014 Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Zack Snyder\u2019s son Eli has a cameo in Watchmen<\/a><\/i> 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<\/a><\/i> (2006); the adult version of that<\/i> character was played by Gerard Butler. \u2014 MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Columbia Pictures is looking for someone to write the sequel<\/a> to Ghost Rider<\/a><\/i> (2007). \u2014 Bloody-Disgusting.com<\/a><\/p>\n

6.<\/a> John Stevenson, the co-director of Kung Fu Panda<\/a><\/i>, has signed on to direct the newest live-action version of Masters of the Universe<\/i>. The new film, written by Justin Marks, \u201cskews 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.\u201d The Mattel franchise was previously turned into a feature film in 1987, starring Dolph Lundgren<\/a> as He-Man and current Oscar nominee Frank Langella<\/a> as Skeletor. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

7.<\/a> Sylvester Stallone is now talking about making a fifth Rambo<\/a><\/i> film. First, he just needs to figure out what country to set it in. \u2014 ComingSoon.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"