4:45AM Seth | Noted shlockteur Stephen Sommers will write and direct Warner Bros.’s splashy
Tarzan remake, set to push the flimsy-loincloth envelope further than any version to come before. [
Variety]
Ravenous Spanish pantry-pirate Gwyneth Paltrow has hopped aboard a space skiff and escaped the CAA Death Star, having signed on with UTA on Tuesday afternoon. The direct implications this has upon your day-to-day lives should be negligible. [
Variety] Ted Danson has been cast in HBO comedy pilot
Bored to Death, playing the “pompous but articulate magazine editor” mentor to Jason Schwartzman’s “struggling Brooklyn writer with a drinking problem.” [
THR]
The Wonder Years writer-producer Bob Brush has been given a very strings-attached pilot order of
Lost in the ’80s, pitched as what happens when “
Fast Times at Ridgemont High meets
The Ice Storm,” then sleeps with
The Ice Storm’s best friend
Square Pegs, accidentally getting her pregnant and producing a son named
Ordinary People. [
THR] Surprise! SAG and the AMPTP are fighting. The latest: SAG sent a 12-page letter to members outlining their problems with the producers’ final offer, which they characterize as “one-sided and filled with misrepresentations.” [
THR]
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