MOVIES
Efforts to bring Vince Flynn's Consent to Kill to the big screen are moving right along. A script has been approved and the producers hope to hire a director by Christmas. (Hat tip to Crimespree Cinema)
Ray Winstone will star in Red Snow by Stuart St. Paul, playing an ex-SAS officer tracking down his missing daughter in a remote town in north Canada. The story is s based on a true story of a serial killer in Alaska whose killing spree hit the headlines in the 1980s.
More big names are in negotiations to join the all-star cast of Red, which tells the tale of a former black ops agent (Bruce Willis), now in retirement, who deals with younger, high-tech assassins who show up to kill him. Julian McMahon will play a Vice President at the center of a shadow conspiracy, Erngest Borgnine will play the keeper of the CIA’s darkest records, and Richard Dreyfuss will portray a man who has built a fortune out of lucrative government contracts. Others in the cast include Brian Cox, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John C. Reilly and Mary Louise Parker (can you imagine the budget for cast alone?).
TV
Hollywood has dipped yet again into the remake well, with plans to create a new Charlie's Angels series. ABC is ready to give the go-ahead for a pilot to be produced by Josh Friedman. Others involved in the project include original 1970s "Angels" producer Leonard Goldberg, and Drew Barrymore, who starred in and produced the 2000 film version.
Executive producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses (Ghost Whisperer) have three projects in development at ABC including Police Surgeon from writer lance Gentile, about a female cop in Chicago who also happens to be a medical surgeon.
The Hallmark Channel is planning an original TV movie starring Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice) and Craig Sheffer (One Tree Hill). Tentatively titled Murder Among Friends, it's about a group of college friends reuniting for a bridal shower that turns into a crime scene investigation when one of the friends is found dead, possibly murdered.
HBO and Lionsgate TV are teaming up to produce a series adaptation (written by Bret Easton Ellis) of Jason Star's novel The Follower.
WEB/RADIO
Dennis Lehane appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The CBS show site doesn't always post guest videos, but you can find it on YouTube.
Elizabeth Foxwell over at The Bunburyist noted that on BBC Radio 7 this week you can catch Ellis Peters' classic monk detective Brother Cadfael in a dramatization of Dead Man's Ransom; a rebroadcast of Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley talking about their book, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters; and Sara Paretsky's Bitter Medicine.
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