Dennis Lehane has signed on to write the screenplay for 20th Century Fox's adaptation of John D. MacDonald's 1964 mystery novel The Deep Blue Good-by. The film will reteam Lehane and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who also starred in the film version of Lehane's novel Shutter Island and is developing Lehane's short story "Running Out of Dog."
Deadline calls it a shocker, and that's an apt description of the news that Tom Cruise has exited as the star of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the remake of the classic TV series that Guy Ritchie is directing for Warner Bros. The official reason is that Cruise had a schedule conflict with the filming of Mission Impossible:5.
Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur, The World’s End) and Swedish actor Fares Fares (Zero Dark Thirty) have been added to the cast of director Daniel Espinosa's adaptation of the Soviet-era novel Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman were already on board.
Magnolia pictures picked up Erik Skjoldbaerg's thriller Pioneer at the recent Cannes film festival. The film stars Aksel Hennie (who also played the lead in the film Headhunters based on Jo Nesbo's novel) as a professional diver working for the oil companies in the 1980s who gets involved in a perilous deep-sea journey.
Universal is developing a remake of Timecop, the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme time travel action movie set in the near future where time travel is regulated by a police force.
TV
As Omnimystery News reminds us, the new seasons of Longmire and The Glades premiere tonight back to back on the A&E network, beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
The new King & Maxwell series based on David Baldacci's novels is set to premiere June 10 on TNT. The show was developed by Shane Brennan (NCIS: Los Angeles) with a cast that includes Jon Tenney (The Closer) and Rebecca Romijn (X-Men) as private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell.
FX Networks announced that the premiere of The Bridge will be Wednesday, July 10th. The show is based on the Scandinavian crime drama (but moved to the US/Mexico border) and follows two detectives, one from the United States (Diane Kruger) and one from Mexico (Demián Bichir), who must work together to hunt down a serial killer operating on both sides of the border. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News, which also has a trailer.)
Logan Marshall-Green has been signed to star in the Cinemax pilot Quarry, based on the novel by Max Allan Collins. It follows a Marine sniper who returns home from Vietnam to find that he's been shunned by people he cares about and is recruited into a network of contract killers and corruption along the Mississippi River.
Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, the miniseries Carlos) has ben tapped to direct the film Hubris, which is inspired by a true story and based on an article by Hillel Levin. It follows a crew of thieves who rob a pawn shop and discover it is a front for the most brutal crime boss in Chicago history.
Detective Olivia Benson fans can breathe easier: actress Mariska Hargitay says she is returning to Law & Order: SVU for Season 15.
CMT has picked up an additional 11 episodes of the reality series Dog And Beth: On The Hunt, starring bounty hunters "Dog" and Beth Chapman.
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