Writer of such films as Constantine and Race to Witch Mountain, Mark Bomback has been hired to adapt the Dark Horse comic The Umbrella Academy for Universal Pictures.
Created by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, the Eisner award-winning 2007 mini-series follows a group of disbanded superheroes who reunite after the death of their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an alien disguised as a wealthy entrepreneur.
The alien had collected the members of the group shortly after their birth and trained them to save the world. They carry on his plan after he dies.
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Tony Scott has boarded the Fox suspense thriller Unstoppable, with full intention of making this the next film he 
directs.
That means Unstoppable is on the fast track to production. Scott is laboring with screenwriter Mark Bomback to get the movie in form to be filmed later this year.
The story is a familiar one, but Scott will drive it to success, about an unmanned runaway train that is carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. An engineer and his conductor find themselves in a race against time.
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Mark Bomback (Race to Witch Mountain) will adapt Ben Macintyre’s WWII spy drama Agent Zigzag into a film for New Line and Tom Hank’s Playtone label.
It will tell the story of Edward Arnold Chapman, a career criminal who was trained by the Nazis to be a spy during WWII. On a mission to sabotage an airplane factory in England, he contacts the Brits and began a life as a double agent.
The film is being produced by Hanks himself and Gary Goetzman.
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