Brendan Fraser has signed on to star opposite Harrison Ford in The Untitled Crowley Project for CBS Films, a division of the CBS. The project, with an anticipated start date in early April, will be the first film to go into production for CBS Films.
Fraser plays a father who recruits the help of a reluctant maverick scientist (Ford), forging an unlikely friendship in a race against time to solve the scientific mystery that could save his family. The film is inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who moved mountains to build a company that could rescue his children only to face the impossible choice of putting family first or the work that might spare them. Ford is also Executive Producer on the project. Tom Vaughan (Starter for 10, What Happens in Vegas) is set to direct.
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Nick Tosches novel, “In the Hand of Dante,” screen rights have been acquired by Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihi, which is to be developed as a possible star vehicle for Depp.
The novel, published in 2002, concentrates on Dante’s masterwork “The Divine Comedy” as it parallels storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy as he works to complete the work, and a contemporary storyline involving Tosches. Toches, played by Depp, is asked to authenticate what might be Dante’s original manuscript.
Needless to say, Johnny Depp’s workload is full. He definitely has job security. To list a few of his projects: Alice and Wonderland as the Mad Hatter, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Long Ranger, Voice-over Rango, Dark Shadows and Inventions of Hugo Cabret.
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One of my favorite directors, Peter Weir, is set to direct The Way Back. Weir also wrote the script which is a fact-based story of the escape of soldiers from a Siberian gulag in 1940.
The film goes into production in March in Bulgaria.
Variety reported that Weir used several sources, most notably the Slavomir Rawicz book “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom.” Book is Rawicz’s account of being captured by the Red Army in 1939 and his journey to freedom with other inmates. The group crossed the Siberian arctic, the Gobi desert and the Himalayas, finally settling in Tibet and India.
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Cheech Marin nabbed a directing and starring gig with the drama Angel of Oxnard.
The story focuses on Marin’s character Angel Mejas, the voice of Oxnard’s version of the home shopping network.
Mejas ends up in the middle of a huge commotion when his mug ends up on a tortilla.
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