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This is, remember, the man who directed an adaptation of a video game series about dramatic lawyering.

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Deadline.com reports that Beth McCarthy - Miller, who once directed «Saturday Night Live,» is all set to direct her mommy - centric adaptation of Queen Bee Moms And King Pin Dads: Dealing With The Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make — or Break — Your Child's Futuwho once directed «Saturday Night Live,» is all set to direct her mommy - centric adaptation of Queen Bee Moms And King Pin Dads: Dealing With The Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make — or Break — Your Child's FutuWho Can Make — or Break — Your Child's Future.

This week, Deadline reports that Clooney is now attached to direct an adaptation of David Grann's New Yorker article, The Yankee Commandante, in which he explores the life of William Alexander Morgan, an American who helped Castro during the Cuban revolution, ultimately receiving the designation of Commandante only to be imprisoned under suspicion of spying and killed at the age of 32.

The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was ably but unmemorably directed by Mike Newell (who, in a truly odd coincidence, is scheduled in 2012 to become, with Cuarón, the second Potter director to release an adaptation of Great Expectations).

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Stephen Chbosky directs this adaptation of his own critically acclaimed novel which focuses on the shy and unpopular Charlie (Logan Lerman) who finds friends in Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller).

Guadagnino is still threatening to produce a remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria to be directed by David Gordon Green, and has three other projects on the go, including an adaptation of James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and The Reliable Wife (a period romantic - thriller variation on Mississippi Mermaid about a mail - order bride who turns out to be a scheming vixen)...

At the moment a direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

Darwyn Cooke's Eisner Award - winning mini-series, «DC: The New Frontier», gets the direct - to - DVD animated movie treatment, which will likely please fans of DC comics in general, even though its revisionist nature may irk some «Justice League» fans, while those who love the comic might feel like too much was left out to call this a truly successful adaptation (400 + densely presented comic book pages squeezed into a mere 75 minutes).

Michael Fassbender, one of Hollywood's A-list, heads the cast which includes such luminaries as Marion Cotillard (who co-starred with him in last year's Macbeth, directed equally by Kurzel), Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons, giving the piece a built - in pedigree unlike almost any other video game adaptation in history.

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

According to Deadline, director Lenny Abrahamson, who made the critically lauded Room, will direct an adaptation of Donald McRae's book A Man's World: The Double Life Of Emile Griffith, about a boxer who was secretly bisexual.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - December 25 ben Stiller directs and stars in this adaptation of James Thurber's classic short story about a dull man who spices up his life by imagining himself on fantastical journeys around the world.

The adaptation, directed by Francis Lawrence (who also made the underrated Constantine):

Chazelle, who was first linked to the project last fall, will direct the Josh Singer («Spotlight «-RRB-- penned adaptation of James Hansen's biography «First Man: A Life Of Neil A. Armstrong» which chronicles the incredible life of the first man on the moon.

Credit Yates, who directed last year's Half - Blood Prince — still the most satisfying adaptation of Rowling's novels — and will stay on for Part 2, due July 15, with honoring the book's ominous tone, making Deathly Hallows the bleakest Potter movie to date.

The second he won more recently for «Helium» in 2013, directed by Anders Walter, who will helm the forthcoming «I Kill Giants,» an adaptation of a graphic novel starring Zoe Saldana and Imogen Poots.

Cooper is also in an untitled project set about the super-competitive restaurant biz, from John Wells, who directed the film adaptation of August: Osage County.

Marc Forster has signed up to direct an adaptation of World War Z, a bestselling novel about flesh - eating zombies who destroy the word

After news reports surfaced last week that Sofia Coppola is in talks to direct a live - action adaptation of «The Little Mermaid,» media outlets and fans quickly began speculating that Emma Watson, who worked with Coppola on «The Bling Ring,» would be an ideal candidate for the title role.

After news reports surfaced last week that Sofia Coppola is in talks to direct a live - action adaptation of «The Little Mermaid,» media outlets and fans quickly began speculating that Emma Watson, who worked with Coppola on «The Bling Ring,» would be an...

Justin Kurzel directs this Shakespeare adaptation, following the sinister Scottish Lord who will do anything to become king.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have signed on to direct the adaptation of Andy Weir's novel Artemis, about a female smuggler living on the moon who gets herself tangled in a massive conspiracy.

The lion's share of the credit should rightfully go to Tom Tykwer, who not only directs in gorgeous fashion, he co-wrote the very ambitious screenplay adaptation and contributed to the gorgeous score, as he has done for all of his films.

«Ex Machina» is the directing debut of writer Alex Garland, who burst onto the cinematic scene in 2000 with Danny Boyle's adaptation of his novel «The Beach».

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.

... Because Joe Wright, who directed Ronan in «Atonement» and «Hanna», has emerged as the frontrunner to direct the film adaptation of the E.L James book, according to THR.

Jonathan Levine directs this adaptation of Isaac Marion's YA novel about a young zombie who falls in love, in theaters this February.

Robert Schwentke directs the Dark Horse Comics adaptation in which a recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him.

Set to be directed by Doug Liman, this long brewing project is an adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel that follows a soldier in an alien war who finds himself living his last day in battle over and over again after being caught in a time loop, becoming a better soldier along the way.

That includes TV showrunner Marti Noxon's cable adaptation of Gillian Flynn's 2006 novel «Sharp Objects» (2017, HBO), to be directed by Jean - Marc Vallee, in which Adams plays an emotionally fragile reporter who returns to her hometown to report on the murders of two teenage girls.

David Fincher directs this adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Gillian Flynn about a man whose wife disappears and who then becomes the centre of a media circus when suspicion falls on him.

Rob Marshall, who's known for directing the 2002 Oscar - winning film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, «Chicago,» also helmed the movie version of «Into the Woods.»

Red director Robert Schwentke is busy directing the adaptation of the Dark Horse comic, which finds Ryan Reynolds as a cop who is slain in the line of duty.

George Clooney is co-writing, directing and starring in an adaptation of Robert M. Edsel's non-fiction WWII book The Monuments Men, which reunites the Oscar - nominated Hollywood power - player / humanitarian with a number of old friends and familiar faces — including Matt Damon, who is in talks to reunite with Clooney after appearing alongside him in the Ocean's Eleven trilogy and Syriana.

The adaptation is being directed by Rupert Sanders, who last helmed «Snow White and the Huntsman.»

Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...

Now The Guardian reports, in an item with a fantastic headline («Schrader to direct death camp clown tale» — sounds like a great name for a Northwest band) that Paul Schrader will direct Jeff Goldblum in an adaptation of Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk's novel «Adam Resurrected,» about a clown who entertains Jews on their way to the gas chambers.

Producer Matthew Vaughn's directing debut is a briskly paced, stylish and bracingly bitter adaptation of J.J. Connolly's novel about a sleek London cocaine dealer who doesn't understand his business as well as he thinks.

In terms of plot this shares some similarities with Nicolas Winding Refn's aforementioned film; it's a literary adaptation, it's about one man's crusade to rescue someone in need and they're both directed by Europeans who have entered into the American market.

«Tamara Drewe» (Sony), directed by Stephen Frears, has a strange and wonderful pedigree: an adaptation of the graphic novel (by Posy Simmonds) inspired by Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» and whipped up with a light sex comedy froth by screenwriter Moira Buffini and the cast (headed by the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous heroine with identity issues and Roger Allam as the philandering author who wants to bed her).

Stephen Frears directs and Christopher Hampton scripts Cheri (Miramax), a deft adaptation of two Colette novels of love and life in La Belle Epoque Paris (when high society prostitutes were veritable celebrities), but it's Michael Pfeiffer who brings the film alive as the aging courtesan Lea who makes a business of romance.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 7, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Ides of March (R for pervasive profanity) George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play «Farragut North,» a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail.

Based on the novel Winged Creatures by Roy Freirich, Fragments was directed by Australia's Rowan Woods, who managed to assemble a stellar ensemble to execute his vision for the screen adaptation.

Ullmnan, who both wrote and directed the adaptation, re-locates the setting from Sweden to the Irish countryside.

Directing from a solidly plotted script by Brian Helgeland, who isn't slavish to the original film (the film credits John Godey's novel but not the 1976 screenplay adaptation), he delivers a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high - concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences.

The movie, an adaptation of the Disney theme park ride, is being directed by Jaume Collet - Serra (The Shallows) and sees Johnson as a riverboat captain cursed with immortality who takes Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) down river on her quest to search for the Tree of Life.

The big question mark is director Goold, who is making his debut here after directing a couple of British Shakespeare adaptations for television.

Though not filmed as a direct comic book adaptation, «Hardware» became a comic book movie thanks to a unique lawsuit that saw director Richard Stanley taken to court by comic book creators Steve MacManus and Kevin O'Neill, who suggested the film was based off a story they did in «Judge Dredd Annual» 1981, titled «SHOK!