CHANNING TATUM TO DIRECT AND STAR IN 'FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK' YA ADAPTATION! 'THE PERISHED LAND' EPIC FANTASY SERIES FROM 'ROME' & 'GOT' PRODUCERS! 'WINE OF SUMMER' WITH ETHAN PECK, ELSA PATAKY

'FORIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK' 

TO BE CHANNING TATUM'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT 

Deadline reports today that Mike Vukadinovic has been set to write the adaptation of FORGIVE ME, LEONARD PEACOCK, a Matthew Quick's YA novel which revolves around  a high school student who plans to kill his best friend and then himself. It is supposed to become Channing Tatum's directorial debut! He would also play a brave teacher who tries to intervene!

'PERI- SHED LAND' 

NEW EPIC TV SERIES
And great TV news: ROME and GAME OF THRONES producers will unite in creating THE PERISHED LAND new epic fantasy TV series! The 12 episode series is set in the fictional land of Talanton, a world remarkable for its natural beauty, the fantasy world (Lord Of The Rings meets Avatar), a tribal land of vengeful and benign spirits, rituals, superstitions and the supernatural, which is experiencing its own World Wars, Cold War, collision of tyrannies, ideologies, crises of resources and religions. It will unfold as a Hero’s Quest into a multi stranded narrative

'THE WINE OF SUMMER' 

WITH ETHAN PECK, ELSA PATAKY AND MARCIA GAY HARDEN

And here's a movie that is actually out today in USA, although it was shot three years ago. Starring Ethan Peck (Gregory's grandson), Elsa Pataky (Chris Hemsworth's wife), Marcia Gay Harden, Sonia Braga THE WINE OF SUMMER follows a  frustrated actor who travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.

LEA SEYDOUX IS BELLADONNA IN CHANNING TATUM'S 'GAMBIT'! GABRIEL CHAVARRIA TO LEAD 'WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES'! HALEY BENNETT JOINS EMILY BLUNT, REBECCA FERGUSON IN 'GIRL ON THE TRAIN'

 GABRIEL CHAVARRIA TO LEAD

 WAR OF PLANET OF THE APES

Now, if you like them movie apes, you will like this piece of fresh info too: according to 'Deadline' WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the third movie in 20th Century Fox' sf franchise is going to cast young Gabriel Chavarria for the role of one of the two main human characters in the movie. The film has been scheduled for July 2017 cinematic release unleashing an all out war between humans and apes as it was announced at the end of DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. Matt Reeves is returning to the helm after the second movie in the franchise that he directed last year earned more than $700 million around the world. Andy Serkis will again play Caesar the ape leader.

 'THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN' 

HALEY BENNETT JOINS EMILY BLUNT, REBECCA FERGUSON
 Meanwhile, for all of you who liked the book, the big screen adaptation of Paula Hawkins' bestseller THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN has just cast Haley Bennett in the third lead female role next to Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson who will play Anna, while Blunt plays Rachel, a recent divorcee who spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day. One morning, she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds, involving the other two women. Bennett also stars in the remake of MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.

 LEA SEYDOUX TO JOIN

 CHANNING TATUM'S 'GAMBIT'

Speaking of Rebecca Ferguson, when she gave up on the possible gig in Channing Tatum's superhero spin-off GAMBIT after accepting the role in THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, she left an empty place which now might be filled by French star Lea Seydoux. Apparently director Rupert Wyatt has offered her the lead female role of Belladonna Boudreaux aka Bella, Gambit’s love since childhood, who eventually gained powers of her own and became head of the Assassins Guild while GAMBIT, aka Remy LeBeau, was head of the Thieves Guild! You will watch Seydoux in new SPECTRE James Bond movie too.