Hollywood’s Pre-Strike Plans Leaked

With the huge strike fast approaching, Hollywood studios are hoping to push as many projects as they possibly can into production before the strike hits. A memo, which has been distributed around the major talent agencies, has been leaked online and lists all the movies that the studios are hoping to push into production.

A few of these movies are listed below, but remember many of the directors have not yet signed on to their next project so many on the list should be marked at tentative.

• Justin Lin will return for The Fast and the Furious 4
• Director Brad Silberling is attached to a big screen version of Land of the Lost.
• Drew Barrymore will direct her first feature, Whip It.
• Eli Roth’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell appears on the list despite Roth publicly stating that the movie won’t happen for at least another year.
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi also appears on the list
• Guy Ritchie to direct a Warner Bros. remake of The Dirty Dozen!?
• Robert Redford to direct Against All Enemies.
• George Miller is listed in parentheses for Justice League of America Movie, so his involvement on the project still seems tentative.
• Confirmation that Steve Pink (Accepted) will direct Fletch Won for the Weinstein Company.
• Directors Justin Chadwick and Wayne Kramer are listed as possibles to direct the Seventh Samurai from the Weinstein Company.
• John Whitesell is attached to a remake of the Bill Murray camp comedy Meatballs for Lionsgate.
• Matthew Vaughn’s Thor is listed.
• Wolfgang Petersen will direct Alien Uprising.
• David Dobkin will direct Monster Hunter.
• Disney is fast tracking Jungle Cruise and Prince of Persia into production without attached directors.
• Fox is fast tracking an A-Team movie

For the full list, click here.

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