Bad Robot Movie Updates

Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot have won the rights to adapt the blockbuster Japanese animated movie Your Name.

Julius Avery, who directed A24’s Son of a Gun, is set to direct Paramount and Bad Robot’s World War II pic Overlord.

Paramount Pictures has acquired the Sonia Purnell book A Woman Of No Importance.

Greg Grunberg’s upcoming graphic novel, Dream Jumper, is getting the movie treatment.

J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay will co-write Star Trek 3 along with Roberto Orci, who penned the previous two installments for Skydance and Paramount Pictures.

Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce has landed the assignment for Paramount's next Mission: Impossible installment.

Mike Nichols is in early talks to direct Paramount's adaptation of One Last Thing Before I Go, which is being produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot banner.