Genre Films Movie Updates

Emily Carmichael will write the script and direct the project.

20th Century Fox has closed a big deal for screen rights to the S. Craig Zahler novel Wraiths Of The Broken Land.

20th Century Fox has closed a deal to acquire the screen rights to the hugely popular fantasy card game from Hasbro.

Twentieth Century Fox is in negotiations to pick up Starlight, an upcoming comic from Wanted and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar.

20th Century Fox has set Carter Blanchard to script a film based on his pitch for an adaptation of the Mark Millar comic Kindergarten Heroes.

Fox has picked up the option to author Andy Weir’s unpublished book The Martian.

Writer-director Luke Greenfield (The Girl Next Door) has signed an exclusive network directing deal with ABC.

20th Century Fox is in final negotiations to pick up Rosa, a sci-fi project based on an animated short from Jesus Orellana.

New Line Cinema has acquired a new untitled heist film written by Peter Morgan (The Queen).

20th Century Fox used the holiday weekend to close a preemptive deal for David Guggenheim's action thriller spec Narco Sub.

Dwayne Johnson has become attached to star in Monster Hunter’s Survival Guide, a live action adventure film based on the comic book miniseries by John Paul Russ that was published by Zenescope Entertainment.

20th Century Fox, which tapped into Isaac Asimov’s futuristic robot science fiction for I, Robot, is now working on a live-action adaptation of Asimov’s The Caves of Steel.

20th Century Fox has acquired the Royden Lepp graphic novel Rust: Visitor in the Field, and has set Aline Brosh McKenna to write the script.