Working Title Films Movie Updates

Chris Hemsworth will get behind the wheel to star in the role of British Formula One driver James Hunt in Rush, the Peter Morgan-scripted drama that shapes up as the next directing effort for Ron Howard.

Working Title Films has optioned the feature film rights to Charlotte Street, the debut novel by Danny Wallace, whose non-fiction book Yes Man was the basis for the 2008 Jim Carrey comedy.

Working Title Films and Kris Thykier's Peapie Films have acquired film rights to Andy Mulligan's crossover novel Trash for Richard Curtis to adapt and Stephen Daldry to direct.

Aaron Johnson and Jude Law are in talks to join Keira Knightley in Working Title's "Anna Karenina," which Joe Wright will direct. Tom Stoppard adapted the script with Working Title's Tim Bevan producing.

London-based Working Title has optioned The History Keepers, a new children’s novel due to be published by Random House Children’s Books in the UK this fall. It’s being pitched as Harry Potter meets Doctor Who.

Legendary wizard Merlin is being conjured up for the big screen. Working Title is developing a take on the magician, having picked up a pitch from author-screenwriter Jay Basu that brings Merlin into a contemporary setting.

Working Title Films has landed screen rights to "The Snowman," the Jo Nesbo novel that is the latest in a bestselling detective series that has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. The book is currently at the top of the UK bestseller lists and will be published by Knopf in the US next spring.

Universal and production company Working Title plan on bringing "The Cup of Tears" to life as a feature-length film.

20th Century Fox has acquired screen rights to Incognito, a graphic novel series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips. Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, will write the screenplay. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment will produce with Circle of Confusion’s Da ...

Universal Pictures is bringing back bumbling British spy Johnny English for a follow-up assignment. Studio and U.K.-based shingle Working Title have quickly assembled a sequel to the 2003 comedy starring Rowan Atkinson and are eyeing an August start date.

"I'm With Cancer" scribe Will Reiser is in talks to write "Young@Heart," Working Title's narrative remake of Fox Searchlight's singing-senior documentary.