William Monahan Movie Updates

Liam Neeson has attached himself to the spec Marlowe to play the iconic Raymond Chandler character Philip Marlowe.

Paramount Pictures is mobilizing a feature film about iconic daredevil Evel Knievel that will be written by William Monahan.

William Monahan is in advanced talks to write a big screen adaptation of new John le Carre spy novel A Delicate Truth.

Paramount has set Oscar-winning The Departed scribe William Monahan to rewrite American Desperado, the film that is being shaped as a star vehicle for Mark Wahlberg.

Charlize Theron‘s Denver & Delilah Films, CJ Entertainment, and Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures are joining to produce an adaptation by William Monahan of Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, the last in Park’s revenge trilogy.

Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan is sliding behind the camera to direct Mojave, Atlas Entertainment said Friday.

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are bringing in some Oscar-winning firepower to help shape the script for Sin City 2, the sequel to their 2005 hit graphic novel adaptation.

Paramount is going all-in on The Gambler, a remake of the 1974 James Caan addiction drama. The studio has set Martin Scorsese to direct and William Monahan to write. Irwin Winkler, who produced the original, will again act as producer of the new film.

William Monahan, the Oscar-winning The Departed scribe who made his directing debut on the upcoming London Boulevard, has found his next film. He'll write and direct Becket, a new adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play that was previously turned into a 1964 film that starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton.

Disney has set William Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, to adapt Oblivion, the graphic novel from Radical Publishing.

Tony Scott has directed a lot of commercial pictures in his prolific career -- action movies set amid fighter pilots, hostage movies set on trains, thrillers set in high-level government agencies. But he's never taken on the pinnacle of commercial pictures: a John Grisham thriller. That could change shortly, as the director i ...