Steven Knight Movie Updates

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal are in talks to star in Studiocanal’s Rio, sources tell Variety.

Jason Clarke is in negotiations to join Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in IM Global’s Serenity.

Sony Pictures is eyeing director Fede Alvarez for one of the studio’s major franchises.

Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in Woman Walks Ahead with Susanna White (Generation Kill) directing.

Steven Knight, the screenwriter whose credits range from Eastern Promises to the current Tom Hardy drama Locke, has closed a deal to pen the sequel to World War Z for Paramount and Skydance.

DreamWorks is setting Lasse Hallstrom to direct The Hundred-Foot Journey, an adaptation of the Richard C. Morais novel.

Bradley Cooper and Omar Sy are in discussions to topline in The Weinstein Company's culinary comedy Chef.

IM Global has come on board to finance the action title starring Patrick Wilson.

Paramount is looking to adapt Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and has tapped Veena Sud of AMC's "The Killing" to pen the script, with Montecito Pictures producing.

IM Global will shop the $20 million project to buyers at the American Film Market.