Hossein Amini Movie Updates

Oscar Isaac continues to build on an already busy slate as the Inside Llewyn Davis star is in negotiations to star in Two Faces of January opposite Viggo Mortensen.

Working Title's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is the eighth John le Carre novel to reach the bigscreen. Now the author's two sons, Stephen and Simon Cornwell, are bidding to increase that number through their own production company the Ink Factory.

Sony is the latest studio to jump into the black ops game, picking up Shadow Runner, an original thriller with Chris Hemsworth attached to star.

Bracing for its race against Relativity Media on rival Snow White films, Universal Pictures has hired Hossein Amini to do a rewrite of Snow White and the Huntsman, the Rupert Sanders-directed film that stars Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth. Evan Spiliotopoulos wrote the most recent draft.

Sensing a possible opening with Hugh Jackman because The Wolverine lost its director and a plan to shoot in Japan turned precarious, Universal Pictures has offered Jackman the huntsman role in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano and Rinko Kikuchi join the cast for the pic directed by Carl Rinsch. Story is inspired by the Japanese legend of the 47 Ronin, who seek vengeance against an overlord who banished them.

I'm told that Steve Zaillian is being brought aboard by Paramount to rewrite the new Jack Ryan film. Chris Pine will play Ryan in the Tom Clancy-created series, and Lost's Jack Bender is directing. Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing.