Stuart Beattie Movie Updates

Akiva Goldsman has relocated his Weed Road banner to the Melrose Avenue lot.

Stuart Beattie, the high-profile screenwriter whose credits include Collateral and 30 Days of Night, has been tapped to write Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Universal’s adaptation of the YA fantasy by Laini Taylor.

Stuart Beattie has come aboard the Lakeshore Entertainment project I, Frankenstein as writer and director. The filmmakers are looking to a fall shoot.

Plans are being drafted for Stuart Beattie to return to write and direct the second and third installments of "Tomorrow, When the War Began," the Australian action movie that has proven to be a hit at the Oz box office.

"We got really close to making it with Len Wiseman. It was like a $150 million budget, and at that point the studio decided they wanted to do the more contained kind of Cloverfield version of the film,"