Scott Alexander Movie Updates

Glenn Ficarra and John Requa will direct the film about John McAfee, creator of the McAfee antivirus software.

Andrew Niccol ('The Truman Show,' 'Gattaca,' 'The Terminal') will write the screenplay for the big-screen adaptation.

Addams Family is heading for another incarnation, this time as an MGM animated movie.

Danny Huston is in negotiations to join the cast of Tim Burton's Big Eyes, the Weinstein Co. comedic drama based on the relationship between Walter and Margaret Keane.

Monopoly may have been dropped by Universal but the project is still a hot piece of real estate. Hasbro and Ridley Scott, who are producing the board game adaptation, are building up the property and have set Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to pen a script.

Fox 2000, the 20th Century Fox label behind the adventure franchise, is putting a follow-up project to the 2010 young-adult film in active development and could shoot it as early as this summer, according to a person who has been briefed on the project's status but was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The movie would b ...

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth is carving a niche for himself writing movies about kids in jeopardy. The "Red Dawn" and "Disturbia" co-writer has come aboard to write the screenplay for a live-action feature adaptation of the R.L. Stine book series "Goosebumps" for Columbia. Neal Moritz is producing ...

Tim Burton has reunited with his Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski on a pair of projects. They will write The Addams Family, the stop-motion animated film that Burton and Chris Meledandri are producing for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. At the same time, Burton has come on to be a pr ...