Paul W.S. Anderson Mulls Monster Hunter Movie

Resident Evil film series helmer Paul W.S. Anderson is reportedly hoping to turn another Capcom video game franchise, Monster Hunter, into a movie.

Punch Drunk Critics got the lowdown by translating a Japanese interview Anderson did while promoting his latest video game movie, Resident Evil: Retribution 3D. Capcom has trust in Anderson at this point given the commercial success of the Resident Evil movies, the most successful video game franchise yet.

Anderson he's actively planning the film adaptation now. While there are no details on his take for bringing the fantasy-action-horror game to cinematic life, it's probably a safe bet that his wife and Resident Evil leading lady Milla Jovovich will likely be involved with it.

Thanks to Dread Central for the heads-up!

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Robocop Director Struggling with Production

It sounds like production on director Jose Padilha's Robocop remake isn't going as well as previously hoped.

City of God helmer Fernando Meireilles, a close friend and colleague of Padilha's, says that the filmmaker is having a tough time with Hollywood making Robocop. While the story originated in an interview from Cinema Com Rapardura, the guys over at Bleeding Cool have translated the pertinent bullet points:

• 9 out of 10 of Padilha's ideas are being rejected.
• He's fighting, and it's making him bitter.
• The experience is described as "hell."
• But Mereilles believes the film will still be good.

Production seemed to be going well for Padilha until a few days ago when the film's big bad Hugh Laurie passed on the project before signing on the dotted line, leaving Padilha and company scrambling to find a new villain.

Clive Owen is said to be up for the role now, but nothing has yet to be confirmed.

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Harry Potter's Yates Nearing a Deal for Tarzan?

Back in June, it was reported that Harry Potter helmer David Yates and Nanny McPhee Returns' Susanna White were both in consideration to direct Warner Bros.' live-action Tarzan movie.

Now, according to Deadline, Yates has been chosen by the studio as their primary get. The filmmaker is said to be in serious negotiations for the jungle-dwelling epic. At this time, however, Warner Bros. has denied that Yates is set for the job. Meanwhile, Constantin Films is still moving forward with its own adaptation of the tree-swinging ape man -- a motion capture flick starring Kellen Lutz and Spencer Locke.

Earlier this year, Yates was rumored to also be attached to a Doctor Who feature film, but producer Steven Moffat, head writer on the BBC television series, recently put that notion to rest. This would open up the Potter director's schedule for Warners' Tarzan, should a deal go through.

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Director Talks Hawken, Need for Speed Movies

Act of Valor helmer Scott Waugh has not one but two video game movies on the table: Need for Speed and Hawken. And in a new interview, he's revealed some of his plans for the adaptations, including the notion of using the Unreal game engine to help make the latter film.

"One of the things I’ve been talking to the game developers about that I think is going to be so unique to [Hawken] is that I really want to use the [Unreal Engine 3] game engine in the movie," he tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I want the film to feel exactly like the game. So we’re going to definitely really cross-pollinate what they’re doing in the game for the film. For me, I’m pretty excited about that, because that world we’re creating in Hawken is going to be exactly like the game."

Waugh also thinks that the future of game-to-film adaptations can be found in that word that makes media conglomerates so happy: synergy. In the case of Hawken, for example, game publisher Meteor Entertainment and developer Adhesive Games have the movie, game, comics and a live-action web series in the works.

"Now it’s not, 'Here’s the movie. Here’s the game,'" says the director. "It’s almost become one. That’s the experience we want to create in the film, for people to really feel like, 'Holy smokes!' … that you’re in the game."

As for Need for Speed, Waugh says the film will be a "mesh" of all the games in that series, while focusing on a specific title (which he's not revealing yet).

"I personally have always wanted to do a car racing movie," he says. "I’m a motocross racer, myself. We still quote Bullitt and French Connection. Those movies were made in the '70s. We should be able to outdo that nowadays, and I just feel like, 'I want to be the guy that makes the next authentic racing film,' and that’s my goal. It’s so great to be part of that Need for Speed franchise, because I think they do a great job on authentic racing."

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G.I. Joe 2 Director to Helm He-Man Movie

Sony is moving forward with their plans to make a new live-action Masters of the Universe movie by tapping G.I. Joe: Retaliation helmer Jon M. Chu to direct it.

The Hollywood Reporter says Chu's reps confirmed the filmmaker is in talks to direct the second attempt at a He-Man movie. (The 1987 feature Masters of the Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren, was the first.) Alex Litvak and Mike Finch penned the script, entitled Grayskull, for Sony and production company Escape Artists.

You may recall that Chu's G.I. Joe sequel was pushed from its June release date to March 2013.

Chu has also worked with Justin Bieber on his concert documentary so let the rumors begin to fly that this obviously means Bieber and Dwayne Johnson, who plays Roadblock in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, will star in Masters of the Universe. Or maybe even Channing Tatum as Prince Adam.

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Bourne Director Does Time and Again

Summit has picked up the rights to adapt the novel Time and Again to the big screen, with The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith helmer Doug Liman set to direct and produce.

Variety has the report on the project. Written by Jack Finney, who is perhaps best known for his book The Body Snatchers (which has been adapted by Hollywood umpteen times), Time and Again is a 1970 illustrated novel about a modern man who seemingly travels back to 1882, where he falls in love.

Robert Redford tried adapting the tale for Universal back in the '90s, and it was also considered as a possible TV mini-series by Universal Television at one point, but nothing ever came of it. Perhaps Liman will be the man to finally get the job done.

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