* Last month it was reported that Tom Hooper, fresh off his big Best Director award for The King's Speech
, was mulling over a remake of Les Miserables
, based on the Broadway adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel. Now Variety confirms Hooper's involvement, with the likelihood that this would be a musical, and a complete 180 from the 1998 version(starring Geoffrey Rush!) which was totally without the well-known songs. * The last time we got to see John Travolta and Nic Cage paired up on screen it was in the wild body switching gun fu flick, Face/Off
. Directed by John Woo, it's a film so far out that it's hard not to respect it. Vulture reports that the actors could possibly be teaming up on two potential flicks. The first is Shrapnel, directed by John McTiernan(Predator
), who apparently has managed to evade prison(long story). That film is about “a former Bosnian soldier who seeks vengeance against the American who badly wounded him by disguising a deadly war game as a friendly backwoods hunting trip." The other is Sea Trial, directed by Raymond De Felitta(City Island
, great film), and is about a couple who go away on a cruise only to discover things are not what they seem. * Lily Collins(she'll always just be Phil Collins' daughter to me) has been offered the lead female role in Odd Thomas
, based on Dean Koontz's mystery novel about a short order cook with a unique connection to the dead. Anton Yelchin(Star Trek
) is already locked in as Thomas, while Collins would play his best friend and soulmate, Stormy Llewellyn. Stephen Sommers(GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
) is directing. Collins recently had her biggest role to date in The Blind Side
, and has been rumored for an adaptation of The Mortal Instruments
novels.
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