'Chronicle 2' Gains a Writer; Renny Harlin Directing 'Fallen Cross'; Sheldon Turner Rewriting 'Splinter Cell'

* 20th Century Fox is moving ahead with Chronicle 2, despite Josh Trank moving on to Fantastic Four and screenwriter Max Landis' script ideas being tossed in the garbage. They've hired Jack Stanley to start work on a script, but a director still needs to be found. Stanley is a relative newcomer whose script for a female assassin/high school reunion flick titled Sweetheart ended up on the Black List. This is a small first step to seeing this sequel happen, assuming anybody still wants it to?  [Deadline]

* Renny Harlin, who is probably still smarting from how awful The Legend of Hercules performed a few weeks ago, has signed on to his next project. He'll direct Fallen Cross, which "centers on Timothy Cole, a reformed ex-mafia enforcer who is in a desperate struggle to protect his family from the crime syndicate he once served, the Chicago Cross. But first he must find a way to escape the confines of prison and return to his ruthless killer ways to cut down the Cross before they can get to his children." At some point Harlin has to recapture his old 1980s glory, right? RIGHT? [Deadline]

* Doug Liman's Splinter Cell movie with Tom Hardy as badass Black Ops dude Sam Fisher just found a new writer in Shelton Turner. It's a reunion of sorts because Turner also penned Everest, the mountain climbing-flick Liman and Hardy are a part of, but it was shelved due to the presence of another Everest movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, and Jason Clarke. Turner will rewrite the script drafted by Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle), with plans for Splinter Cell to shoot this August.

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'Chronicle 2' Happening but Without Max Landis or Josh Trank

Chronicle was more than just a surprise hit when it came out last year, it was a shot in the arm to the comic book movie genre and launched the careers of director Josh Trank, writer Max Landis, and star Dane DeHaan. Unsurprisingly, Fox ordered up a sequel pretty quickly, but as everybody moved on to other projects it seemed like Chronicle 2 took a backseat. Last we'd heard, Fox wasn't really a fan of Landis' screenplay, and wanted to go in a different direction. Now the always-candid Landis has taken to Twitter and revealed he's been off the project for some time, and that Trank was never fully on board...

" I've been off Chronicle 2 for months now. Fox had a different direction they wanted to take the series, Josh was never attached."

"Chronicle 2 is still probably happening, just not with my involvement as of now. It's a bummer, but there are no real hard feelings."

Landis is likely right that Fox will push ahead, but this has to take a lot of steam out of the project, which was successful largely because of the talent behind the camera. Landis has plenty to do, though, as he has a Frankenstein film with Daniel Radcliffe on the way, plus his directorial debut, Me Him Her.








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