Nicholas Hoult and Emilia Clarke are Bonnie & Clyde in 'Go Down Together'

With the latest Bonnie & Clyde miniseries pulling in nearly 10M viewers with Holliday Grainger (who?) and Emile Hirsch as the infamous crime couple, it's no surprise their story is being brought back to the silver screen. About three years ago, Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) was brought on to pen an adaptation of Jeff Guinn's novel, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, with Neil Burger planning to make it his next feature. That never came about and Burger moved on to Divergent, with Michael Sucsy (The Vow) taking his place. Now the film is back on with two red-hot stars in Nicholas Hoult and Emilia Clarke.

Go Down Together takes a somewhat less romanticized look at Bonnie and Clyde's story, acknowledging their troubled upbringing in the Dallas slums and their flawed crime spree. For one, Guinn suggests that Clyde's first murder was of his cellmate who sexually abused him. He also claims that Bonnie was a prostitute before hooking up with Clyde. 

So at least this version will be different than the rest and have the growing star power of Hoult and Clarke, who are both attached to big franchises at the moment. He'll be seen next in X-men: Days of Future Past, while she already has Game of Thrones and will be part of next year's Terminator reboot.

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Natalie Portman Eyed for Cheerleading Thriller 'Dare Me'

After starring in three films in 2011, two of which were pretty terrible and the other featured an Asgardian thunder god, Natalie Portman has been keeping a very low profile. She's roaring back into action this year, though, with a pair of Terrence Malick films on the way, Thor: The Dark World coming up this fall, and the western Jane Got a Gun currently in production. Now she's adding one more project to her schedule, and all you need to know is that it's described as "Heathers meets Fight Club". Check please.

Portman is being sought for Dare Me, an adaptation of Megan Abbot's novel centered on the contentious world of high school cheerleading. The story follows Addy Hanlon, a senior co-leader of a cheer squad, who sees her authority threatened  by the arrival a new young coach. As Addy tries anything in her power to regain her position, a death forces her to re-examine her loyalties.

Abbott will be adapting the script herself, with Michael Sucsy (Grey Gardens) set to direct. Portman's role hasn't been made clear, although it's doubtful she'll be a cheerleader waving a pair of pom-poms around. [Deadline]

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