Screenwriter Chris Terrio has landed a two-script deal at Warner Bros that will follow his reteaming with Argo producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov on a project with director Paul Greengrass, Deadline has confirmed. The Greengrass project with Clooney and Heslov is at Sony where the pair's production shingle Smoke House is based. Clooney is attached to star in the original tale that unfolds amid New York crime syndicates. Terrio's initial script for Warner Bros is expected to be next in line. In addition to his screenplay for Argo, Terrio's resume includes directing and co-writing Sony Pictures Classics Heights as well as scripting the upcoming Tell No One and A Murder Foretold.
Scott Free Productions and 20th Century Fox are moving forward in developing Hugh Howey's Wool series of post-apocalyptic e-novelettes with UK writer-director J Blakeson in early talks for the project, Deadline has confirmed. Fox and Scott Free acquired rights to the best-selling e-books earlier this year. Ridley Scott and Steve Zallian are producing. Blakeson wrote and directed The Disappearance of Alice Creed and co-wrote The Descent Part 2.
Hugh Jackman is in talks to join Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadline has confirmed. Jackman would reprise as Wolverine along with Stewart as Charles Xavier and McKellan as Magneto in 20th Century Fox's X-Men followup. James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult are also lined up for Days Of Future Past.
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