David Slade (Hard Candy, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) will direct Disney's Matched, based on the YA novel by Ally Condie. The Hollywood Reporter noted that Michelle and Kieran Mulroney (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) "wrote the script for the project, which is still in development." Reached, the third book in Condie's trilogy (after Crossed), will be released in November by Dutton Juvenile.
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Robert Connolly (Balibo) will direct The Shipkiller, adapted from Justin Scott's novel, for Valhalla Entertainment and Australian film company Arenamedia, Deadline.com reported. Connolly called the source material "an extraordinary novel that was almost made in 1979 with Sean Connery and David Niven... Ever since seeing Phillip Noyce's terrific Dead Calm, I had wanted to find the perfect thriller at sea and this is surely it."
