The movie adaptation of Melissa Marr's YA novel Wicked Lovely "has conjured up a second wind," Deadline.com reported, noting that the project, originally set up at Universal by Wild West Picture Show Productions, "is now freed up and WWPSP has brought in indie production house Pukeko Pictures to produce and oversee special effects, and Weta Workshop for design and physical effects. They will set a director shortly and then CAA will shop the project."
The script was written by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas). WWPSP's Vince Vaughn, Valeri Vaughn and Peter Billingsley are producing with Pukeko's Martin Baynton and Adam Fratto and Richard Taylor is exec producing. Wicked Lovely (HarperCollins) was a New York Times bestseller.
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Chris Hemsworth "looks tired and disheveled in the first photo Ron Howard posted from his latest film," In the Heart of the Sea, based on Nathaniel Philbrick's book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, the Wrap reported. The cast also includes Ben Whishaw, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Holland, Frank Dillane and Sam Keeley. In the Heart of the Sea will be released March 13, 2015.
