True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld is reportedly in talks to star in sci-fi drama Forgotten.
According to Deadline, the Paramount project is based on an upcoming book of the same name by Cat Patrick.
Forgotten centres on a teenage girl named London Lane (Steinfeld) whose memory is erased every night. However, she is able to remember future events.
Little Brown will release the book in June. Paramount has yet to announce a director for the film adaptation.
Steinfeld, 14, was nominated for an Academy Award this year for her performance as Mattie Ross in True Grit.
Vanessa Hudgens has revealed that she began comfort eating during the filming of her new movie Sucker Punch because it was mentally draining.
The 22-year-old, who plays Blondie in the fantasy film, explained that some of the drama scenes were "really intense".
She told Total Film: "Some of the scenes were really intense. I haven't done that much heavy drama before and some scenes were just so draining.
"We would all be a total disaster afterwards and cheat on our diets together and eat cake to comfort ourselves."
However, despite the role being tiring, the actress insisted that playing her character was "a lot of fun".
She added: "My character was a lot of fun. I really get to step up my game and be a total badass."
Warner Bros has denied that Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct 300 prequel Xerxes.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the studio dismissed reports of the helmer's involvement in the project as "an erroneous rumour".
Based on Frank Miller's upcoming Dark Horse miniseries, Xerxes tells the story of the Zoroastrian king of the Achaemenid Empire. The cinematic adaptation is said to be in development, but is yet to be greenlit.
It has been speculated that Zack Snyder may be unable to reprise his role as director for the prequel due to his Superman commitments.
The Xerxes comic will be published later this year. A potential release window for the film is yet to be announced.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the actress said that she feels confident the franchise has "one more story to tell" and hopes to take part in such a project in the future.
"I would go back. I think there's one more story to tell. I know there is," she explained.
"I'd definitely tell that [third] story, and I know [series creator] Michael [Patrick King] would do it right. But maybe not now. Maybe in five years, you know?"
She also expressed her disapproval over rumours that the next Sex And The City film would be a prequel to the television series.
"There are a lot of important and interesting stories that 21-year-olds can tell. I don't begrudge any 21-year-old the opportunity to tell their stories," she said.
"But I don't think we can pretend to go back. It's creating two histories. It's like, 'Oh I didn't know that about Carrie Bradshaw'."
However, Parker was adamant that it is important for her to pursue other projects before heading back to such an iconic role, adding: "It's not that I want to get away from [SATC]. In a million years, who could get away from it?
"[But] if I'm not scared again that's not good for me. That's literally no good for me. If I'm not terrified and nauseous and worried [in] the first two weeks of production, then what's going to happen? You could wither on the vine. It's like if you can't use your leg. It just atrophies."
She may have just bagged a BAFTA, and been nominated for another Academy Award (both for The King’s Speech), but Helena Bonham Carter’s still not above working with her hubbie.
The actress, who’s appeared in just about every Burton film since 2001’s Planet Of The Apes, has entered into talks to play Hoffman in Dark Shadows.
Adapted from the gothic ‘60s soap opera about the inhabitants of a rundown mansion, Hoffman is a psychologist who specialises in rare blood disorders.
The film would also reunite Carter with her frequent co-star Johnny Depp, who plays vampire Barnabas – whom Hoffman attempts to cure of his thirst for blood.
Meanwhile, Michelle Pfeiffer is also negotiating to join the cast, and would play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the matriarch of the Collins family who’s not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade ago.
Pfeiffer, of course, pitched up memorably as Catwoman in Burton’s 1992 Batman Returns. Which is making Dark Shadows into a proper family affair.
Source: Deadline
