MEDIA BYTES
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Season three of True Detective is still going to happen. Since creator Nic Pizzolatto is working on other projects for HBO he will serve as a supervising producer…David Milch is still working on the script for the Deadwood movie…the new Flatliners film is a sequel that will have Kiefer Sutherland return as a professor at the medical university…Captain America’s Chris Evans will play the lead in a remake of the BBC series Jekyll…Attack The Block’s Joe Cornish will direct an adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snow Crash…Robert Downey Jr. and True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto are teaming on an HBO series that could be a remake of Perry Mason…Jamie Foxx will play Little John opposite Kingsman: The Secret Service’s Taron Egerton in Robin Hood: Origins…a sequel to Assassin's Creed is already being planned…DirecTV will adapt Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes into a ten episode series…Colin Farrell will play the lead in Sofia Coppola's remake of Clint Eastwood’s The Beguiled…Loving’s Jeff Nichols will direct a remake of Alien Nation…a fifth season of Idris Elba’s Luther is in the idea stage…Flight’s Robert Zemekis will produce a modern day retelling of Noah’s Ark…Sherlock Holmes’ Guy Ritchie will direct a live-action Aladdin film for Disney…