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Posted: 061017

The White Queen’s Max Irons will play the lead in Condor, a ten-episode straight-to-series remake of Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor. The Audience series will have William Hurt, Bob Balaban, Mira Sorvino and Brendan Fraser as part of the supporting cast…Guillermo del Toro wanted to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness but because the film was going to cost $150 million and have an R-rating the project died…Anonymous Content has the rights to Stephen King and his son Owen King’s upcoming novel Sleeping Beauties with the ides to turn it into a TV series. The novel is set in the near future in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison. When the women go to sleep they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze that if disturbed makes them feral and violent…Liam Neeson is set to play detective Philip Marlowe in Marlowe. The story is set in the 50’s…Deadwood’s David Milch has been brought in to work with Nic Pizzolatto on True Detective season 3. Milch took on the job after he delivered the script for the planned Deadwood HBO film… we will see a sequel to Man From U.N.C.L.E…Brian Geraghty will replace Sean Astin as Teddy Roosevelt in the TV adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist for TNT…Sony will adapt Robert Jordan’s novels The Wheel of Time for TV…Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon will star in an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for HBO…Charlie’s Angels’ McG has left the Masters of the Universe reboot…Fox will adapt Justin Cronin’s vampire drama novel trilogy The Passage.