Producer Thomas Schuhly (Alexander) has acquired remake rights to Fritz Lang's 1927 silent sci-fi classic Metropolis, and is in talks with a number of top directors to helm the pic.... Also per Variety, Stanley Tucci is in talks to reteam with Prada pal Meryl Streep, playing husband to her Julia Child in Julie & Julia.... Keenen Ivory, Shawn and Marlon Wayans are penning and will star in a Scary Movie-esque send-up of cop films. Keenen Ivory will direct.
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VH1 has ordered a pilot for The Life and Times of Marcus 'Felony' Brown, an edgy urban comedy representing brothers Keenen Ivory, Marlon and Shawn Wayans' first foray into cable television production. Felony concerns an up-and-coming East Coast rapper (Darius McCrary) who moves to Los Angeles to lay down his second album. Among Marcus' (ahem) entourage are hype-man E-Z (Vince Green), manager Cash (Jon Abrahams) and bodyguard Tiny (Marcello Thedford).
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Per Variety, Peter Iliff will write and direct Point Break 2, a 20-years-later follow-up to his original Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze vehicle, this time concerning a surfer-turned-Navy SEAL on the trail of a criminal gang in Southeast Asia.... Tim Allen is a troubled action-movie star who lures a Jiu-jitsu master (Chiwetel Ejiofor) into the biz in the David Mamet-penned Redbelt.... The Wayans Brothers' Super Bad James Dynomite comic is being turned into a live-action comedy starring Marlon.... Per the Reporter, Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer is Cole Hauser's FBI partner — and Housewives' James Denton is their boss — in the psychological thriller Tortured.
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The consistently cool Omar Epps certainly has warmed up to the opportunity to step it up as his Dr. Foreman takes charge on Fox's hit medical drama, House (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET). TV Guide spoke to the actor about his latest round of rounds.
TV Guide: You played intern Dennis Gant on ER, so this is your second role as a TV doctor. Does that make it easier to toss out terms like nesidioblastoma?Omar Epps: Oh, it's still hard. [Laughs]
TV Guide: What would Dr. Foreman think of Dr. Gant? Epps: That Gant was weak.
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