At the Movies: Chris Columbus Takes a Thief?
Per the
Hollywood Reporter, Chris Columbus is in talks to helm
The Lightning Thief, a family fantasy based on the first novel in Rick Riordan's
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and concerning a boy who discovers he descends from a Greek god.... Eric Bana is a librarian who involuntarily juts to and fro in time and Rachel McAdams is the woman he falls in love with in
The Time Traveler's Wife.... Writer-director Gideon Raff (
The Killing Floor) is remaking 1980's
Terror Train.... The soundtrack for
Shrek the Third finds Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas dueting on Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank You" and Fergie covering Heart's "Barracuda." Also on the May 15 CD: Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" and Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die."
