According to Variety, Dimension Films has made a deal with Sin City director Robert Rodriguez to adapt Michael Allred’s Madman comic into a live-action film. Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan will produce via their Troublemaker Studios, while George Huang (Swimming With Sharks) will direct a script he’ll write with Allred. The aim is to follow a similar template on the film that was used for Sin City.

Madman is a post-modernist reimagining of the Frankenstein tale, with a superhero twist. The title character, killed in a car accident, is reanimated by an eccentric doc who names him Frank Einstein and instills in him enhanced senses, psychic power and exceptional physical skills. The doc can’t fix his creature’s face, so Madman wears a costume modeled after his fave superhero to hide his scars.

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The Ocean’s Thirteen teaser poster has exclusively gone online on Moviefone. It features the text “What are the odds of getting even? 13 to one.” (with a big ‘13′ dead center) hovering over a poker table, around which George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and the rest of the original Ocean’s 11, plus their nemesis Andy Garcia, are situated. That’s right, only twelve people. Who’s missing? Al Pacino. 

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Following yesterday’s bunch of concept art images, IGN have been talking exclusively to John Malkovich about his involvement in the Robert Zemeckis adaptation of Beowulf. The actor has been cast as Unferth, the thane of the Danish lord Hroðgar in the 3D animated version of the epic poem.

When asked if he was simply providing a voice for the film he said, “No, it’s not that. You do everything but then it’s given a form of computer animation afterwards. But, no, we were all on set. We were all acting. It’s not film. There’s no film, there’s no lights. There are video references that the specialists and technicians utilize, but it’s actually all recorded on computer and all the data is fed to the technicians and then they will animate it.”

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