IESB reports that Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura will commence work on a live-action movie version of G.I. Joe as his next project after Transformers. During the Shooter press junket, Di Bonaventura said that he has Mark Wahlberg in mind for the lead role of Duke, the Joes’ second-in-command and leader in the field.

David Elliot and Paul Lovett have penned a draft of the G.I. Joe script that apparently charts the rise of Cobra Commander before the formation of Cobra Command.

The original G.I. Joe comic strip was created by David Breger for United States military magazines during World War II and in 1964 became a series of military-themed 12″ articulated action figures produced by the Hasbro toy company.

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The cloak worn by Alec Guinness in Star Wars has exceeded expectations by raking in £54,000 ($104,000) at a London auction of film and TV costumes reports the BBC. An anonymous telephone bidder won the bid. The cloak was missing for many years, being loaned to other films - including The Mummy in 1999 - and was even hired out as fancy dress. It was only rediscovered in a a stock-check two years ago, and since then it has formed part of a film memorabilia exhibition in London.

Other items sold included a grey coat worn by Gary Oldman as Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which fetched £15,600 and Tom Baker’s burgundy coat, tweed trousers and scarf from Doctor Who which sold for £24,600.

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Angelina Jolie has been offered the lead in 20th Century Fox’s remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still reports IESB. In addition to this news, The Exorcism of Emily Rose helmer Scott Derrickson has been offered direction duties.

The original 1951 features tells the story of a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to warn its leaders not to take their conflicts into space, or they will face lethal consequences. The movie was adapted by Edmund H. North from the story ‘Farewell to the Master‘ by Harry Bates, and directed by Robert Wise.

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IESB reports that 20th Century Fox is rumoured to be after Charlie’s Angels helmer McG to direct a remake of the 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage. The Michigan born director is also attached to an adaptation of the DC Comics property The Losers, which is about a team of special forces soldiers who declare war on the CIA after their Agency handler tries to assassinate them.

The original Fantastic Voyage, starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien and Donald Pleasence told the story of a technology that enabled matter to be miniaturized allowing a submarine and its crew to be shrunk and injected into a human patient’s bloodstream.

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Filming on the adaptation of Susan Cooper’s acclaimed action-fantasy novel The Dark is Rising (released 28 September 2007) has begun, and 20th Century Fox sent out the following press release with details on the cast, crew and plot:

‘The film’s impressive international ensemble includes Golden Globe® Award winners Ian McShane (”Deadwood”) as Merriman, and Frances Conroy (”Six Feet Under”) as Mrs. Greythorne. Christopher Eccleston (”Heroes,” 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds) has been cast as The Rider, and newcomer Alexander Ludwig will portray the story’s hero, Will Stanton.

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Producer Joel Silver was at San Francisco’s WonderCon over the weekend to promote his new film The Reaping, but it didn’t take long for fans in the audience to question him about the status of Wonder Woman.

The SCI-FI Wire quotes him as saying: ‘We’re not there yet. I mean, look, … for a while these Marvel Comics [movies] have been kicking the DC Comics [movies’] ass. You know? I mean all these characters that just keep coming out. And, look, they revived Batman. They’re making a new Batman now. It should be great. They’re making a new Superman, and they’re going to do Justice League, all the characters, which I think is a cool idea. And we’re going to get Wonder Woman to work.’

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George Lucas has finally struck a deal with Paramount to release the 1990s TV show Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on DVD, reports IGN.

‘Ultimately [I] wanted to release it on DVD with documentaries.’ said Lucas, adding that the documentaries will focus on the famous people that Jones crossed paths with on the episodes. Lucas intends for the disks to be used as learning tools,  aimed at high school students and to that end, the DVDs will include lesson plans, which will explain how the episodes, plus the 100 hours of documentaries can teach students about the historical figures seen on the series.

The DVDs will include the reedited versions of the series previously available on VHS, which took the 44 episodes of the show and turned them into 22, 90 minute, feature length stories. Lucas also added that it is costing Paramount more to digitally clean up the 16mm prints than it did to shoot the shows in the first place.

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New footage from Spiderman 3 is now online on NBC.com.

The clip is an extended version of what was aired on television yesterday evening during the showing of the new Heroes episode. It runs for roughly six minutes. The video can be viewed in HD quality, both at 480p and 720p resolutions. It is suggested that only internet users with a broadband connection attempt to load the clip, as it clocks in at a whopping 229MB and 285MB file size respectively. Click here to watch it.

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