It looks like Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire will be swapping his mask for a ‘Mecha’.

According to the Hollywood Reporter,  Warner Bros. Pictures have finally picked up the rights to adapt anime classic Robotech with Maguire taking the lead role.  Drew Crevello will produce working from a screenplay written by Craig Zahler (The Brigands of Rattleborge).  Frank Agrama of rights-holder Harmony Gold will exec produce; Jason Netter will serve in a producer capacity.

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Shocktillyoudrop.com reports that makeup FX legend Rick Baker will work on Universal’s upcoming remake of The Wolfman.

Baker is certainly experienced in the realm of lycanthropy having famously produced creature FX for An American Werewolf in London and Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Filming begins on Mark Romanek’s remake (based on a script by Andrew Kevin Walker) this December with a November 14, 2008 release date planned.  Benicio Del Toro is playing the cursed eponymous role made famous by Lon Chaney, Jr. in 1941.

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Kevin McKidd has told SCI FI Wire that he could be playing the the title character in Marvel’s cinematic adaptation of the Thor comic book.

McKidd,  who wil be seen next in NBC’s upcoming time-travel series Journeyman was apparently the number once choice for director Matthew Vaughn (Stardust).

‘I didn’t know about it either until I heard the rumors and I called my agent,’ McKidd said in a conference call this week. ‘And he went, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ve been talking to them about it.’ But the last I heard from my agent, they’re talking that they want to go for somebody much younger, a 19- or 20-year-old, for that role. So they’re reconceptualizing it as we speak.’

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