Roger Avary told SCI FI Wire that although he’s nearly finished with the Return to Castle Wolfenstein script,  the project is on hold until the WGA strike ends,  adding that he fully supported the industrial action.

Avary said that he’d researched the paranormal, the American military and the Nazis and that the film will be ‘a World War II old movie of guys who are out on a mission, but this one will have the addition of monsters and horror and a lot of craziness all mixed together.’

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Variety reports that Jennifer Connelly has signed on and Kathy Bates is negotiating to star in The Day the Earth Stood Still remake for 20th Century Fox.

Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Ros) will direct the movie from a screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson with Keanu Reeves playing the lead.  The Story revolves arounf aliens landing on Earth carrying a message for all humans: Live in peace or be destroyed. Connelly is set to portray Helen Benson, the role Patricia Neal played in the 1951 original.

Fox has set a December start date in Vancouver. Erwin Stoff is producing alongside Derrickson’s partner Paul Boardman.

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