MEDIA BYTES
Posted: 012617

Star Trek’s Alex Kurtzman and Justin Lin are working on a new Robin Hood series set in the modern day…Calvary’s John Michael McDonagh is doing a true crime mini-series for HBO…Star Trek: Beyond’s Justin Lin will direct a Hot Wheels film. The story will follow a washed-up Illinois State Trooper who, after a dangerous military device falls into the hands of a criminal, fights the man his father once put behind bars…NBC is planning on turning the film The Italian Job into a TV series…Universal Cable Productions is developing an anthology series based on the works of Alfred Hitchcock…FX’s The Strain will end with season four…CBS is planning a new version of the TV series S.W.A.T.…British filmmaker Johannes Roberts will adapt Stephen King’s novella Hearts in Atlantis. The story follows a group of poor college freshmen and their first time away from home. The freshmen get addicted to a deadly card game…ABC is developing a TV series based on the Will Smith/Gene Hackman film Enemy of the State. This version will involve a NSA spy, a female attorney and an FBI agent who team to stop a global conspiracy that threatens to expose dark secrets and personal mysteries connecting all three of their lives…HBO has dropped plans for Noah’s Darren Aronofsky idea to adapt Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam into a series. The project will be shopped elsewhere