MEDIA BYTES
Posted: 072517

Jason Statham killer shark movie Meg has been pushed back to summer 2018. It was going to open in March…the second season hasn’t aired yet but Netflix is considering a third season of Sense8…Rogue One’s Donnie Yen will star in the adaptation of the video game Sleeping Dogs…Robert Downey Jr. is the new Doctor Dolittle…Sleight’s J.D. Dillard next film is a remake of The Fly…Ridley Scott wants to do a Gladiator sequel…Jordan Peele plans to make four Get Out style films…Amy Schumer is no longer doing a Barbie film…Highlander creator Gregory Widen will write Black Samurai, the story of the first black-skinned samurai to serve a warlord in Japan in the mid-1500s…an Assassin’s Creed TV series is in development…Don’t Breathe’s Fede Alvarez will remake the Jim Henson fantasy Labyrinth…FOX is developing an event series about The Cotton Club, Harlem’s hottest nightclub during the roaring 1920s that was run by the mob…Amazon has landed U.S. rights to the anthology series Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams from Sony Pictures Television. The show comes from Ronald D. Moore and Bryan Cranston…Hell or High Water’s David Mackenzie and Patriots Day’s Pete Berg are the frontrunners to direct the remake of Scarface at Universal Pictures. This version will focus on a Latino gangster in contemporary Los Angeles…Drive’s Nicolas Winding Refn is doing a 10-episode crime series called Too Old To Die Young with Ed Brubaker for Amazon Studios…David Fincher has signed on to direct World War Z 2.