The on-again, off-again film project The Thin Man, based on Dashiell Hammett's stories about Nick and Nora Charles, appears to be stalled again, due to budget problems and Johnny Depp's busy schedule.
Edward James Olmos is in talks to play the villain in Baltasar Kormakur's Two Guns film, based on a graphic novel. If the deal goes through, he will join Mark Wahlberg playing a Navy SEAL and Denzel Washington as a DEA agent who work together, not knowing each of them is undercover.
Muppets director James Bobin is on board to direct an adaptation of the novel Agent Zigzag, based on the book by Ben McIntyre. The plot centers on a man named Eddie Chapman, a criminal-turned-hero who serves his country by operating as a double agent during World War II, spying on Germany and reporting back to MI5.
Here's one I overlooked last week: Shane Salerno has optioned Steve Hamilton's 2011 Edgar Award-winning Best Novel The Lock Artist for film. Salerno also co-wrote the screenplay adaptation of Don Winslow's Savages. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)
Director Rob Reiner is getting back into the thriller genre with the project You Belong To Me. It's described as being "in the tradition of Cape Fear," and is about a psychiatrist who makes a mistake when he exposes details about himself to his patients.
Aaron Eckhart has been cast in the upcoming thriller about a former Secret Service agent who has to prevent terrorists from attacking the White House. Titled either White House Taken or Olympus Has Fallen (depending upon the source), Eckhart will play the president and joins previously-cast actor Gerard Butler
New Line has picked up an untitled noir thriller from Allison Burnett, that's filled with sensuality and intrigue and described as "being in the tradition of Body Heat."
TV
BBC2's new five-part police drama Line of Duty begins tomorrow night, starring Lennie James as the much honored and admired Detective Gates. (Hopefully, it will cross the Pond to BBC America in the not-too-distant future.)
Actor Mark Williams has been cast in a new BBC One crime drama based on the Father Brown stories by GK Chesterton about a priest who accidentally finds himself as a crime detective.
CBS is considering bringing back Unforgettable as a mini-series next summer. The recently-canceled police procedural starred Poppy Montgomery as a detective who has the ability to remember everything.
The serial-killer show Dexter will kick off the upcoming Comic Con, while executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa of another Showtime program, Homeland, will debut the first two minutes of the series' second season premiere.
PODCASTS
Don Winslow appeared on CBS This Morning to talk about his new Savages prequel, titled The Kings of Cool.
Thanks to Elizabeth Foxwell for noting that the International Spy Museum offers occasional podcasts, including Christina Shelton discussing her new book Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason.
THEATER
The Broadway production of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca lost its leading man and lady when the show also lost its financial backing. But now funding seems to be in place, two new stars have signed on: Jill Paice (The Woman in White) as a new wife simply known as I, and Ryan Silverman (who played Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway) as her husband, the wealthy Englishman Maxim de Winter.
The Bad and the Better by Derek Ahonen runs through July 21 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in New York. The New York Times called it a "red-herring-stuffed panorama of dime-store pulp," that includes 26 cast members. The plot ultimately centers on two brothers, a disgraced former NYPD cop named Rick Lang (William Apps) and his equally damaged brother, Chuck (David Nash), an undercover agent who infiltrates an anarchist cell by masquerading as an Off Off Broadway playwright.
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