Terror Tidbits

Posted by bob in News on April 11th, 2008

The Stepfather will be released on October 16, 2009 by Screen Gems. The thriller stars Christopher Meloni (Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay), Amber Heard (Hidden Palms), Sela Ward (House), Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl), and Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck).

First it was Earth vs. the Moon and now we have an alien invasion of the west coast. Columbia Pictures has optioned a screenplay for Battle: Los Angeles. The script is by Chris Bertolini (The General’s Daughter), and will spotlight a Marine platoon’s attempts to repel invaders from the stars. “I love the idea, and I love the script. I like it all,” Producer Neal Moritz of Original Films told The Hollywood Reporter. “We are going to be in production within six months. What’s attractive to me is that it’s a huge event movie that can be done at a modest scale.”
Steve Alten’s 1997 novel, Meg, has been optioned by Virginia-based Apelles Publishing Inc. along with producer Lawarence Gordon (Die Hard) and Lloyd Levin (Boogie Knights) attached. The novel, about a the 80-foot, 70,000-pound shark, seemed perfect for Hollywood but it defied both Hollywood Pictures and New Line Cinema (which would have used Jan De Bont to direct).