News Week in Review 27th August – 2nd September 2007

* Entourage star Jeremy Piven will play a used car liquidator who has to save a car dealership during the 4th July celebrations in The Goods: The Don Ready story. The film will be produced through Will Ferrell and Adam Mackay's production company Gary Sanchez productions for Paramount Vantage.

* Keanu Reeves will star as Klaatu an alien sent down to earth to tell us to behave or else in a big-budget remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. The film goes into production next year and will be directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose).

* George Lucas seems finally set to go into production on Red Tails his World War 2 movie about the Tuskegee Airmen. The film has been in development for years and Lucas has hired John Ridley the writer of Three Kings and U-Turn to bash out a script.

* Oliver Stone has hired Bruce Willis to star in his fourth Vietnam movie. The film Pinkville tells the tale of the My Lai Massacre in which hundreds of Vietnamese villagers were massacred by American soldiers. Willis will play the general who led the investigation into the massacre.

* Rob Zombie is currently splitting audiences down the middle with his Halloween remake, he must be doing something right though as he has been signed by the Weinstein Company to write and direct two movies for them. It will be interesting to see what he comes up with. If he is left alone then hopefully we will get something on a par with The Devils Rejects.

* Zack Snyder and Frank Darabont will both produce a new version of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. The script will be written by Alex Tse who is also the writer of the upcoming Watchmen. The Illustrated Man is a collection of short stories that all are tattoos on the man in the title.

* Gregor Jordan the director of Buffalo Soldiers will direct The Informers based on the Brett Easton Ellis novel. The film version will star Kim Basinger, Brandon Routh, Billy Bob Thornton and Ashley Olsen.

* Danny Boyle's next movie will be Slumdog Milionaire. The film tells the story of an illiterate street kid from Mumbai who wins India's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Simon Beaufoy who wrote The Full Monty will script.

* Stuart Beattie who wrote Collateral as well as the first Pirates of The Caribbean will write the film version of GI Joe for director Stephen Sommers.