Plan B, the production company owned by actor Brad Pitt, has boarded the long-gestating “Beetlejuice” sequel.
The film, which has been in development for the better part of twenty years, has been on-and-off Warner Bros’s dance card for years. At one stage a Seth Grahame-Smith script commissioned by WB indicated that the project may be inching forward.
That Grahame-Smith script is no longer being used as the template for the film, with Plan B said to be starting from scratch.
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Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini Join ‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Adaptation
Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie are rounding out the cast for Cory Finley’s movie adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s young adult novel Landscape With Invisible Hand for MGM, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures
They join an ensemble cast that already added Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish and Kylie Rogers. Collins Jr. appears in Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, while Gandolfini most recently starred in The Many Saints of Newark, directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase, where he played the role of his late father’s character Tony Soprano.
SB Update
I updated:
• The BP Press section (2021) with the latest Miraval interview by Brad’s business partner Damien Quintard.
• The Plan B page was updated.
• The Movies section has been updated. I added the latest movies: Deadpool 2, Ad Astra & Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
And I have been working hard at some gallery updates. Expect some BP Media updates again too. Check out the nice one below this post.
• x045 October 06, 2019 – GQ Photoshoot
• x003 Photoshoot (2019)
• x039 October 27, 2014 – Between Two Ferns
• x053 May 16, 2017 – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• x033 September 19, 2019- Jimmy Fallon
• x067 September 20, 2019 – The Ellen Show
PS. The videos of the above screencapped interviews/clips can be found at the BP Media section.
Apple In Homestretch On Brad Pitt Formula One Racing Film
Apple is in exclusive negotiations and will close the first big film package of the new year. That’s the highly competitive race to acquire an untitled pitch package that will have Brad Pitt playing a racer who comes out of retirement to mentor a younger driver and take his final stab at glory on the track as the younger driver’s teammate.
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski will helm, and Ehren Kruger is writing the script. Top Gun‘s Jerry Bruckheimer is producing alongside Plan B.
‘Lego Masters’ Renewed for Season 3 at Fox
Fox announced that “Lego Masters” has been renewed for a third season, which is set to premiere in 2022.
Will Arnett will return as host and executive producer of the series, which is based on the British edition of the same name and sees pairs of Lego enthusiasts compete in building challenges with an unlimited supply of Lego bricks.
“Lego Masters” is produced by Endemol Shine North America, Tuesday’s Child and Plan B Entertainment under license from the Lego Group.
