Actually, Steven Spielberg gets The 39 Clues, or at least the screen rights to the “multiplatform adventure series to be launched in the fall by Scholastic Media,” Variety reports. A planned 10-book series with additional elements including an online game and collectible cards, Clues is about “the most powerful family in the world, the Cahills, who count Napoleon and Houdini among their relatives. Readers will be challenged to discover the source of the family's powers, revealed through 39 clubs that are hidden around the world and scattered throughout history.” Spielberg already has a full plate, including an adaptation of Tintin and a Lincoln biopic starring Liam Neeson, but anything that keeps him away from another Indiana Jones movie is fine by us.
The Hollywood Reporter uncovers a secret conspiracy headed by X-Files mastermind Chris Carter. Carter is in the middle of shooting Fencewalker, “a coming-of-age semiautobiographical character piece with no supernatural elements…Carter wrote the script for what is thought to be his passion project some time ago and raised the financing himself. The film has a modest budget and no distributor at this point.” The truth is out there, even if no one is talking.
Finally, you may have heard that Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are set to make their Bollywood debuts. It turns out that this story is only half-true. The U.K. Telegraph claims that “Stallone has signed up for a cameo role in Kambakht Ishq, a big budget blockbuster starring Indian heart-throb Akshay Kumar. Schwarzenegger has also been approached - and it would be the first time the two action heroes have shared the big screen.” But in a Reuters U.K. report, the California governor’s spokesman dismissed the rumors. Stallone’s participation is confirmed in the story of an Indian stuntman in Hollywood, which will set a Bollywood record with its $21 million budget.
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