How many times have you been watching a frilly Jane Austen adaptation when the thought occurs to you: “You know what would really improve this movie? An alien attack!” Well, your dreams have come true. Variety reports that “Will Clark is set to direct Pride and Predator, which veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.”

My favorite Halle Berry movie is the one where she plays the jewel thief. Actually, that one hasn’t been made yet – but be patient! Berry is “attached to star in Who Is Doris Payne, a Eunetta Boone-scripted fact-based film about an international jewel thief whose career spanned five decades.

William Monahan is a busy man. The Departed writer, last seen adapting The Art of the Heist, is also set to turn the John Grisham legal thriller (as opposed to the John Grisham whaling adventure, I guess) The Associate into a screenplay. Shia LaBeouf stars as “a Yale Law School student with a sordid secret that leaves him vulnerable to blackmail.”

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