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EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal, Universal Pictures has optioned The Chain, the 2019 bestselling novel by Adrian McKinty. Baby Driver helmer Edgar Wright will direct, while Jane Goldman (Kingsman: The Golden Circle and X-Men: First Class) is writing the script. The novel had been in talks to be acquired by Paramount…

There's a new Game of Thrones prequel series coming, but just now HBO made it official that the Jane Goldman co-created prequel pilot is truly not on the table anymore. "After careful consideration, we have decided not to move forward to series with the Untitled Game of Thrones prequel," the AT&T-owned premium cabler…

Striving to get the sixth and likely final Game of Thrones book finished, George R.R. Martin is rather juiced about HBO's recent announcement of a straight-to-series order for prequel The House of the Dragon and sanguine about the fiery death of another prequel to the Emmy-winning blockbuster. “It goes without saying…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has more Game of Thrones in the pipeline, but the prequel written by Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts is no longer happening. Showrunner Goldman has been emailing the cast and crew of the project to tell them that the pilot is dead, we hear. The development has not been confirmed by HBO. The…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has set Josh Whitehouse to a lead role in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel pilot from writer Jane Goldman and author/GOT co-executive producer George R.R. Martin that has Naomi Watts heading a fast-forming ensemble cast. Whitehouse is a British actor who starred in Northern Soul and most recently wrapped…

After lengthy negotiations, Naomi Watts has signed on to lead the ensemble cast of HBO’s Game Of Thrones prequel pilot, from writer Jane Goldman and author/GOT co-executive producer George R.R. Martin. Created by Goldman and Martin and written by Goldman based on a story by her and Martin, the untitled prequel takes…

Manners maketh man. And writer/director Matthew Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman are going to make the third Kingsman film. The third ‘Kingsman’ film – now simply called Kingsman 3 – is set for theaters on November 8, 2019 in what’s being called the capper to the previous two-part series. Reports on just who will be…

As production is wrapping on the final installment of mega hit Game Of Thrones, HBO has given a pilot green light to a GOT prequel series project from hot feature writer Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, Kingsman) and author/GOT co-executive producer George R.R. Martin. Created by Goldman & Martin and written by Goldman based…

Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem received a rollicking Ryerson roll-out this week, injecting much-needed genre thrills into the Toronto Film Festival program, outside the Midnight Madness section. Based on Peter Ackroyd’s 1994 book, the story is a fictionalized account of a Jack the Ripper-esque serial killer…

EXCLUSIVE: The Limehouse Golem, from Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's Number 9 Films, has its world premiere on Saturday as a Special Presentation in Toronto. The gothic murder mystery is written by Jane Goldman based on Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel Dan Leno And The Limeshouse Golem. It’s set in an atmospheric…

Alan Rickman (Harry Potter), Olivia Cooke (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl) and Douglas Booth (The Riot Club) have boarded Jane Goldman’s adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s best-selling novel Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem, with Lionsgate acquired UK and Ireland rights. The film, which will be directed by Juan Carlos…

EXCLUSIVE: While screenwriter Jane Goldman and director Matthew Vaughn are expected to return for the sequel to X-Men: First Class, Goldman is in talks with 20th Century Fox on another priority project with a major director. She’ll adapt Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, the Ransom Riggs novel that…