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John Lee Hancock wrote the screenplay for Warner Bros’ crime thriller The Little Things in 1992, around the time he penned A Perfect World and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, both for director Clint Eastwood. At the time an in-demand screenwriter, he hadn’t been a director yet, and the script, about a pair of…

John Lee Hancock is attracted to true stories as a director. His films behind the camera include such real-life tales as 2002’s The Rookie, 2004’s The Alamo and 2009’s The Blind Side, which won Sandra Bullock an Oscar and his film a nomination for Best Picture. Then there was Saving Mr. Banks (2013), the criminally…

It may have taken nearly three decades to finally reach the screen, but the wait has been well worth it for writer-director John Lee Hancock’s brilliantly realized and complex thriller, The Little Things. And no, that is not a typo. Hancock wrote this film in the early ’90s — a different age in terms of technology in…

John Lee Hancock's hunt for a serial killer script The Little Things drew a killer cast of Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto. In Deadline’s Contenders Film panel for the Warner Bros drama that premieres January 29, Hancock explains why it took nearly 30 years to make a movie he wrote when he…

EXCLUSIVE: As 2020 winds to a close, talent reps are fighting with Warner Bros for back end compensation their clients would have earned had WarnerMedia waited out the pandemic instead of putting a year’s worth of theatrical films on HBO Max alongside U.S. theaters. And only telling filmmakers, casts and even…

Stephen King’s latest bestselling four novella collection If It Bleeds has quickly garnered three option deals, with a fourth in the offing because it involves a preexisting character who just starred in an HBO series adaptation. For those who know that King extends options for $1, that's an extra $4 in the prolific…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek is in talks to star with Denzel Washington in The Little Things for Warner Bros. John Lee Hancock is directing his script and Mark Johnson is producing. The film will begin production in early September. Malek is making a deal to play a sharp young detective…

Hit Broadway musical Oklahoma! is coming to television for the first time after Jack Ryan producer Skydance Television partnered with The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and music firm Concord. The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock and This Is Us' Bekah Brunstetter are writing the present-day adaptation. The series…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is negotiating with Chris Evans to star for director Antoine Fuqua in Infinite, an adaptation of the D. Eric Maikranz novel The Reincarnationist Papers. The film is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian at Par-based Di Bonaventura Pictures, and John Zaozirny. Rafi…

Netflix announced today what Deadline told you last summer. Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are playing Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and ex-partner Maney Gault in The Highwaymen from director John Lee Hancock. This was the project that goes back far enough that it once had Paul Newman and Robert Redford ready to play…

EXCLUSIVE: Highwayman, the drama that once had Paul Newman and Robert Redford poised to play the veteran Texas Rangers who put an end to the violent robbery spree of Bonnie & Clyde, might finally find its way into production. Sources said Netflix is in early discussions to team Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner as the…

Celebrated this season for his role as theoretical physicist Ian Donnelly in Denis Villeneuve’s brainy sci-fi film Arrival, alongside friend and frequent collaborator Amy Adams, two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner this year hopes to bring attention to another, lesser-known role, as a producer on John Lee…