Rupert Wyatt is stepping down as director and executive producer of Showtime’s series Halo.  “Showtime's adaptation of Halo is evolving beautifully with rich characters, compelling stories and powerful scripts,” said Gary Levine, President of Programming, Showtime Networks in a statement. “Obviously, the production…

Focus Features and Participant Media have take the wraps off the first teaser trailer for Captive State, the new film from The Rise of the Planet of the Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt. The dystopian pic that’s set not so far off in the future is set to hit theaters March 29, 2019. Written by The Battle of Shaker Heights…

Showtime has given a 10-episode series order to Halo (working title), an hourlong live-action scripted drama based on the award-winning Xbox video game franchise, from Awake creator Kyle Killen, Rise of the Planet of the Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television. Killen serves as writer…

EXCLUSIVE: Madeline Brewer, in her studio film debut, is attached to co-star in the Participant Media film Captive State from director Rupert Wyatt, said to begin filming later this month. Co-written by Wyatt and Erica Beeney, the pic is a sci-fi thriller set in Chicago decades after the inhabitancy of alien forces…

EXCLUSIVE: Bates Motel star Vera Farmiga, Jonathan Majors and rapper Colson Baker (a.k.a Machine Gun Kelly) have been cast in the Rupert Wyatt-directed sci-fi film Captive State from Participant Media. They join John Goodman and Ashton Sanders in the film, which Wyatt also co-wrote with Erica Beeney. Production is…

Black Mirror actor Wyatt Russell had landed the lead role in AMC’s upcoming drama series Lodge 49, from creator Jim Gavin, showrunner Peter Ocko and executive producer Paul Giamatti. Written and created by Gavin, Lodge 49 is a modern fable set in Long Beach and centered on Dud (Russell), a deadbeat but charming…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Participant Media has acquired worldwide rights to Captive State, a package for a big-scale film that Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt will direct from a script he wrote with Erica Beeney. The project will be produced by David Crockett and Wyatt. Jeff Skoll and…

Despite Warner Bros' The Exorcist franchise racking up close to $590M at the global box office, the only title in the series that really ever worked on a mass level was William Friedkin's 1973 original, which with re-releases racked up 75% of the series' entire B.O. The sequels never clicked. Now WBTV is making a go…

It has been a noticeable trend at Fox this pilot season — many of the network’s pilot orders came with a director already on board, leapfrogging the first stage in pilot production which involves locking in a helmer. All of Fox’s comedy pilots except for the very first to get ordered — Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Juliu…

Rupert Wyatt (Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is set to direct Fox’s drama pilot The Exorcist, a modern reinvention inspired by William Blatty's 1971 book. Written by Jeremy Slater, The Exorcist is described as a propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family's case…

UPDATE: I’ve now got confirmation that Rupert Wyatt has in fact exited Gambit. There are rumors that there was some disagreement over script and budget, but the director’s camp says it came down to timing. The film was supposed to start in November, and it moved to March, clashing with another commitment, though they…

Channing Tatum, long touted to star in the X-Men spinoff Gambit, closed his deal. Is that a story? The only qualification was that one outlet, hearing the same rumor as every other outlet, ran a big misleading headline saying Tatum would drop out of the film, though in the story got only as concrete as saying…