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Warner Bros Wants To Team Dante Harper, Andrea Berloff On ‘Sleepless Night’ Redo

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 15, 2012 @ 5:01pm PSTTags: Andrea Berloff, Dante Harper, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros, which last fall optioned remake rights to the French action film Sleepless Night at Toronto, is bent on pairing All You Need Is Kill scribe Dante Harper with World Trade Center scribe Andrea Berloff to figure out the English language version of the film. The writers just met but their participation together will come down to scheduling as both are busy. The Frederic Jardin-directed Sleepless Night focuses on an undercover cop who must trade a duffel bag full of cocaine  for his son, who has been kidnapped by a drug dealer. The cop and his partner stole the drugs but were recognized. With his son’s life on the line, the cop must evade drug dealers all over the city and internal affairs to keep his kid alive. The remake is being produced by Roy Lee.

Harper scripted All You Need Is Kid, which Tom Cruise will star in for director Doug Liman later this year for Warner Bros, and the former production manager-turned scribe’s other work includes Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Foundaton. Berloff has several projects close to production starts, including a feature version of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, The Fugees and Straight Outta Compton. She’s repped by UTA and Management 360, Harper by CAA and Management 360.

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Tom Cruise Close To ‘All You Need Is Kill’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 8:31am PSTTags: Dante Harper, Doug Liman, Joby Harold, Tom Cruise, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Tom Cruise is ready to roll on All You Need Is Kill. He’s committing to the film, and Warner Bros is speeding it toward production as fast as it can with Doug Liman directing the Dante Harper script that has been rewritten by Joby Harold. Cruise will have to square that with a commitment to star in the Joseph Kosinski-directed Oblivion, which has Jessica Chastain playing one of the two female leads, and Universal testing a small list of actresses for the other role in the futuristic apocalyptic tale. I believe Oblivion will be his next film and that All You Need Is Kill will follow.

Kill is a project Cruise has been mulling for months and now they are sorting out the schedule for an actor who certainly has regained his leading-man mojo. He’ll next be seen in Rock Of Ages, and is shooting the Christopher McQuarrie-directed One Shot, though he’s right now on an international tour for Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol. Read More »

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Hot Scribe Dante Harper Takes On Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ For Sony And Roland Emmerich

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 1:41pm PDTTags: Dante Harper, Henry Hobson, Isaac Asimov, John Scott 3, Roland Emmerich, Simon Kinberg, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has hired Dante Harper to adapt Foundation, the groundbreaking Isaac Asimov science fiction trilogy which Roland Emmerich is developing to direct. Emmerich has been attached since the studio acquired the property in early 2009 when he and … Read More »

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