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Relativity Media Acquires ‘Scare Me,’ Sets Wentworth Miller To Adapt Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 22, 2013 @ 1:20pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Prison Break, Relativity Media, ScareMe, Stoker, Wentworth Miller
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has acquired Scare Me, a psychological thriller novel, and is setting Wentworth Miller to write the script. Miller is the actor who starred in the Fox series Prison Break who made his screenwriting debut on Stoker, the Chan-wook Park-directed thriller for Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush. It was brought in by Relativity Media production president Robbie Brenner.

The book is in the vein of Se7en, and it will be published in the spring by Angry Robot. Gotham Group brokered the book deal and reps Wentworth along with ICM Partners and attorney Harris Hartman.

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Kimberly Peirce To Direct ‘With A Friend Like Harry’ For Maven Pictures

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 1:57pm PDTTags: Kimberly Peirce, Maven Pictures, Wentworth Miller

Kimberly Peirce With A Friend Like HarryThe original 2000 French film With A Friend Like Harry centers on a family man, Michel, who is joined on vacation by an old schoolmate, Harry, who he doesn’t … Read More »

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Voltage Pictures And Killer Films Team On Wentworth Miller’s Next Script

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 5:02pm PDTTags: Wentworth Miller
Mike Fleming

New York, NY (April 13, 2012) — Voltage Pictures (THE HURT LOCKER) is joining New York-based Killer Films (BOYS DON’T CRY, MILDRED PIERCE) on THE DISAPPOINTMENTS ROOM, an original screenplay by Wentworth Miller. Nicolas Chartier and Zev Foreman of

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Jacki Weaver Joins Fox Searchlight Thriller

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: Chan-wook Park, Jacki Weaver, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Costigan, Nicole Kidman, Ridley Scott, Stoker, Tony Scott, Wentworth Miller
Mike Fleming

Jacki Weaver, whose murderous matriarch earned her an Oscar nomination for Animal Kingdom, has signed on to star in Stoker, the Fox Searchlight thriller that was written by actor Wentworth Miller under the pseudonym Ted Foulke. Weaver joins Nicole … Read More »

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Mia Wasikowska In Thriller ‘Stoker’ Talks

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 27, 2011 @ 7:27pm PSTTags: Carey Mulligan, Cary Fukunaga, Chan-wook Park, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott, Scott Free, Stoker, Ted Foulke, Tony Scott, Wentworth Miller
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Alice in Wonderland‘s Mia Wasikowska is negotiating to star in Stoker, the Fox Searchlight thriller that will be directed by Oldboy and Thirst director Chan-wook Park. The script was written by Wentworth Miller, the Prison Break star who wrote under the pseudonym Ted Foulke. Ridley and Tony Scott will produce with Michael Costigan under the Scott Free banner.

Carey Mulligan had been attached when the script sold, but it be Wasikowska in the lead role when shooting begins this spring. She’ll play an eccentric teen whose enigmatic and estranged uncle returns to the family after the death of the girl’s father. Strange things begin to happen. Jodie Foster had been attached along with Mulligan, but she’s not doing the film, I’m told. When he sold Stoker, Miller had also written Uncle Charlie, a prequel that explores another chapter in the history of a family with a knack for burying secrets as well as bodies. Read More »

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‘Prison Break’ Star Wentworth Miller Leads Double Life, With Two Scripts In Play

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 3:48pm PDTTags: Carey Mulligan, Fox Searchlight, Jodie Foster, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Stoker, Ted Foulke, Wentworth Miller
Mike Fleming

Wentworth MillerIs Wentworth Miller a writer trapped inside the body of an actor, plotting an escape? Miller, best known for starring in the Fox series Prison Break, now has two scripts in play, each of which he wrote under the … Read More »

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