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By Athos Kyrus
Jack Black in School of Rock
Diablo Cody
that delves into the history of rock ‘n’ roll to star in and produce. The film is based on
and explores the roots of blues, rap, country Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship,
and other genres. Cocaine and South America’s Strangest Jail,
a memoir Thomas McFadden wrote with
SCREEN GEMS INTERESTED Rusty Young. Cheadle is producing with
IN ROOMMATE Plan B Entertainment’s Brad Pitt, Periscope
Screen Gems has acquired Sonny Mallhi’s Entertainment’s David Guy Levy and
spec thriller The Roommate. The story centres Benjamin Goldhirsh of Reason Pictures.
on Sara, a college student randomly assigned Cheadle intends to play McFadden, a British
to a freshman dorm with a stranger named drug trafficker who was arrested in Bolivia
Rebecca. They start off as friends but and jailed in La Paz’s San Pedro prison.
things turn deadly as Rebecca begins to During his six-year stretch, McFadden served
target people in Sara’s life. Mallhi, an exec as a tour guide in a prison that thrived
VP at Vertigo Entertainment, penned the under a capitalist system made possible by
screenplay under a pseudonym so it would bribery of officials. The Brazil-born
be given fair consideration in the marketplace. Padilha won the Golden Bear at the Berlin
It wasn’t until after Screen Gems made an Festival this year for The Elite Squad
offer on Roommate that Mallhi revealed that and previously garnered acclaim for his
he wrote the spec. Mallhi most recently documentary Bus 174.
exec produced The Strangers for Vertigo.
Vertigo recently set up the Colombian FIGHT CLUB ART DIRECTOR
hostage drama Operation Checkmate at TO TAKE ON SIS
PROPERTY PICK UPS Screen Gems. Warner Bros. is developing the acronym-
DIABLO CODY MEET inflected project, a cop drama in the vein of
STEVEN SPIELBERG BRAZILIAN FILMMAKER TEAMS UP Training Day. Chris Gorak, a noted art
Steven Spielberg and Oscar
®
-winning Juno WITH DON CHEADLE director whose credits include Fight Club
writer Diablo Cody, already teaming for the José Padilha will direct Marching Powder, and Minority Report, is attached to
Toni Collette multiple-personality Showtime a drama that Don Cheadle has long wanted direct and pen the screenplay. Casting is
series The United States of Tara, are now presently under way for the project, which
collaborating on a DreamWorks project for
José Padilha
is described as having a soft greenlight. SIS
the big screen. Cody will be crafting a began life several years ago as In-Crime,
screenplay for the project based on an original with Kurt Sutter, a showrunner on FX’s
Spielberg idea. With what the idea deals, The Shield, penning the first draft of the
no one is yet saying. Also, remember that script and initially attached to direct.
Spielberg once contemplated directing Juno Russell Gewirtz, who wrote the Spike Lee
long before Jason Reitman became involved. hostage film Inside Man and Overture
Films’ upcoming Robert De Niro/Al
SCHOOL OF ROCK 2 Pacino cop drama Righteous Kill, also
IN THE MELTING POT subsequently wrote a draft of the screenplay.
Screenwriter Mike White, director Richard SIS stands for Special Investigations Section,
Linklater, star Jack Black and Paramount a unit of the police force built to combat
Pictures are re-teaming for School of some of the most brutal criminals around,
Rock 2: America Rocks. How will it differ and often operates under looser restrictions
from their 2003 original? The sequel picks than a traditional police unit. The feature
up with Finn leading a group of summer will centre on characters in the SIS unit of
school students on a cross-country field trip the LAPD.
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