What’s possibly even more exciting is the movie Scott has lined up before embarking on the sci-fi flick. He will be making a new Robin Hood adaptation starring none other than Russell Crowe as Robin Hood. It will be the fourth collaboration between the director and star following the brilliant Gladiator, the wonderful American Gangster, and the unfortunate A Good Year. Seeing the cell phone throwing Australian robbing from the rich and giving to the poor is practically guaranteed to be good time. All we can hope is that Kevin Costner and green tights aren’t allowed anywhere near the set. As long as they don’t play a factor in the movie, it should be great.

Brian DePalma Announces His Latest

Very few directors are as good at staging murder set pieces as Brian DePalma. If there were awards handed out for gory death scenes, then DePalma would be a perennial winner (seriously, why isn’t that a category at the Oscars?). The Carrie director hasn’t made one of his patented thrillers in a while, spending the past few years experimenting with genres like film noir (The Black Dahlia) and the war movie (Redacted) instead. Which is why it comes as exciting news to learn that DePalma has signed on to direct a The Boston Stranglers (no points for guessing what the movie is about). While the controversial serial killer case has already been adapted into a 1968 movie starring Henry Fonda and a variety of shitty TV movies, there has yet to be a definitive cinematic version of the story. If anyone can translate this terrible tale into a masterful movie, it’s DePalma. The movie is based on Susan Kelly's nonfiction book "The Boston Stranglers: The Public Conviction of Albert DeSalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders," so it should present a truthful and complex portrayal of the events, hopefully along the lines of David Fincher’s brilliant Zodiac.