1.) What’s Christopher Nolan going to do after The Dark Knight Rises if it doesn’t involve more Batman or the Justice League? Well, according to Michael Caine “he’s got some other idea” up his sleeve. Caine has been in Nolan’s last five films and tells Empire when asked about the director’s Batman franchise coming to an end, “He’s got to go on, he’s got some other idea, and I’m in it! I’ve been in everything he’s done since he’s been in Hollywood. We’re each others’ good luck charms. I always say to him, “I’m not your good luck charm, you are mine!'” Hmmmm, whatever could it be? [Empire]
2.) Etan Cohen (Men in Black III, Tropic Thunder) has been hired to rewrite Ghostbusters 3 for Columbia Pictures picking up where “The Office” scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky left off. The third installment in the franchise is expected to find original castmembers Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray passing the torch to a new generation of Ghostbusters. [Variety]
3.) The cast of Antoine Fuqua‘s action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen is taking shape. The film centers on a former Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler) who works to prevent a terrorist attack on the White House and Rick Yune (Die Another Day) has joined the cast as the film’s villain, a North Korean posing as a South Korean ministerial aide who is described as a sociopathic monster. Yune is also joined by Melissa Leo along with Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell. The film goes into production this week. [THR]
4.) Lindsay Lohan is reportedly in talks to star in the upcoming fifth installment of the horror-movie spoof franchise Scary Movie 5, a film that so far only has Ashley Tisdale attached and is set for an April 19, 2013 release. Lohan will next be seen in the title role of Lifetime’s TV movie Liz & Dick playing Elizabeth Taylor and is also set to star in The Canyons written by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), directed by Paul Schrader (Cat People) and co-starring porn star James Deen (Big Wet Asses 20). [The Wrap]
5.) Eli Roth hasn’t directed a full on feature film since the abysmal Hostel: Part II, but he’s been busy producing the likes of The Last Exorcism and the upcoming The Man with the Iron Fists as well as starring in films such as Inglourious Basterds and Rock of Ages. But it appears he is now ready to make another film as he is now in talks to direct Harker, a re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, for Warner Bros. Attached to the film to play Dracula is The Man with the Iron Fists co-star, Russell Crowe. The film is set up as the beginning of a new franchise with Jonathan Harker as something of a new Sherlock Holmes it sounds like. The script was written by Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy. [Deadline]
BONUS: At the age of 79, Peter O’Toole has announced he’s retiring. In a statement he says, “It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won’t come back… It’s my belief that one should decide for oneself when it is time to end one’s stay. So I bid the profession a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell.” O’Toole was nominated for an Oscar eight times and never won, though he did receive an Honorary Award in 2003. [People]
