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Writer/director Frank Darabont has decided to return to the universe of author Stephen King.

“I am at this very moment writing the adaptation of The Mist,” said Frank in an interview with horror magazine Fangoria.

The novella, from a collection of King stories entitled Skeleton Crew, follows a group of people trapped in a supermarket by a creature born of an unholy fog.

“Depending on a few factors, it may well be the next movie I direct, possibly next year,” he says. “Finally, my low-budget monster flick! And no, it will not be for television. There’s been some confusion out there in geek land about that.”

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Italian comic book series Dylan Dog, created in 1986 by Tiziano Sclavi, will get the big screen treatment, courtesy of Platinum Studios.

Entitled Dylan Dog: The Fourth Kingdom, the computer-animated thriller will follow the quest of Nightmare Inverstigator Dylan Dog to stop a supernatural serial killer intent on taking over a new kind of afterlife, called The Fourth Kingdom.

Ian Pearson, mastermind of the highly acclaimed ReBoot series, will direct out of his own screenplay.

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Director/Animator Henri Selick has made a new friend, one he just can’t stop talking about. He’s collaborating with indy genius Wes Anderson on the feature adaption of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

“I read the first pages. What excites me most is that Wes and Noah (Baumbach) are writing it, that we’re getting some seriously gifted storytellers from a different point of view to work out the story,” said Selick to Sci-Fi Wire.

The story, written by Dahl in 1970, follows a trio of angry farmers who scheme to get rid of their chicken thief, the titular Mr. Fox. Selick will bring his expertise, crafted on Nightmare Before Christmas and James and The Giant Peach, to adapt the story in stop motion. The task is made even easier for the animator, since director Anderson is himself a sketch artist strongly commited to handmade films, versus colder CG visuals.

“Wes Anderson is the primary reason I’m excited about the Fox film, and also how we work together. It’s a really nice collaborative situation.”

Selick is also committed to direct Coraline, based on the Neil Gaiman story, but sounds like he’ll work on “Mr. Fox” before anything else.

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After departing Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events and Fun With Dick And Jane, both for budgeting reasons, director Barry Sonnenfeld is now leaving Dreamworks’ remake of The Heartbreak Kid for, well, budget reasons.

Loosely based on a 1972 script by Neil Simon, Heartbreak follows the mishap of a newlywed chap who falls for another woman during his honeymoon. No stars are yet attached, even though the project was announced back in April. The studio isn’t losing any time, with Da Ali G Show director James Bobin already signed to take over.

Sonnenfeld’s string of bad luck extends back to his peaking with Men In Black and Get Shorty in the mid-90s. He tried and missed six times on television, including Fantasy Island and The Tick, got screwed by the 9/11 attacks with his Bomb-in-plane themed Big Trouble in 2002, and of course exited 3 movie productions. Not to mention the critical bashing served to The Wild Wild West and Men In Black II.

His only directorial effort since 2002 is a little dark comedy called White Noise (not to be confused with the upcoming Michael Keaton thriller), about a Hitler expert who must overcome his fear of death. But even there, details are quite scarce, and the status very shady.

Credit: TheHollywoodnews.com