Bryan Singer (Superman) will develop and direct a film based on a Vanity Fair article titled U Want Me 2 Kill Him? The project is being setup at Warner Bros., according to Variety.
The article tells of a 14-year-old British boy who had a wild imagination and developed multiple personas and characters on an Internet chat room. He corresponded with a 16-year-old, who later visited the boy and stabbed him twice. The 16-year-old was arrested for attempted murder but even more bizarre was the fact that the 14-year-old was charged for his own murder attempt, for in England, it is possible to be arrested for inciting your own murder.
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Steven Spielberg will fasttrack his untitled picture about the 1972 Munich Olympics, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will begin shooting the project immediately after he finishes work on The War of the Worlds this sumemr. Universal and Dreamworks will co-distribute the picture for a December 23 release. Tony Kushner has done a rewrite on a script by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) and Charles Randolph (The Interpreter).
Details about the Olympics film have been carefully guarded, but it will center around the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
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