The Mountain Between Us: Gone Girl breakout Rosamund Pike is heading for further leading-lady success with this adaptation of Charles Smith’s romantic novel about strangers stranded in the wilderness following a plane crash. She will play the bride to be on the way to her wedding, and Charlie Hunnam is the separated surgeon for whom she’ll obviously fall during tough times in the woods. Now director Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) just has to cast the dog who joins them on their journey. [THR]
Paul Robeson biopic: We’ve already seen one movie about singer-actor-activist Paul Robeson win an Oscar – the 1979 documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist. Now maybe we’ll have another, because 12 Years a Slave’s Steve McQueen and recent Academy honoree Harry Belafonte are producing a biopic of the man, whom classic film fans remember as the singer of “Ol Man River” in the 1936 Show Boat. [Variety]
The Hunt for El Chapo: Another true story with awards potential that seems to be a remake of a documentary is this drug-war drama about the search for and capture of cocaine kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka El Chapo. Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) will helm from a script by recent Oscar nominee Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club). For the nonfiction version, check out this year’s Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty. [Deadline]
Project Almanac trailer: This movie looks like it does for time travel what Chronicle did for superhero movies, and not just because it’s a found-footage teen adventure. The first trailer looks really intriguing, with unfortunate ripple effects and possibly some major paradoxes, too. This isn’t your granddad’s time-travel movie. [MTV]
