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Dan Simmons' classic science fiction saga Hyperion is set to be made into a Warner Bros. film. Graham King (The Departed), who acquired the rights to the Hyperion Cantos several years ago, is producing, and Trevor Sands is on board to adapt the first two books, "Hyperion" and "The Fall of Hyperion", as one feature. The challenging structure of the story, inspired by Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and Boccaccio's "Decameron", incorporates multiple viewpoints and timelines. (Hollywood Reporter)
Billy Crudup (The Good Shepherd) is set to play FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in Michael Mann's period crime drama about notorious gangster John Dillinger, Public Enemies. Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, David Wenham and Channing Tatum also star. (Coming Soon) [imdb]
Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench are in talks to join Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Sofia Loren in an adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine. Directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago), it revolves around a film director (Bardem) juggling the demands of several women in his life. (Hollywood Reporter) [imdb]
Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn) will write and direct an adaptation of Daniel Mason's novel The Piano Tuner. The story centers on Edgar Drake, a man sent to a remote village in Burma in the late 1800s to repair an rare piano belonging to an enigmatic British officer. Drake falls in love with a Burmese woman and her country, but as the officer wins over locals through music and medicine, things grow treacherous when his troops begin to suspect him of treason. (Hollywood Reporter)
An interesting-sounding project in pre-production is vampire western High Moon, described by actress/co-writer Jordan Bayne as "Lost Boys meets The Magnificent Seven".
High Moon "tells the story of seven very different people living in a small town in the old west, who are drawn together by fate to hunt vampires, and must rid the world of an ancient evil that has returned to seek his treasure: true immortality."
Sean Bean, Rutger Hauer, Shane West and Cillian Murphy are in talks to star. According to Bayne, John Woo (Face/Off) is looking to direct and executive produce. (ShockTillYouDrop)
The gorgeous English actress Olivia Williams (Peter Pan) has been added to the cast of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She'll play the ruthless and protective Adelle DeWitt who runs the Dollhouse where a group of young men and women work from. The show also stars Eliza Dushku (Buffy) and Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica). (Hollywood Reporter)
Will Kemp (Step Up 2: The Streets) and Elisha Cuthbert (24) will star in Ny-Lon, a CBS pilot based on the BBC drama NY-LON, about a London stockbroker and a New York records store clerk who become entangled in a transatlantic romance. The title refers to the flights connecting the US and UK. (Hollywood Reporter) [imdb]
Salon explains everything you were afraid to ask about Battlestar Galactica, which returns tomorrow.
And earlier: detailed spoilers about the spin-off pilot Caprica as well as my reactions here.