Akiva Goldsman

But they might replace him with Liam Hemsworth? What?  

He's been offered the lead in Goldsman's directorial debut.  

Winter's Tale, the flying-horse-featuring directorial debut from writer Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend, Cinderella Man, er, Batman & Robin) that was recently saved from development hell when Will Smith and Russell Crowe took supporting roles, may cast Colin Farrell as its star. Warner Bros. tried unsuccessfully to court Farrell for a lead in Arthur & Lancelot; if Farrell turns down the studio again, Goldsman is still eyeing a batch of chaps...  

There hasn't been a lack of hunky dudes for Warner Bros. and Akiva Goldsman to look at for the male lead in the writer/producer's directorial debut "A Winter's Tale." With "Downton Abbey" star Jessica Brown-Findlay already tipped as the frontrunner for the female lead, a handful of names have already been batted around to feature opposite the actress including Benjamin Walker, Tom Hiddleston, Aaron Johnson and Garrett Hedlund. But the the...  

Colin Farrell has been offered the male lead in Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut, Winter's Tale.  The female lead is set with Jessica Brown Findlay playing a dying young woman who falls in love with a thief who breaks into her West Side Manhattan mansion.  Farrell, if he takes the role in the Warner Bros. picture, would play the thief in this supernatural drama that occurs both in the 19th century and in contemporary times.  Winter's Tale...  

Akiva Goldsman may have his leadAs he puts the pieces together to make passion project Winter’s Tale in October, writer-turned-director Akiva Goldsman has been on the hunt for cast members to join Jessica Brown Findlay, who signed on last month. He’s now offered the main role to Colin Farrell.According to Variety, Goldsman is keen to snag Farrell’s services and backing studio Warner Bros. is also eager to stay in business with the Horrible...  

Thanks to her performance as Lady Sybil Crawley in the two seasons of Downton Abbey, which has become an unexpected smash hit for PBS in the US, Jessica Brown Findlay is on the cusp of being far more well-known than her otherwise limited on-screen resume would lead you to expect. Her sharp and Abbey-related career [...]  

Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation of Mark Helprin‘s novel Winter’s Tale has found its female lead. Deadline reports that Jessica Brown Findlay, of Downtown Abby fame, has landed the lead female role of “the dying young woman who falls in love with a ...  

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Several weeks ago, we reported that Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) was in the running for the lead female role in writer-director Akiva Goldman's adaptation of Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale.  Today, Deadline reports that Findlay has nabbed the role of "the dying young woman who falls in love with a thief who breaks into her home, a palatial West Side mansion, in a drama that takes place in 19th Century and contemporary Manhattan...  

Deadline reports that "Downton Abbey" star Jessica Brown Findlay has landed the female lead role in director Akiva Goldsman's Winter's Tale , an adaptation of the 1983 Mark Helprin novel at Warner Bros. Pictures. The project will mark Goldsman's directorial debut. The book is described as follows: Set in New York at the beginning and the end of the twentieth century, Winter's Tale unfolds with such great narrative force and beauty that a...  

to rewrite and direct Lobo, the live-action film based on the DC Comics franchise. Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are producing. Lobo is an alien that works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. Introduced as a hardened, rarely used hard-boiled ...  

Director Joel Schumacher was back along with Akiva Goldsman who wrote the script. Batman & Robin was designed to make action figures and toys. There was no attempt to make a serious Batman film. If you thought Batman Forever was campy, Batman & Robin made ...  

As he puts the pieces together to make passion project Winter’s Tale in October, writer-turned-director Akiva Goldsman has been on the hunt for cast members to join Jessica Brown Findlay, who signed on last month. He’s now offered the main role to Colin Farrell.  

I’ve been talking about the attempts to bring Dark Tower to screens for aaaaages now. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman had been working on bringing Stephen King’s epic series to both cinema and TV screens, but last summer Universal decided ...  

Seems that someone drank a whole pint of mad.  What's the chances of this being optioned for an adaptation by Akiva Goldsman by the end of the year? “The machine consisted of two gray elliptical booms about eight feet tall, separated by about 10 feet ...  

Ron Howard was on board to direct from a script by Akiva Goldsman. Javier Bardem was in talks to play gunslinger Roland Deschain. But then Universal got a look at the budget and immediately backed out. Howard then took the project to Warner Bros and HBO ...  

"Funny you should say that..." The Rock is cooking something. Can you smell it? Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are producing for Warners, and back in the days when Guy Ritchie was attached to direct, the screenplay was by Don Payne (Fantastic 4: Rise Of ...  

Television. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman and Joe Chappelle serve as executive producers, while Kurtzman, Orci and Akiva Goldsman are consulting producers. Additionally, Pinkner and Wyman serve as the series’ showrunners.  

The film takes place in both 19th century and contemporary New York, and is adapted by writer-director Akiva Goldsman from Mark Helprin's 1983 novel of the same name.  

"Platt recently produced 'Drive' and is currently in pre-production on Akiva Goldsman's 'Winter's Tale' and the Mark Wahlberg-Denzel Washington vehicle '2 Guns.'"  

The film will be directed by Oscar-winning writer Akiva Goldsman, who will be making his feature film directorial debut. Filming begins in October.