Kurt Russell is set to coach again in the upcoming football drama “Touchback.” Filming is set to begin this week in Michigan on the second picture in Russell’s Influential and Cliche Sports Coach trilogy, which will conclude in 2012 with his small town baseball drama, “Bottom of the Ninth.”
The LA Times reports that Guillermo del Toro is in works with THQ to produce “games that are going to be technically and narratively very interesting.” This could yield some beautiful results, a video game anywhere near the visual and narrative caliber of “Pan’s Labyrinth” would be a very good, grounded move for an industry that currently thinks every game should have 39845890345 things to do.
Echo Lake ( behind “The Joneses,” a decently reviewed picture starring David Duchovny and Demi Moore which has already been forgotten) has obtained the script “Man at Arms,” which follows Lancelot (yup, the only Lancelot there is) and his “adventures” after the breakup of Camelot. Plot details are secret, but chances are it will start after the messy fight between Arthur and Lancelot (in which the King was reportedly “livid”) and focus on the action that the latter experiences after that. Writer Jeremy Lott is relatively new to the scene, but has served in various editing roles in TV series “Doctor Who Confidential” and “Spy Kids.”