* Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson will reteam for Elegy director Isabel Coixet's follow-up, Learning to Drive. Based on an essay in The New Yorker magazine, the film has Kingsley as a Sikh driving instruction here under political asylum, who gives lessons to a Manhattanite played by Clarkson. [Deadline]
* Whether Mark Strong ends up playing Lex Luthor in Man of Steel 2 is still up in the air, but in the meantime he's lining up other projects just in case. He'll join Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in Alan Turing biopic, The Imitation Game. The film follows turing, the WWII cryptanalyst responsible for breaking the Enigma Code, but was then persecuted for his homosexuality. Playing a little coy, Strong told the LA Times he'll play "the guy who knows everything". Morten Tyldum is on board to direct.
* Suddenly Emile Zola's 19th century novel Therese Raquin is all the rage. Elizabeth Olsen and Oscar Isaac recently starred in Therese, which just played at TIFF a few days ago. Now Brian De Palma is planning a "meta" version of the story, starring The Newsroom's Emily Mortimer. De Palma's version sounds pretty trippy, centering on a director making a film about Zola, only to discover that his life and those of his actors parallel the characters of the book. [ScreenDaily]
