* Robert Zemeckis made his return to live-action films with last year's Flight, after spending years in the world of performance-capture animated fantasies. Now it looks like he'll continue going the live-action route but return to the fantastical. He's being sought to direct YA adaptation Chaos Walking, which will be penned by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer Charlie Kaufman. Based on the firs book in Patrick Ness' trilogy, The Knife of Never Letting Go, the story takes place in a future society where everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts, making any sense of privacy a thing of the past and chaos the norm. That is until an area of complete silence is discovered by young Todd Hewitt, who begins to realize that everything he knew was a lie. [TheWrap]
* And good for Boyd Holbrook, not letting the disaster that was The Host keep him down. He's taken on roles in two major films, David Fincher's Gone Girl and the Liam Neeson actioner Run All Night. In Gone Girl, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's acclaimed novel, he'll play the kidnapper Jeff in the film about a husband whose wife goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. Holbrook joins stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry, and Neil Patrick Harris.
Run All Night is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, and has Neeson as an aging hitman who, along with his estranged son played by Joel Kinnaman, must defeat his former mob boss in a single night. Holbrook's role is unclear at this point.
