9/18/2014

Katie Holmes to Direct 'All we Had'; Martin Campbell Eyes 'Hunter Killer'



The career comeback by Katie Holmes will now see her moving behind the camera for her directorial debut, All we Had, and it's a project with some solid talent behind it. Josh Boone, who recently helmed The Fault in Our Stars, has adapted Annie Weatherwax's novel which follows "a mother and daughter struggling to stay out of poverty and find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America.” Holmes will be pulling triple duty on this one as she will also star and produce. [TheWrap]

Either the script for Hunter Killer is extremely good or extremely bad, but for some reason a number of directors have circled the film only to pass on it. Antoine Fuqua, Steven Quayle, Philip Noyce, and McG turned it down before, but now Martin Campbell is giving it a look. Campbell, who directed Casino Royale and the unfortunate Green Lantern (sandwiched by lousy Mel Gibson thriller Edge of Darkness), could direct the film about "a renegade Russian military leader pushing the U.S. to the brink of a nuclear confrontation and shattering a decades-old peace agreement between the two former enemies. Cut off from all outside communication, a submarine commander and an elite Navy special forces unit are all that stand between the Russian assault and all-out war." Eh, we'll see.