Phillip Noyce

Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston have been tapped to star in the adaptation of Joe Sharkey’s book Above Suspicion. The Giver director Phillip Noyce is set to direct the script by Chris Gerolmo.

History’s Roots will premiere on Memorial Day, May 30, 2016 and will be simulcast on A&E and Lifetime. A historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.

A&E is remaking the 1977 ABC mini-series, and the cast looks strong.

Centers on two desperate brothers who attempt a robbery in order to pay for their dying mother’s health care. The job goes south and during their escape, they steal an ambulance — only to discover that it’s occupied by a dying heart patient.

A round-up of this week’s TV casting!

Noyce has officially signed on to direct, while McGregor will star in the adaptation.

Set in the future, a boy suspects that the emotionless, crime free, seemingly perfect world in which he lives may not be as utopian as it appears. In this perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.

Set in the future, a boy suspects that the emotionless, crime free, seemingly perfect world in which he lives may not be as utopian as it appears. In this perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.

Now that the director’s chair is open.

“Salt” director in talks for adaptation.

Find out details on the new supernatural-fantasy drama scribes Kurtzman and Orci and brewing up, and where director Phillip Noyce now calls his new home.

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Noyce to helm Zoe Saldana starrer for Mandate Pictures.

Gerard Butler in negotiations to star.

Logline: Centers on Evelyn A. Salt, a CIA officer who is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy.

Logline: Story follows an American who travels to Brazil in order to recover from the violence he experienced in Afghanistan and ends up competing in a martial arts tournament.

“Salt” director jumps back into the espionage saddle with an adaptation of Don Keith and George Wallace’s spy actioner.

CW adds one from the Vampire Diaries family, and ABC adds another acclaimed director behind the lens for their upcoming hefty slate of pilot orders.

Logline: Story follows a married woman who makes a deal to spend three days with a wealthy man in exchange for a bailout loan, and then must choose between him and her husband.

Logline: A man invents a time machine with the fortune left by his late wife in order to see her one last tim

Logline: An FBI agent embroiled in a heated affair finds himself facing a murder charge.

Logline: Story follows a reformed space pirate who is thrown back on to the wrong side of the law when his teenage son helps some of his former crewmates and lands them both on a deadly prison colony run by an old enemy.

Logline: Story is based on the life of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, an animal conservationist in Kenya, who devoted her life to preventing the extinction of elephants.

Logline: Set in the future, a boy suspects that the emotionless, crime free, seemingly perfect world in which he lives may not be as utopian as it appears. In this perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of this society has a specific role, and 12-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The Giver is an old man who teaches the young boy how to use his gift, and slowly Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world’s past. He discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.

Logline: Set in 1960s America, centers on Swede, a man who watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.