Phillip Noyce, who has about 289 projects on the go at the moment, has made significant progress with his planned remake of pirate movie classic, Captain Blood, by finding a writer.
John Brownlow, whose most significant credit to date is Sylvia, the ultra-depressing Sylvia Plath biopic with Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, has been brought on to craft the new version of the tale, about a doctor who escapes from slavery to become a pirate on the high seas. Ahar! Gar! Etc. etc.
Warner Bros. is stumping up many, many pieces of eight in the hope that this might be able to emulate the box office take of Pirates Of The Caribbean… any of the trilogy, really, they won't be fussy which.
Noyce, meanwhile, is also getting ready to direct the thriller Above Suspicion, while waiting to bring secret agent flick** Edwina A. Salt **to the big screen. Busy guy.