Tattered Essence

Liam Neeson “is negotiating to star in Unknown White Male, the Dark Castle thriller that will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra,” Variety reported. The film is adapted from Didier Van Cauwelaert’s novel Out of My Head. Production is set to begin next January.

Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) will direct a screen version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “The project has been set up at Universal, where Scott will produce the project with an eye to direct. His sometimes collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, meanwhile, will produce with an eye to star,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, which added that Farhad Safinia will adapt the novel and “much of the timing going forward will depend on the script.”