Rumour Mill

Dark Horizons reports that production on Indiana Jones 4 has hit a bit of a snag with regards to safety regulations. It seems that insurance won’t cover Harrison Ford on the movie set if he has a real bull whip in his hands, and so the proposed alternative will be to insert a computer generated bull whip instead. Ford has rightfully called the situation “ridiculous” and has threatened to pull out of the film if he can’t use a real bull whip. Hollywood, we have a problem. Hhhhmmm, insurance for using a bull whip? Sure sounds like a load of, um, bull…

Warning signs came a couple of days ago when it was announced that Warner Bros. Pictures and Silver Pictures had bought a second Wonder Woman script from Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland. At the time it was reported that this was just a precaution, “to protect itself against the possibility that any similarities between the scripts could be fodder for future legal action” (which, when you think about it, doesn’t really make too much sense). But now Whedon himself has confirmed that he has been cut loose by producer Joel Silver: “We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that’s never gonna work… The worst thing that can happen in this scenario is that the studio just keeps hammering out changes and the writer falls into a horrible limbo of development. These guys had the clarity and grace to skip that part. So I’m a free man.”

Zack Snyder is red hot in Hollywood right now. His latest film 300 hasn’t even hit theaters yet, and yet all the buzz surrounding it has studios taking notice. Warner Bros have been quite eager to keep working with him, and as a result they have just signed a two-year first look deal with Snyder’s production company, Cruel and Unusual Films.