'Jack & The Beanstalk' Fairy Tale to Become Full Length Feature Film

[Brian Damage]

Bryan Singer is getting his green light on Jack the Giant Killer, and he’s now figuring out who'll climb the vine and slay the oversized villain. I’m told it has become the role that young actors are circling. I've also heard that Singer's sweet on Aaron Johnson, who played the title role in Kick-Ass, and portrayed the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. Now, Johnson is hardly a lock; New Line is seeing a lot of other young actors as well. Production will begin this spring. The remake was developed by New Line as a dark re-telling of the Jack and the Beanstalk fable, with a script by Darren Lemke and Mark Bomback. Singer sparked to it when he was simultaneously developing X-Men: First Class to direct. When the Jack script needed work, though, Singer was momentarily tempted to do the X-Men project first. But Warner Bros, which once pulled Singer away from X-Men 3 to do Superman Returns when Fox took too long to close, wasn't leaving the possibility for payback. Warner Bros locked Singer into a holding deal.

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