The Fantastic Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Tales You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition in the Broadsheet: Another possible Leonardo DiCaprio project surfaces… Aaron Sorkin declined Jobs’s invitation to produce a Pixar film… Hilary Duff desires to function as next Stephenie Meyer… Occupy Wall Street’s celebrity dynamic will receive a closer inspection… plus much more. · Two good turns deserve another for filmmaker Steve McQueen and also the muse Michael Fassbender (pictured at right), who'll follow their triumphant tandem Hunger which fall’s Shame while using drama 12 Years a Slave. Chiwetel Ejiofor is coming initially from along for your true story of Solomon Northup, a NYer who was simply kidnapped and located in captivity in Louisiana inside the mid-1800s. Sounds good, but… [Variety] · …Quentin Tarantino will dsicover McQueen’s Fassbender and lift him a Don Manley. Or something like that like this: After apparently several days of arm twisting, QT has essentially set Manley with an undisclosed role within the own slave saga Django Unchianed. Two auteurist slave films in one year! A lot better than Snow White-colored, I guess. Whose will reign? [Variety] · Leonardo DiCaprio remains connected with another project noisy . development: The Imitation Game, a biopic about Alan Turing, the, um, “English math wizzard, logician, cryptanalyst, computer investigator, criminally punished homosexual, and tortured soul who committed suicide by consuming a cyanide-laced apple.” Warner Bros. paid out seven figures for Graham Moore’s spec script Ron Howard’s title has apparently achieve direct. [Deadline] · I’m somewhat late with this, but nevertheless: Jobs. Wanted Aaron Sorkin. To produce a Pixar movie. I'm speaking about! Sorkin switched the late visionary lower, alas, explaining, “The the truth is I don’t learn how to tell people tales. I have got a young kid who loves Pixar movies and he or she’ll turn cartwheels essentially remind her I’m writing one which i don’t desire to dissatisfy her by writing really the only bad movie inside the good status for Pixar.” Nuts. [The Daily Animal] · I'd not a clue Hilary Duff can be a novelist now. A Couple-time novelist, surprisingly, absolutely attempting to have her supernatural youthful-adult potboiler pair Elixir and Devoted changed into movies. Just throwing that available the greater understanding you've, etc. [MTV via THR] · “Do protestors feel celebrity support helps or doing harm to their cause?” Good question for your demonstrators at Occupy Wall Street. Seriously! Good question. [EW] · Whoops! An autopsy-room picture of Michael Jackson’s nude, dead body — along with his sex organs blacked (ahem) out — was briefly proven on tv Tuesday throughout Conrad Black’s wrongful dying trial. That's all. [People] [Photo: Getty Images]