New York Magazine’s Vulture
http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/collet-serra-joining-here-there-be-monsters-bradley-cooper-john-paul-jones.html
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According to New York Magazine’s Vulture, director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Orphan) is in negotiations to take control of the long-gestating Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. co-production of Here There Be Monsters, a Brian Helgeland script which he offered to Bradley Cooper to star in as its leading man. If all goes to plan, Cooper would play real-life Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones, albeit a much younger Jones, well before he had famously “not yet begun to fight” the Brits. After he’s stripped of his British naval commission, Jones is hired by a shipping magnate to investigate the disappearance of merchant ships in the North Atlantic, which are used as toothpicks by a giant squid.
Meanwhile Collet-Serra is still attached to Warner Bros.’ Harker, a revisionist take on the classic Dracula tale that’s told from the point of view of the Scotland Yard detective tasked with solving a string of grisly, blood-draining homicides committed by the Transylvanian transplant. Harker is scheduled to start production in 2014 with Russell Crowe in the title role.
And let’s not forget about Akira, which Collet-Serra had been brought aboard to direct last July but stalled when Warner Bros. balked at the inflated 90-million-dollar budget, insisting that Collet-Serra shave down to a less frightful number.
Oh, and isn’t Bradley Cooper next scheduled to film The Hangover 3? We’ll see how this all shakes out.