You can never predict what concept will spark competition in Hollywood. At the turn of the century it was competing asteroids and volcanoes; this year it has been Jane Austen bloodbaths, the Roman Ninth Legion, and warring Greek gods. Now, Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" has entered the competition. Last week, we told you Keanu Reeves was set to play the man of violent moods in "Jekyll." Now Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Forest Whitaker plan to give him a run for his money in "Jekyll and Hyde."

According to Variety, Abel Ferrara ("Bad Lieutenant") is set to direct a contemporary version of Stevenson's story. Whitaker and Jackson will play the two sides of the same man ... and something tells us that Jackson will probably be embodying the nastier half. But given Whitaker's terrifying, Oscar winning performance in "The Last King of Scotland," we could be completely off. It would certainly be a refreshing change to see Jackson play something like a soft-spoken scientist, wouldn't it? Read more...

Countless adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” have graced the big screen since the novel’s introduction in 1886. Isn’t it finally time one of them approached the material from a new direction?

Enter visionary Guillermo Del Toro, who lists an adaptation of “Jekyll and Hyde” among his post-“Hobbit” projects.

Specifically, and perhaps somewhat counter-intuitively, Del Toro wants to flip the pertinent question of the narrative – from “What does this monster, this manifestation of subconscious desire, take from Jekyll?” to “What is it that Hyde gives to him?” Read more...