Is it a stretch to say handguns are the modern day answer to harpoons? Surely, but no more a stretch than it is to imagine Herman Melville’s 1851 novel “Moby Dick” as a big-budget genre movie set in the present day. That’s what “Wanted” director Timur Bekmambetov is planning to do, trading Angelina Jolie’s bending bullets for Captain Ahab’s harpoon-flinging quest to kill the White Whale.

News of the adaptation broke last fall, but since then we haven’t heard anything about the movie. So when we caught up with the director, who is pushing forward with plans for a “Wanted” sequel, we had to know: is “Moby Dick” still on? And is it still gonna be super weird?

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- Warner Brothers loses Indian “Hari Puttar” copyright case. (BBC News)

- The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg scope Keira Knightley in “The Beautiful and the Damned,” a love story about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (THR)

- Re-imaginings of classic properties continue as "Wanted" helmer Timur Bekmambetov tackles "Moby Dick." (Variety)

- Slackers of the world unite...Michael Moore’s “Slacker Uprising” available today for free download. (Slacker Uprising)

- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reportedly offered roles of Thompson Twins in Spielberg’s “Tintin.” And because everything else on this list has a literary reference, ummm, something, something Holden Caulfield. (Times Online)