Paramount has hired David Leslie Johnson (ORPHAN) to adapt Daniel LuVisi's graphic novel LAST MAN STANDING, reports Variety.

Producers Justin Lin and Scott Stuber are going with total fresh faces for their untitled sci-fi crime thriller.

Producer Neal Moritz is working on a reboot of STARSHIP TROOPERS for Sony Pictures, reports Vulture.

Warner Bros. has paid around $2 million for the rights to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES author Seth Grahame-Smith's next novel UNHOLY NIGHT, reports Deadline.com.

24 Frames reports that New Line is developing a disaster film about the "Big One" titled SAN ANDREAS: 3D.

Tony Peckham (SHERLOCK HOLMES) is in talks to redo the script for Warner Bros. and Appian Way's THE TWILIGHT ZONE, reports Variety.

Todd Berger, who wrote the hot spec script THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS, has been hired to write the screenplay to MGM's WHERE'S WALDO?, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

Marti Noxon, writer on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and the FRIGHT NIGHT remake, has been hired to rewrite the OUIJA script for Hasbro and Platinum Dunes, reports Heat Vision.

RESIDENT EVIL team of director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt are developing a found footage series for Entertainment One, reports ComingSoon.net.

Twentieth Century Fox has picked up SAFE HOUSE scribe David Guggenheim's spec script NARCO SUB for Tony Scott to direct, reports Deadline.com.