News and Rumour Round-Up 10/04/11

Here’s a look back at this week’s film news…

• Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright and pal Joe Cornish (whose debut Attack the Block hits cinemas soon) have said that their combined work on a script featuring Marvel’s Ant-Man is going well…
• Josh Pence will star as a young Liam Neeson… or, more specifically, Ra’s Al Ghul in Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
• Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 28 Weeks Later director, will direct The Crow remake.
• M. Night Shyamalan is set to return to cinemas with the help of Will and Jaden Smith. The proposed idea will be set 1,000 years in the future and will focus on father and son’s attempts to resolve a crash landing.
• Mo-cap veteran Andy Serkis will head the second unit on Peter Jackson’s retelling of The Hobbit.