The Truly Amazing Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Tales You Will Be Speaking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition from the Broadsheet: Another possible Leonardo DiCaprio project surfaces… Aaron Sorkin rejected Jobs’s invitation to create a Pixar film… Hilary Duff really wants to function as the next Stephenie Meyer… Occupy Wall Street’s celebrity dynamic will get a closer inspection… and much more. · Two good turns deserve another for filmmaker Steve McQueen and the muse Michael Fassbender (pictured at right), who'll follow their triumphant tandem Hunger which fall’s Shame using the drama 12 Years a Slave. Chiwetel Ejiofor is originating along for that true story of Solomon Northup, a NYer who had been kidnapped and locked in captivity in Louisiana within the mid-1800s. Sounds good, but… [Variety] · …Quentin Tarantino might find McQueen’s Fassbender and lift him a Don Manley. Or something like that: After apparently several weeks of arm twisting, QT has basically set Manley to have an undisclosed role in the own slave saga Django Unchianed. Two auteurist slave films in a single year! Much better than Snow Whitened, I suppose. Whose will reign? [Variety] · Leonardo DiCaprio continues to be associated with another project at the begining of development: The Imitation Game, a biopic about Alan Turing, the, um, “English math wizzard, logician, cryptanalyst, computer researcher, criminally punished homosexual, and tortured soul who committed suicide when you eat a cyanide-laced apple.” Warner Bros. compensated seven figures for Graham Moore’s spec script Ron Howard’s title has apparently reach direct. [Deadline] · I’m just a little late for this, but nonetheless: Jobs. Wanted Aaron Sorkin. To create a Pixar movie. I am talking about! Sorkin switched the late visionary lower, alas, explaining, “The the fact is I don’t understand how to tell individuals tales. I've got a youthful kid who loves Pixar movies and she or he’ll turn cartwheels basically let her know I’m writing one and that i don’t wish to dissatisfy her by writing the only real bad movie within the good reputation for Pixar.” Nuts. [The Daily Animal] · I'd no clue Hilary Duff is really a novelist now. A 2-time novelist, believe it or not, absolutely wanting to have her supernatural youthful-adult potboiler pair Elixir and Devoted converted into movies. Just tossing that available the more knowledge you have, etc. [MTV via THR] · “Do protestors feel celebrity support helps or harming their cause?” Good question for that demonstrators at Occupy Wall Street. Seriously! Good question. [EW] · Whoops! An autopsy-room picture of Michael Jackson’s nude, dead body — together with his genital area blacked (ahem) out — was briefly proven on television Tuesday throughout Conrad Black’s wrongful death trial. That's all. [People] [Photo: Getty Images]