McG is in demand! Not by me or you or anyone who actually enjoys watching movies, of course, but by studio execs who can’t get enough of the half-named wonder. The Terminator: Salvation director has settled on his next project and it is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo. That thoroughly unnecessary and downright distracting subtitle is our first hint that this is not something to look forward to. “Scripted by Bill Marsilli, the film is an origin story of Nemo as he creates his warship, the Nautilus. The characters come from the Jules Verne novel,” Variety insists. The last time we saw Captain Nemo on the big screen was in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Poor guy.

The Tron sequel has landed its lead and sadly, it’s not the fellow pictured here. It’s “up-and-comer” Garrett Hedlund, who The Hollywood Reporter helpfully informs us “has been considered one of those actors that is on the cusp within the industry, though without much of a profile in middle America. Starring in a $150 million effects-intensive feature could change that.” Unless it’s a sequel to Tron.

The cast of The Expendables keeps on growing. Earlier this week we told you Forest Whitaker was set to sign on, and now comeback kid Mickey Rourke has added his name to the roster.” Rourke will play an unscrupulous arms dealer who becomes the go-to guy for a group of mercenaries planning to topple a South American dictator,” Variety reports. Comeback over!

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