“Johnny Ferraro, creator of the American Gladiators TV franchise, is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the big screen,” Variety reports. I smell an Unwatchable in waiting! “The film will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has been on the air every year except one during the past 20 years…The goal is to create an action story that takes place inside the world Ferraro has created.” Oh, an action story! I was hoping for a psychological thriller.

Another Philip K. Dick novel is coming to the screen. “Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said as the first of his works they will adapt for the screen,” per The Hollywood Reporter. “Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, Tears is the tale of a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him.”

Takashi Miike will remake the samurai movie Thirteen Assassins. “Project, which is set in the shogun era and follows 13 assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord, is based on Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name.”