Madeleine Stowe makes her writing and directing debut with Unbound Captives, a western set to star Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson. “Though Stowe's a newcomer behind the camera, getting the job and landing that cast is a payoff for her risky decision to turn down millions of dollars for the script in 1993…She would have played a woman (now to be played by Weisz) whose husband is killed and her two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party in 1859. She is rescued by a frontiersman, to be played by Jackman. Pattinson will play the son,” Variety reports.

Does the phrase “Scent of a Woman with a finance-y twist” make you shiver with anticipation? Please seek medical attention immediately. Al Pacino is in talks to star in Blink, an adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s nonfiction bestseller. Stephen Gaghan’s script “will center on the relationship between an older man (Pacino) and the twentysomething son he was never close to. The two reconnect early on in the pic, and the boy, an idealistic drifter who's teaching in a downtown New York school, and the father, a finance type living in Connecticut, must navigate their new relationship,” per The Hollywood Reporter.

Kevin Spacey will try to win back our hearts as Jack Abramoff in Casino Jack, to be directed by George Hickenlooper. “Film, formerly titled Bagman, stars Spacey as the once high-powered lobbyist whose bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos ultimately landed him in prison.”