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Legendary Pictures has purchased an original sci-fi screenplay from Justin Rhodes ( Contract Killers, Grassroots), Variety reports.

Details on the plot are few, but the story is said to focus on a hazmat team who, after being called in to clean up the aftermath of a particle accelerator disaster, find themselves targeted by an assassin.

Another original Rhodes sci-fi tale, Second Son, is also in development at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Alex Hedlund is attached to oversee the project for the studio.


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Max Landis, the screenwriter behind this year's hit "found footage" tale, Chronicle, signed on back in March to provide a screenplay for a sequel. Today, The Playlist reports that 20th Century Fox isn't entirely satisfied with Landis' take. The news arrives, somewhat surprisingly, from the screenwriter's own father, filmmaker John Landis.

�He wrote a sequel and it�s amazing," the elder Landis told the outlet, "and the studio read it and said, �We want �Chronicle� again!� And he said, �No, this is the sequel, it�s the evolution, and they said �No, we want that movie again!� So it�s difficult, we�re dealing with a difficult business.�"

The original film told the story of three high school students who make an incredible discovery, leading to them developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

Josh Trank, the director of the first Chronicle, is now attached to helm Fox's Fantastic Four reboot.


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