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Director/Producer Steven Spielberg

Dreamworks and 20th Century Fox were set to begin production in 2010 on a new adaptation of “Harvey,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Chase play that was previously made into a 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart, which Steven Spielberg was going to direct until yesterday when he severed himself from the project.

“Harvey” is about a man who believes in an invisible friend who happens to be a six foot tall rabbit.

Reportedly, Spielberg was having a tough time casting for the main role and is likely one of the main reasons he pulled away. He immediately thought to hire Tom Hanks to play the same role as Stewart, but Hanks supposedly wanted nothing to do with a part the was played by the iconic star. Robert Downey Jr. was next considered for the role, but when offered the part he was hesitated to commit and was insistent on making revisions with the script. When it became clear that Spielberg and Downey Jr. could not get on the same page creatively, the director called it quits.

Spielberg is currently involved with the post-production phase of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, and has had a handful of scripts on the backburner for years, including an Abraham Lincoln civil war drama which will star Liam Neeson.

Source: Variety

Director/Producer Peter Jackson spoke to the press recently at the London premiere of his newest film The Lovely Bones, where he gave away some new details about two of his other projects, The Hobbit (writing and producing) and the Steven Spielberg directed The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (producing).

The news on both of these films is that Jackson and his writing team have completed the first script of the two-movie hobbit project. Jackson said that he had even more fun than he had anticipated writing the script, and that MGM has stamped it’s sign of approval as well. With Tintin, it appears that filming has completed and Spielberg now enters a two year long period of postproduction (with most of the time being reserved for including the film’s special effects).

Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) will direct The Hobbit, whom Jackson hand picked for the project. The two Hobbit films will release in the Decembers of 2011 and 2012, respectively. Tintin has a tentative release date of December 23, 2011.

Source: ComingSoon.net