NEWS UPDATE: Spider-Man, The Mummy, Michael Bay, Tom Hardy and More

Director Marc Webb and stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone will return for the sequel to this year's "The Amazing Spider-Man" reboot. Sony hired screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to rewrite the sequel's script even before the first film was released. The original draft belonged to James Vanderbilt who also wrote the first film's script. The release date for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is set for May 2, 2014.

And speaking of reboots, director Len Wiseman ("Underworld", the "Total Recall" remake) has been hired by Universal to helm their reboot of The Mummy". The reboot is developed by writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The duo is also working on a "Van Helsing" reboot with Tom Cruise attached to star. The script for "The Mummy" reboot is being written by Jon Spaiths ("Prometheus") and it is said to be a much darker take on the material.

Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank are joining Tommy Lee Jones' film "The Homesman". Jones is directing, writing and producing the film about "a claim-jumping rascal (played by Jones) and a frontierwoman (Swank) as they escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa and battle the harsh conditions of the praire".

Tom Hardy is in talks to star in a film about George Mallory and his three attempts to become the first man to climb Mt. Everest, in the 1920s. The script, written by Sheldon Turner ("Up in the Air") is based on Jeffrey Archer's book "Paths of Glory, Everest".

Michael Bay has made some interesting statements in a recent interview, about his return to the "Transformers" franchise, as well as how the fourth film will fit in the series. Here's what the director, who is currently working on a small dark comedy called "Pain and Gain" (starring Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg) has to say :

"I thought I was done. Then the ride came out [at Universal Studios Hollywood] and the two-and-a-half-hour lines. And then you’re thinking, Oh my God, someone’s going to take this over. And you start doing a lot of soul-searching. Like, OK, I’m about to do a little movie, Pain & Gain … and the studio says they want to restart the franchise. And someone could come in here and screw it up, you know? So I’m thinking that if I do this last one, we set it on a new footing, we change a lot of things — but we keep the history of the three in place. But we broaden it so it can be set up and be carried on — it would have a better chance for survival, I guess. You know?

So it was just one of those things. It’s like, when you look what’s going on in the film business with the franchise frenzy right now, why is Cameron doing two more Avatar movies? Why is Peter Jackson doing three more Hobbit movies that are in the same world as Lord of the Rings? When you have a franchise, it’s very hard to give it up.”

No [it’s not a reboot]. We’re basically taking from the history of where it was — or where we left it in Chicago. And we’re going to carry it on from there."

Sir Ben Kingsley is interested in joining "Mary Mother of Christ", a film about Mary's defiance of King Herod in order to save her son, Jesus. The film is directed by Alister Grierson ("Sanctum") and written by Barbara Nicolosi and Benedict Fitzgerald (who co-wrote "The Passion of the Christ"). Kingsley is looking to join the film as Herod. The rest of the cast includes Odeya Rush ("The Odd Life of Timothy Green") as Mary, Peter O'Toole as Symeon and Julia Ormond as Mary's cousin, Elizabeth. Other actors yet to be officially confirmed are Dame Judi Dench as Anna the Prophetess and Hugh Bonneville as Satan.

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NEWS UPDATE: Spider-Man, The Mummy, Michael Bay, Tom Hardy and More

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