Tom Hardy May Climb Everest

The Dark Knight Rises' Tom Hardy is in early talks to star in director Doug Liman's period adventure film Everest for Sony Pictures.

Deadline reports that the actor would play George Mallory, the 1920s climber who tried three times to scale the world's highest mountain. After disappearing on his third attempt, it is still unknown whether or not Mallory ever reached the top.

The film was adapted by Up in the Air scribe Sheldon Turner from Jeffrey Archer's book Paths of Glory.

Liman will direct Everest once he's completed shooting Tom Cruise's All You Need is Kill for Warner Bros.

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Anne Hathaway Eyes Spielberg's Robopocalypse

Imagine Catwoman and Thor together in a sci-fi film directed by Steven Spielberg. It might just happen.

The Hollywood Reporter says Anne Hathaway is in early talks to play the female lead opposite Chris Hemsworth in Robopocalypse.

No details yet on their roles, but the project is an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's book. It's set to be Spielberg's next film following the release of Lincoln.

Former 20th Century Fox boss Tom Rothman has also come aboard to produce Robopocalypse, which is a Fox-DreamWorks co-production.

Robopocalypse is set to open April 25, 2014.

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Underworld Director Reboots The Mummy

Len Wiseman, he of Total Recall reboot and Underworld franchise fame, is in talks to direct Universal's reboot of The Mummy. Or re-reboot, one might say.

We learned last April that Jon Spaihts -- who also handled the first draft of Prometheus -- was scripting the film. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Transformers) are producing with Sean Daniels and Jim Jacks, the producers of Universal's Mummy series with Brendan Fraser that began in 1999.

Not much is known about Spaihts' script, though it is said to be set in the modern era. "I think the sensibility and the cutting edge of Underworld is a fantastic meld for what we want to do going forward with The Mummy,” Daniels told Heat Vision. “We are going to push the edge of scary entertainment.”

Boris Karloff, of course, starred in the original The Mummy in 1932. That film spawned a successful franchise in and of itself, which eventually culminated in a run-in with Abbott and Costello. Watch:

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