Ever since Antonio Banderas swished his last sword in 2005, Sony has been looking to reboot the Zorro franchise.

And while there is still no director or star attached to the project, writer Chris Boal (who hasn’t actually had any films released yet) has been hired to write the screenplay. Fun fact: while Boal is untested as a writer, he used to be a competitive fencer, so there’s that.

It’s believed that the new Zorro will move away from the previous cheesy, sun-drenched films, and be closer in tone to Christopher Nolan’s Batman films; going darker and giving Zorro a grittier backstory.

A couple of years ago I wrote about a rumour that the film would be based on a 2005 novel (simply called, Zorro) which portrayed the swordsman as the son of a Spaniard and a Native American, who joins a secret movement to fight against the oppression of his people. We’ll see…

But this project is not to be confused with a rival film being developed at Fox, called Zorro Reborn.

Darren Aronofsky's new take on the Noah story has been banned from several Middle East countries for its crime of contradicting Islamic law by portraying a prophet.

Censorship boards in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have told studio Paramount they will not allow the release of the film - starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly - with similar rulings expected in Kuwait, Egypt and Jordan.

In Egypt, the leading Sunni Muslim institute Al-Azhar issued a statement condemning the movie saying.

"Al-Azhar renews its rejection to the screening of any production that characterises Allah's prophets and messengers and the companions of the Prophet [Muhammad].

Noah is not just making waves in Islamic countries; Crowe's dark interpretation of the Biblical character has upset some Christian groups too.

There are two new versions of The Jungle Book being planned, each trying to get to cinemas before the other.

The first is a live-action/CGI effort from Disney, directed by Jon Favreau; the other a purely live-action deal which Warner Bros want Ron Howard to helm.

Right now, Disney is winning, thanks to having the director pinned down, and already being in stuck into casting.

British actor Idris Elba (best known for either Luther or The Wire, depending on how cool you are), has been cast as the voice of Shere Khan the tiger, and a galaxy of stars have been attached to the other voice parts, including Christopher Walken as Baloo.

There are few things I live more than unsubstaniated rumours about Steven Spielberg's to-do list. So, the rumour that The Beard is interested in remaking West Side Story has made me happier than a Russian soldier with a new cattle prod.

The director has expressed a desire to remake the 1961 movie, and while 20th Century Fox has previously turned away parties interested in the film, the fact it's Spielberg has got the studio very excited. It's unlikely he'll want to direct, but producing is a possibility.

The Last of Us won a host of `Game of the Year' awards in 2013 and looked more cinematic than a lot of films, so it's not surprising that the story is being given the movie treatment.

The Last of Us starred a smuggler called Joel, who had to escort a young girl named Ellie across a zombie-ridden United Stated, encountering challenges and different factions of survivors.

The game's creative director, Neil Druckmann, will write the screenplay for the movie, which is a departure from the usual way of doing game-to-film adaptations, normally any old hack is giving a notebook and a copy of the game and told to `do something the kids will like'.

It will be interesting to see just how much Druckmann reworks his original script, as the story already has superb characters, a solid three-act structure and a cracking storyline.

There's no director attached to The Last Of Us yet, and if other adaptations of massive games are anything to go by (Halo, Uncharted, Portal, Half-life), it could be a long time before anything concrete happens.