Peregrine’s Home For Peculiars

Based on Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Peregrine’s Home For Peculiars has been adapted by Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class scribe Jane Goldman. And Tim Burton is going to be sitting in the director’s chair.

Given there’s more than one book, a franchise is presumably eyed here, but not too much is known about the first movie so far. The story will be about a teenage boy transported to an island where he has to protect a bunch of orphans with special powers from nasty things, but there’s been no casting news that we know of so far. The UK won’t get the film until August 19th.

Assassin’s Creed

It was The Expendables and District 9 that proved you could have a blockbuster success in August, and 20th Century Fox will certainly be hoping that’s still the case in 2015. That’s when it’s scheduled the Assassin’s Creed movie for, which has Michael Fassbender attached to it. Script work is well underway, but to the best of our knowledge, there’s no director on board yet, which suggests that that August date may yet be a bit flaky. Daniel Espinosa – of Safe House fame – has been linked, but that was back in January, and we’ve had no confirmation.

Still, UbiSoft is keen to get movie versions of its games going, so for the time being, August 7th remains the target date.

Inevitably, that schedule is set to change around a bit yet, and there are one or two films yet to snare a summer 2015 date. But that, as we know it, is the current line up.