The Random - Van Damme & Vinnie Jones, Flow My Tears, Rachel Weisz, Takashi Miike, Kevin Spacey, Nicole Kidman, The Secret, The Gunslinger

- Jean Claude Van Damme and Vinnie Jones will play rival assassins in the action thriller Weapon for Flagship Films reports the trades. Jones will play a master sharpshooter while Van Damme's character is skilled with a knife. The two join forces to take down the head of a drug cartel who is backed by the DEA. Russell Mulcahy will direct

- The Halcyon Company (Terminator Salvation) picked up first-look rights to sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's estate in 2007. Now they've selected Dick's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said as the first of his works they intend to turn into a feature film says The Hollywood Reporter. Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, "Tears" is the tale of a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him.

- Rachel Weisz is loosely attached to play MGM icon Hedy Lamarr in Amy Redford's indie feature Face Value says The Hollywood Reporter. The Austrian-American actress garnered fame in the 1940s and was most famous for playing Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's "Samson and Delilah." In real life she was also an accomplished scientist who helped create a method of changing frequencies, a forerunner to modern wireless communications.

- Hanway Films will handle international sales on Takashi Miike's samurai pic Thirteen Assassins reports Variety. Based on Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film and set in the shogun era, the story follows thirteen assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

- Kevin Spacey has signed on to portray Jack Abramoff in the biopic Casino Jack reports Variety. Abramoff was a high-powered lobbyist whose bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos ultimately landed him in prison.

- Nicole Kidman will no longer be involved in Woody Allen's latest untitled project reports Variety. Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto co-star in the London-set project and plot details are unknown.

- Universal Pictures is set to adapt Mike Richardson's graphic novel The Secret into a major feature film reports Variety. The Dark Horse comic revolved around a group of high school students involved in a prank that goes horribly wrong, but puts a spin on the teen horror thriller.

- Warner Bros. Pictures has landed John Hlavin's revenge thriller spec script The Gunslinger says The Hollywood Reporter. "Gunslinger" follows an ex-Texas Ranger who will stop at nothing to find and punish the men who killed his brother and rescue his nephew.
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