Variety reports Universal has made a preemptive buy on a thriller pitch by scribe Daniel Noah. Daniel Bobker and Ehren Kruger will produce the high-concept crime drama for the U-based shingle, which is currently prepping ghost thriller Dream House for lensing later this year.Noah received low six figures to pen the script. Producers are keeping mum on the details about the story, which the scribe would only describe as a blend of genre movie elements with a character-driven drama.
Variety reports Maggie Gyllenhaal is in final talks to star opposite Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, the next installment in the revitalized Batman franchise. She'll play the role of Rachel Dawes, played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins. Holmes dropped out of the project earlier in the year.Nolan is set to begin lensing in the late spring or early summer. Pic is eying a summer 2008 release.

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