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Charles Randolph is reteaming with Adam McKay for his latest project. The Bombshell screenwriter, who wrote Oscar-winner The Big Short with McKay, has joined HBO's vaccine drama series. He will write and exec produce the series, which is in development at the premium cabler. The project was first revealed by Deadline…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has acquired film rights to David Kushner's Vanity Fair article "The Church of the Living Dangerously," with Christian Bale attached star and produce. Script will be written by Charles Randolph, who shared an Oscar with Adam McKay for scripting the Bale-starrer The Big Short, as well as the Jay…

SK Global (Crazy Rich Asians, Hell or High Water) will finance and produce Oscar winner Charles Randolph's (The Big Short, Bombshell) screenplay. It’s being called the Untitled Wuhan Project, and examines the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to become a global…

There were far more important things than trophies to be concerned about last night at the WGA Awards as scribes on both coasts were consumed with the guild’s upcoming talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and of course, the possibility of a strike. In speaking with a number of…

Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph will receive the WGA West's Paul Selvin Award in recognition of his script for Bombshell, the dramatic retelling of the sexual harassment scandal that brought down Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It will be presented at the 72nd annual Writers Guild Awards’ L.A. ceremony on…

Bombshell tells the story of the sexual harassment claims Fox News anchors Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and other newsroom reporters filed against Roger Ailes (John Lithgow). Screenwriter Charles Randolph and producer Margaret Riley spoke about the film recently with Deadline's Mike…

Lionsgate brought the disturbing and the funny to Deadline’s Contenders today with a look at Bombshell and Knives Out. Producer Margaret Riley said the Bombshell script blew her away. "As a woman who has come up in Hollywood, I realized there had never been a movie about sexual harassment." "We have all had to deal…

Big Short Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Charles Randolph is adapting Katrina's Brooker's upcoming W.W. Norton book about controversial real estate corp WeWork for both Blumhouse and Universal. Book focuses on the intertwined lives and ambitions of Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, and Adam Neumann, CEO of WeWork, the…

Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, screenwriter Charles Randolph and director Jay Roach filled the stage of the DGA Theater earlier this month during Lionsgate’s session at the ninth Annual Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles event in Hollywood. The occasion, in front of a packed house of…

When Charlize Theron — the driving force as producer and star of Bombshell — sought a director to capture the plight that ambitious women faced in a sexist Fox News culture fostered by creator Roger Ailes, the easy choice would have been a woman. Instead, she chose Jay Roach, helmer of the Austin Powers and Meet the Pa…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Greene has been added to the robust, all-star cast of the Jay Roach’s yet-to-be-titled Fox News project about the women who fought against network boss Roger Ailes and his toxic male culture. Greene is set to play former Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman. Penned by Academy Award-winning screenwriter…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Allison Janney will play trailblazing feminist lawyer Susan Estrich in Annapurna’s untitled Charles Randolph project about the women who took on Fox News kingpin Roger Ailes and the toxic male culture at the network. Author and liberal commentator Estrich, who was the first female President of…