Jungle Cruise and The Shallows director Jaume Collet-Serra might be getting into the superhero game. The Observer reports that Warner Bros. and New Line are considering the director for Black Adam, and that the filmmaker is said to be their top choice. Variety has their own report, saying that the director is in negotiations for the film and has been the top pick since Collet-Serra teamed with star Dwayne Johnson and producer Beau Flynn on Disney's Jungle Cruise film. (Update: THR is coming in even hotter with a hard-confirm.) Johnson has been attached to star as …

A remake of the sports movie Victory is on the way via an unlikely source. Per The Wrap, The Shallows and Non-Stop filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra is onboard to direct Warner Bros.'s remake of director John Huston’s 1981 sports drama Victory, which starred Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, and Pele. The story revolves around a soccer match during World War II between allied POWs and the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris. The POWs must decide whether to try and escape, or work to defeat the Nazis on the national stage, thus humiliating them … The post ‘The Shallows’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra to Helm Sports Movie Remake ‘Victory’ appeared first on Collider.