Today's News: BARRRdem setting sail for Neverland soon?

Here's a little scoop from MovieScene:

http://www.moviescene.nl/p/151709/javier_bardem_wordt_mogelijk_blackbeard

Another live-action version of Peter Pan, eh? In fact, there's two in the works at the moment, including this one. If you've got Bardem as your bad guy you've certainly got the upper hand though. His talent for screen villainy has been well documented with both Skyfall and No Country for Old Men, the latter being rewarded with a properly deserved Oscar. So if the deal gets made, poor Peter Pan is in for quite a fight squaring off against Bardem's Blackbeard. Can Bardem beat Ian McShane's Blackbeard - from the haphazardly confusing yet half-decently entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - in terms of grotesque appearance and evil scheming though? Possibly, but there's a good chance Pan will at least be more consistent and well rounded than that film. What concerns me more in that regard is the writing for this movie, which is currently being scribbled down by Jason Fuchs, who has already displayed an interest for piracy in the dismal Ice Age: Continental Drift. Fuchs hasn't yet shown himself to be a talented writer, so there's still plenty of chances the movie will fall short in that department. If there's any failures involved, it's very likely we won't be able to attribute them to Bardem.

On a sidenote, this is another example of me posting a bit of 'unfinished news'. After all, Bardem hasn't been confirmed for Pan yet, he's still in talks to assume the mantle of the notorious pirate captain. You get this a lot when you're looking for news to post. Rumours, uncomfirmed casting, etc., it's all part of the business but can feel frustrating for readers and writers alike when a deal does not get struck, or projects get scrapped entirely. You often wonder what the result was about certain bits of old news you remember hearing about once and when you look them up again, there's just no additional information because much has changed about the project in question and it's now another project entirely. Recent examples include the casting of the second Avengers film, where certain actors were rumoured for a role months before actually signing on (in which case you have to post both the rumour and the actual confirmation, at the risk of introducing a sense of déja vu for your readers), or the increasing and decreasing cast levels for Jurassic World, which recently witnessed several fairly high profile casting rumours that ended up debunked as quickly as they popped up (including such names as Josh Brolin and Idris Elba, and now Jason Schwartzmann). Such irritating elements all come with the territory of posting film news, though I myself at least try to wait for studio confirmation instead of responding solely to rumours. Sometimes that means I miss news as others beat me to it, but on other occasions it means I don't post anything that eventually ends up going nowhere.