Today's Film News: Bob Marley Singin' To No One

By Katey Rich

Looks like we could have another Diablo Cody on our hands. Brad Ingelsby, a 27-year-old living with his parents in Pennsylvania, has sold his script The Low Dweller to Relativity Media, with Ridley Scott attached to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio to star. Variety points out the script's similarity to No Country for Old Men, as a dark drama about a man released from jail who is forced to avenge his brother's murder. Scott and DiCaprio are apparently hoping to finish the film before the potential SAG strike in June, and Ingelsby, if his script is what they say, might hope to be polishing his Oscar this time next year.

Turns out you can be too popular after all. Bob Marley, who will be the subject of both a forthcoming documentary and a feature film about his life, may not be able to lend recordings of his voice to either project. (Well, his estate won't be able to, since Marley is dead.) The Hollywood Reporter has all the dirty legal details, which basically amount to the producers behind the documentary pressuring the owner of Marley's music, Blue Mountain Music, not to sell the music to the Weinstein Company, which is producing the biopic. The president of the music publishing company said he'd like the biopic to be delayed until 2015. That's pretty territorial, but you don't think Harvey Weinstein is gonna fight back? This whole thing could get even uglier in no time.

Comedy fans far and wide can rejoice today: Some of the best names in the business have signed on to be part of Ricky Gervais' comedy This Side of the Truth. Variety reports that "30 Rock" creator and comedy goddess Tina Fey, Best in Show creator and mockumentary god Christopher Guest, "Daily Show" correspondent and "PC" from the Apple ads John Hodgman, and "Arrested Development" star and Bluth patriarch Jeffrey Tambor will all join the comedy, about a man who learns to tell lies in a world where everyone tells the truth.

And finally, Michael Bay has a new cohort in his efforts to destroy the legacy of every horror movie ever made. Jared Padalecki, of TV's "Supernatural" and House of Wax, will star in the remake of Friday the 13th planned for release, of course, on Friday, February 13th, 2009. The new film, according to the Reporter, will focus on the serial killer Jason, while Padalecki will play an investigator. It's unclear how close the new film will actually resemble the original, given that Jason was only a bit role in the 1980 film.