-- DONNER PARTY Producer Lauren Shuler Donner (X-Men 2) has a new superhero in her sights: Keanu Reeves, who is attached to replace Nicolas Cage in Warner Bros.' Constantine, based on DC imprint Vertigo's Hellblazer comic series. Shuler Donner is also nudging along other pet projects, including an adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Secret Life of Bees, which David Gordon Green (George Washington) will write and direct after finishing Miramax's A Confederacy of Dunces. And of course, there's the possibility of X-Men 3. ''I'm already thinking about it,'' Shuler Donner admits. X-Men director Bryan Singer isn't contractually obliged to helm a third, but the producer says, ''I'd be thrilled if he would.''
-- EASY DOES IT Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind's nonfiction account of the directors who came to fame during Hollywood's drug- and sex-fueled '70s, is becoming a movie. Director Ken Bowser is editing the documentary about a time, he says, ''when everybody was stoned, and everybody was doing cocaine.'' While many of the people written about in the book, including Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Fonda, are participating, Bowser wasn't able to snag Robert Altman. ''Altman said, 'Who cares who we were sleeping with and what drugs we were doing?''' Bowser recalls. ''I restrained myself from saying 'Everybody?'''
-- FURTHERMORE In other comic-book news, Selma Blair has been cast opposite Ron Perlman in the adaptation of Hellboy... According to director Jonathan Demme (The Truth About Charlie), he and Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster may reunite for what Demme describes as a '''50s-style sci-fi movie.''
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