The Dlisted Report

Dianne Houston (Take the Lead) will write a biopic on the life of rapper Missy Elliot for Universal Pictures. Robert De Niro has hopped on board as a producer. Born in Portsmouth, VA, in 1971, Elliott began her musical career with the girl group Sista. She then segued to a producing career before breaking out as a solo artist more than 10 years ago. [Variety]

Henry Rollins will star in the sequel Wrong Turn 2. Rollins plays a host and producer of his own reality TV show titled "The Ultimate Survivalist," which features six contestants who will be thrown together for six days in a simulated post-apocalyptic wasteland. Located in a remote part of West Virginia, the contestants discover that they really are in a fight for survival against a family of hideously deformed, inbred cannibals. [THR]

Director Dennis Dugan (Big Daddy) will reunite with Adam Sandler on I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The film will star Sandler and Kevin James (Hitch, The King of Queens) as two straight firefighters who pose as a gay married couple in order to qualify for their department's domestic partner benefits. Written by Alexander Payne and James Taylor, the movie is scheduled to hit theaters on July 20, 2007. Shooting will begin this August in Los Angeles. [Production Weekly]