Here's your dose of film news for March 10, 2009:

• David Ayer is set to write and direct New Regency's "Last Man," a futuristic action flick in which a captain leads a group of young American soldiers into battle against aliens on a distant planet. Ayer last directed "Street Kings." (Variety)

• Leighton Meester ("Gossip Girl") is in talks to star in Christian E. Christiansen's thriller "The Roommate," about a college student whose new roommate goes nuts and starts targeting people in her life. Sonny Mallhi wrote the script. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Marcel Langenegger, director of "Deception," is set to develop "Mile Zero," a horror flick about a woman who takes a job on an Alaskan oil rig to prove her father's innocence in a bunch of murders. Holly Brix wrote the original screenplay. Milla Jovovich is attached to star in "Zero." (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Columbia is developing the big-screen adaptation of Robert Goolrick's upcoming novel "The Reliable Wife." The story follows a widower who searches for a reliable wife via a newspaper ad and ends up encountering a former courtesan with a hidden agenda. (The Hollywood Reporter)