Here's your dose of film news for April 28, 2009:

• Pierre Morel, director of "Taken," is set to helm Paramount's upcoming untitled Tokyo thriller, which Frank Baldwin is writing. Accoring to Variety, the plot follows a CIA operative who is ordered to embark on a final mission before his retirement. Baldwin also wrote a remake of "The House of Flying Daggers."

• Universal is gearing up to remake "Drop Dead Fred" with Russell Brand attached to star. Writing the new version is Dennis McNicholas, who co-wrote "Land of the Lost." In the original, Phoebe Cates played a young woman who's reunited with her imaginary friend after returning to her parents' home. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Don Johnson is the latest to join Nick Swardson, Stephen Dorff and Christina Ricci in Tom Brady's "Born to Be a Star," a comedy Adam Sandler co-wrote and is set to produce with Jack Giarraputo. The plot follows a nerd (Swardson) who discovers his quiet parents were famous porn stars during the 1970s. Johnson plays a porn director. (THR)

• Total Film recently talked to Christian Bale and asked him about a sequel to "The Dark Knight." Bale said, "Will we do a third movie? It's got to be the right story. You can't make something like 'The Dark Knight' and then come out with something disappointing."

• Martin Freeman, known for his role in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” has signed on to star in Debbie Isitt’s British comedy “Nativity,” Variety reported earlier today. The film follows two English schools competing for the best nativity play.

• Actor Don Johnson returns to the big screen in “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” and Disney’s family comedy “When in Rome,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Over the past years, the actor was busy starring on TV’s “Nash Bridges.”

• The Hollywood Reporter says Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and Eva Longoria are just a few celebrities to show up in “Teenage Paparazzi,” a documentary by Adrian Grenier about this relationship with a young paparazzo.

• Imagi Intl. is moving ahead with “Tusker,” a computer-animated tale about an elephant’s adventure in India. The project was initially in development at DreamWorks Animation but got cancelled in 2005 (Variety).