· Another day, another Stillborn Ridley Scott Project to look forward to -- except this time the filmmaker is merely recycling his long-rumored Gucci as opposed to piling on anything new. This time around Scott is reportedly in talks with the also-spread-thin Angelina Jolie, who would play the role of fashion bride and eventual Gucci-killer Patrizia Reggiano. Fox 2000 wants this to roll next year, but there's no real script, and the restless Scott will likely wind up optioning another 10 ideas before a draft comes through. But go ahead and get excited; this would certainly be a good one, and the payoff on those 500-1 odds against it getting made could afford you a nice vacation. [Variety]
More musical mayhem from Paula Wagner, one of our Verge honorees breaks even bigger, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Also busy: Paula Wagner. The day after the superproducer took to the gossip pages to announce her planned Run-DMC stage musical, the trades extrapolated the news that she wants to adapt Miss Saigon for the screen -- with Precious director Lee Daniels. If you want to supplement that Gucci vacation of yours with a lovely time-share, this one's got early 750-1 odds of ever seeing the light of day. [BFDealMemo]
· Congratulations to our very first Verge subject Paul Rust, who is developing a sitcom with NBC about his experience working at a Wal-Mart in Iowa. Yet while it's meta enough to star Rust as himself, it's potentially unflattering enough to keep the chain's own name out of the series. "This is the beginning of a long-running career in which I base things on industries that could cripple me legally," Rust said in a report. Good luck, Paul! [Variety]
· ABC has placed a back-nine order with the producers of the darkly comic police procedural Castle, pledging a whole new barrel of secrets for star Nathan Fillion to paranoiacally shroud from his adoring, inquisitive public. [Variety]
· David Strathairn, Vanessa Redgrave and Monica Bellucci will chase Oscars with Rachel Weisz in The Whistleblower, starring the latter actress as a policewoman who risks her job and her life to expose a conspiracy between the United Nations and American contractors in postwar Bosnia. [Variety]