Hollywood Ink: Ridley Scott Attached to Another Film

· Let's hear it for Ridley Scott's publicists, who keep the man in the news almost daily via quasi-historical Web projects and vague attachments to half the movies in the development cycle. This time it's The Wolf of Wall Street, the onetime Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio drama that Sopranos/Boardwalk Empire writer Terrence Winter adapted from Jordan Belfort's riches-to-rags memoir. Scorsese reportedly ditched it in favor of directing Shutter Island, but he and DiCaprio remain linked to produce, with the latter to star. Which will still probably never happen, but hey. [Deadline]

Denzel Washington goes south, Little Mermaid goes live-action, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Denzel Washington is in talks to join Safe House, Universal's developing thriller about a young intelligence agent in South America who must flee with a prisoner (Washington) when his safe house is besieged. [Vulture]

· Joe Wright (Atonement, The Soloist) is said to be in talks to direct a live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. More than even the original Hans Christian Andersen tale or Disney's beloved animated film, Wright and his screenwriter Abi Morgan were reportedly inspired by the puppet version currently occupying the stage at the Little Angel Theater Company -- which, coincidentally or not, Wright's father founded. Small world, etc. [Deadline]

· Like so many American travelers often do, Jane Fonda will repress her bad memories of France and return for another visit. There, she'll shoot Et si on vivait tous ensemble (And If We All Lived Together), Stephane Robelin's film about "five old friends who decide to move in together to avoid going to a retirement home." Wow. Wow. Where's Roger Vadim when you need him? [Variety]

· Craig Zobel is in talks to follow up his dandy 2007 debut Great World of Sound with Fox's comedy The Litigator, about a slacker attorney who winds up outmatched when he represents a man wrongfully accused of murder. [Fox]