For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

Adam Shankman, director of the upcoming Adam Sandler comedy Bedtime Stories, has signed on to direct two new projects – Disney’s Bob the Musical and The 8th Voyage of Sinbad, which will be his biggest film yet in terms of budget and scope.

Bob is a musical comedy to be produced by Benderspink’s Chris Bender and JC Spink and Contrafilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson. It was written by Mike Bender and follows a mild-mannered man who suddenly hears the “inner song” of people’s hearts after being struck in the head.

The project reunites Shankman with Marc Shaiman, his composer for Hairspray and the recent internet video, Prop 8: The Musical. Shaiman is writing the music and lyrics for Bob.

Sinbad, Columbia’s retelling of the classic myth, centers on sailor Sinbad and his crew, who are marooned off the coast of China and embark on a quest to find the Aladdin’s lamp. Along the way they meet a beautiful empress and do battle with fantastic creatures and a rebellious Chinese general who threatens the kingdom.

Cormac and Marianne Wibberley wrote the most recent script draft. The writing team’s other credits include The 6th Day, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and the two National Treasure flicks.

Both projects have been stuck in development hell, with Mark Waters (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Mean Girls) previously on board to direct Bob and both John Singleton and Rob Cohen at one time attached to helm Sinbad, with Keanu Reeves and Vin Diesel in the lead role.

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