Sutherland and Fonda, together again? Is it...

Sutherland and Fonda, together again? Is it “Klute 2”? Not quite, but the last names are the same: Kiefer Sutherland and Bridget Fonda prepare for an October start on Robert Lawrence/Imagine Entertainment’s “A Kiss Before Dying.” The James Dearden adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel (previously filmed in 1956) explores a relationship that turns into a chilling nightmare when Fonda suspects Sutherland’s a psychotic killer. Dearden directs for producer Lawrence and release by Universal. . . .

Robin Williams portrays the real-life Dr. Oliver Sacks in Columbia’s “Awakenings,” filming in NYC in September. Sacks’ experimental work with bringing relief to catatonic encephalitis victims forms the basis of Steve Zallain’s script. Robert De Niro co-stars as a patient for director Penny Marshall and producers Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. . . .

Add Nova International’s “Wings of the Apache” in October to Nicolas Cage’s busy schedule. Arnold Kopelson and Keith Barish exec-produce the story of a joint U.A. Army-DEA operation to smash a drug ring linked to terrorist activity. The “Apache” of the title is the military’s modern attack helicopter. Paul Edwards wrote the script and David (Buster) Green directs on locations in California and Arizona. . . .

Cage will precede “Apache” with Propaganda Films’ dark romantic thriller, “Wild at Heart,” for writer-director David Lynch. He’ll co-star with Laura Dern, playing a couple on the run, with disapproving mom Diane Ladd, (Dern’s real-life mom) in pursuit. Also cast: Harry Dean Stanton and, in a cameo, Willem Dafoe. It films locally next month, later in Texas. . . . Cage follows in February with Electric Pictures’ “Adios, Thierry,” a romantic triangle co-starring Judge Reinhold and directed by Sam Pillsbury. . . .

C. Thomas Howell stars as a young lawyer who gets hooked on competitive volleyball in Tri-Star’s “Side Out,” filming in Los Angeles in August. David Thoreau and Brianne Leary’s screenplay finds Howell frustrated at work and consumed in a “Rocky”-like quest with a former volleyball ace to win a national championship. Commercials director Peter Israelson makes his feature debut for producer Gary Foster. . . . In January, Howell starts Douglas Productions’ “Good Friends,” a dramatic saga of friendship between two contemporary rock musicians. Scott and Paul Schorr produce and wrote the screenplay. . . .

The tempestuous, tragic relationship between playboy Harry Crosby and Josephine Rotch forms the basis of Eagle/Zalon Productions’ “Fire Princess,” an October start to film in Poland and Venice, Italy. Eric Roberts and Jennifer Jason Leigh star in Rebecca Kalin’s script about the 1929 sex scandal. Alan Bridges directs for producers Rene Ash and Gila Zalon. . . .

Elizabeth Pena joins Tim Robbins in Carolco’s “Jacob’s Ladder,” shooting in Manhattan and later North Carolina beginning in September. Bruce Joel Rubin’s screenplay centers on a man involved in hallucinogenic drug-testing during the Vietnam War, who experiences his future, involving Pena, under the influence. Alan Marshall produces and Adrian Lyne directs.