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Morgan Creek Productions wants to corral all those “Young Guns” left standing after the climatic shoot-out for a sequel, currently titled “Hellbent for Leather.” While Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko’s characters all died, negotiations are under way to sign survivors Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland. Since production is scheduled to get under way in January, when weather could be a problem, location scouting is going on in Arizona and Texas as well as New Mexico, where the original film was shot. . . Arnold Kopelson and Keith Barish will produce “The Fugitive,” a $30-million film version of the 20-year-old TV series for Warners. Production is four to six months off as rewrites of David N. Twohy’s script are being done. Sources indicate that British director Stephen Frears (“Dangerous Liaisons”) and actor Harrison Ford are among those being approached about the project. . . . Meanwhile, Twohy is writing “Aliens III” for Fox. . . .

Isabella Rossellini joins Bruce Willis in the caper film, “Hudson Hawk.” Michael Lehman (“Heathers”) directs the Joel Silver production for Tri-Star. The film rolls March 1. . . .

William Hurt and Alec Baldwin have signed aboard Woody Allen’s fall project for Orion. The film, which, as usual, is untitled, started filming last week. Woody has left himself out of the cast, but Mia Farrow is in. . . David Carradine stars as a preacher, and former porn star Tracy Lords plays the eldest of his five daughters in Eyefilm’s “Prey, for the Wicked.” Production on this dramatic thriller with religious overtones, written by John M. Bell and directed by Rick Eye, begins in January. Image will distribute. . . .

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Lewis B. Chesler, executive producer and creator of pay-TV’s “The Hitchhiker,” has purchased film rights to 1963 Japanese novel, “The Lady Killer” by Masako Togawa, a highly controversial and erotic thriller that dealt with role of women in that society. Screenwriter Robert J. Avrech (“Body Double”) will adapt the book, and Carl Schenkel (“The Mighty Quinn”) will direct. “Crimson Cabaret,” the title of the film version, will film in Japan and possibly Hong Kong this spring. . . .

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