Sharon Stone and Valeria Golino join Andrew...

Sharon Stone and Valeria Golino join Andrew McCarthy in John Frankenheimer’s political thriller, “The Year of the Gun,” which will shoot in Rome this October. The Edward R. Pressman production concerns the paranoia that took place in Italy during the Red Brigade’s 1978 reign of terror. David Ambroise wrote the screenplay from a Michael Mewshaw novel.

Kelly Lynch will star opposite Rosanna Arquette in “The Linguine Incident,” a quirky comedy written by Tamar Brott and Richard Shepard to be directed by Shepard in October in L.A. and New York. David Bowie and Marlee Matlin also star. Arnold Orgolini, Sarah Jackson and Richard Gagnon produce for Linguine Productions.

Eartha Kitt has the title role in Mikrofilm’s “Medea,” which will film in Mexico and L.A. in January. George Pouros will produce and direct Kent Smith’s screenplay, which concerns a production of Euripides’ classic play put on by Catholic monks in the New World in the 16th Century to educate the natives; the natives see the story quite differently. Judd Nelson plays an aspiring stand-up comic whose career takes off when a third arm inexplicably grows in the middle of his back in Backward Films’ “The Dark Backward.” Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, Lara Flynn Boyle co-star and James Caan performs a cameo in this dark comedy produced by Brad Wyman and written and directed by Adam Rifkin. Filming gets under way in L.A. this month.

Nicholas Kallsen of Fox TV’s “Glory Days” joins Peter O’Toole and Navin Chowdhry in Orbit Entertainment’s “Worlds Apart,” an adventure tale revolving around a treasure hunt currently shooting in Israel under the direction of Dror Soref .

Eric Roberts will star in Shooter Prods’ “Midnight Sun” (a.k.a. “Burning Bridges”), a murder mystery about a New Yorker caught up in a fast Hollywood crowd. The film, produced by Kandice and Lance King from a script by Max Strom and John Allen Nelson, gets under way in L.A. and Malibu Oct. 29.

Invisible Hollywood: Several Invisible Man projects are heading for the big screen, although none is based on H. G. Wells’ classic tale. George R. R. Martin is writing a futuristic love story/drama based on the theme of invisibility for Wild Street Pictures, which producer/director Brian Yuzna plans to put into production in October or November. Warner Bros. has set Chevy Chase to star in its “Memoirs of an Invisible Man,” which will go into production late this year or early next. Meanwhile, at Columbia, Doug Wick’s Red Wagon Prods. has Don Jakoby one of the writers on “Arachnophobia,” penning an untitled screenplay involving invisibility.