Shawn Levy (Real Steel) is one of the busiest guys in the business with about twenty-odd projects currently in different stages of development.  Now he can add Monster Problems to his list.  Paramount is in negotiations to pick up the spec script from Brian Duffield with Levy producing through his 21 Laps banner.  Monster Problems has been described as a John Hughes take on a Mad Max story, meaning it’s a post-apocalyptic road movie with a love story at its heart.  Hit the jump for more on Monster Problems, Levy and Duffield.

After taking some much-deserved time off following her Best Actress Oscar win for Black Swan and the birth of her child, Natalie Portman is beginning to line up a slate of upcoming projects.  She’s set to star in two new Terrence Malick films and she’ll return for Thor 2, and now she’s attached herself to star in and produce a wildly interesting project called Jane Got a Gun.  The film, described as a Western, was written by Brian Duffield and centers on “a woman whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She is forced to reach out to an ex-lover and ask if he will help defend her farm when her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.”  Hit the jump for more.