Rudin Wants More Fun: Scott Rudin and Disney have hired John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to rewrite Hours of Fun, the story of two childhood friends who bought novelty toys from the back pages of comic books, and now 30 years later the toys start living up to their crazy advertising claims. We salute Daley, who seems like the only Freaks and Geeks alum to brave a career in Hollywood without juicing from the steroids of the Judd Apatow Comedy Complex. [HR]

Warner Digging Ditch: Warner Bros. has picked up The Ditch, a sci-fi action spec from music-video producer Sascha Penn (Dave Chappelle's Block Party). Story is set in the future, where one of Jupiter's moons has become a maximum-security prison for Earth's most dangerous criminals. When a prison guard's family is taken hostage, he must help a terrorist escape. We're left wondering why anyone would bother spending millions of dollars to set this on another planet in the future, but that's why nobody's paying us to be studio execs. [Variety]