Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the latest project getting the Hollywood train run on it.  Last week, it was a version starring Keanu Reeves from the director of Bronson, with a passing mention of Guillermo Del Toro also working on a Jekyll/Hyde project. Today comes news of yet another, this one starring 50 Cent and Forest Whitaker. Sources say the version will be more “urban,” and with more “flava,” and “bigger penises.”

[Bad Lieutenant director] Abel Ferrara is taking another walk on the wild side with a re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” which will be contemporized and titled “Jekyll and Hyde.”  Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson are attached to play the lead roles. [Variety]

No word yet on who’s playing what, but I could easily see Fiddy as Dr. Jekyll.  He drinks the potion, loses vision in one eye, then blacks out, and when he awakens later, he has nine mysterious gunshot wounds.

“Whoa.”

Universal is developing a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie, a project which requires above all else a lead with some versatility. Naturally they chose Keanu Reeves.

Universal is developing a modern retelling of the classic novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” with Keanu Reeves attached to star and Justin Haythe, writer of “Revolutionary Road,” penning the script. Nicolas Winding Refn [writer/director of Bronson] is in negotiations to direct the project, titled “Jekyll.” [THR]

In the original story, Dr. Jekyll invents potion that brings out a different personality when he drinks it.  Sources at Universal say the biggest challenge they face in development will be creating the potion and getting it to work.