Legacy: James Gandolfini. James Gandolfini will always be remembered as Tony Soprano, yet the masterful character actor's sudden death leaves us with a number of projects set to be released posthumously, some of which may now get a larger release. The 51-year-old actor had been working prodigiously during the past few years. He was seen recently in the Oscar-winner Zero Dark Thirty and in Killing Them Softly, written and directed by Australia's Andrew Dominik. While the '60s coming-of-age drama Not Fade Away, which re-teamed him with Sopranos creator David Chase, probably won't escape its straight-to-DVD fate, Gandolfini completed work on two other films yet to be released. Gandolfini showed his romantic side in Enough Said. As Catherine Keener's former husband, he is pursued by another divorcee, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. His final film was, appropriately, a Brooklyn crime drama titled Animal Rescue, starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace. In the story about a lost pit bull, a wannabe scam artist and a killing, Gandolfini plays a bar owner. Bone Wars, a project co-starring Steve Carell, was only in the early stages of development, so we will never see the pair as rival 19th-century palaeontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. Thanks for the memories Hollywood is again eyeing your treasured memories from youth to see what else it can charge you good money to see, Dr Frankensteined beyond recognition. Remember the video game Asteroids? Transformers and G.I. Joe producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has it in development. It's not a disaster movie, yeah. If we're successful at getting it made, it's much more of a space opera," he told Screen Rant this week. It's like a great sci-fi movie if we get it done right. It is not at all what people think it is. People think, 'Oh, the asteroid's gonna hit the Earth,' and I have no interest in doing that. That's been done exceedingly well before. No, this takes place in an asteroid belt, the whole movie. If you're less sci-fi-inclined, you may be more intrigued (or terrified) by Encyclopedia Brown, the film adaptation of the popular children's books. The boy detective, with real name Leroy Brown, friend Sally Kimball and nemesis Bugs Meany, is coming to the big screen from Roy Lee, the producer of The Lego Movie and the remakes of Battle Royale and Oldboy, which tells us almost nothing about the style of the movie. Finally, one childhood treasure saved. Rick Moranis, who has a new comedy album out, spoke to Heeb magazine about the sequel to Spaceballs that never was. Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II never happened only because he and Mel Brooks couldn't agree over money.