Saturday, November 25, 2017

In Development

A View from the Bridge: Al Pacino has signed on to re-team with director Francis Ford Coppola for the first time since The Godfather series. He will play Alfieri, a neighborhood lawyer, in A View from the Bridge.

The Last of Us: Angus Macfayden (We Bought a Zoo, "Turn: Washington's Spies") and Callum Keith Rennie ("Californication", The X-Files: I Want to Believe) will round out the cast of Rupert Wyatt's adaptation of the hit video game. Macfayden will play a smuggler who owes main character Joel a favor, while Rennie will play an arms dealer who screws over Joel in a deal.

The Job: Joining Guy Ritchie's ensemble hesit film will be Stephan James (Race, Selma), Sean Bean (The Martian, "Game of Thrones") and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Headhunters, "Game of Thrones"). James will play a former Marine, Bean will play a member of the heist who specializes in crowd control and Coster-Waldau will play a cop on the group's trail.

White Jazz: Jessica Biel (Invisible Monsters, "The Sinner"), John Krasinski (13 Hours: The Secret Soliders of Benghazi, Aloha) and Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Choice) have all joined Brad Pitt in the Andrew Dominik-directed 1950s crime film. Biel will play an actress who becomes romantically embroiled with Pitt's character. Krasinski will play detective Ed Exley and Walker will play Pitt's partner.

Hiroshima: Steven Spielberg continues to add to the supporting cast of his historical drama. He has cast Masato Harada (The Last Samurai, Fearless), Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy, "The Walking Dead"), Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Jason Patric (The Losers, The Yellow Birds) in supporting roles. Harada will play Japan's civilian prime minister, Serkis will play a nuclear physicist working on the bomb, Rooker will play a general and Patric will play the director of the Manhattan Project.

Skin Tight: Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa, "Goliath") and Kevin Durand (Fruitvale Station, "The Strain") have joined David Dobkin's Skin Tight. Thornton will play the primary villain, a criminally inept plastic surgeon trying to cover up a botched surgery that resulted in a patient's death and Durand will play a deformed 7-foot-tall hitman Thornton hires to kill Vince Vaughn's character when he starts sniffing around.

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