Sunday, December 31, 2017

In Development

Planet LV 426: The cast of Alien spin-off Planet LV 426 from director Anthony Russo and writer Carl Flimmer is now complete. The film has added Charlie Hunnam (The Lost City of Z, Pacific Rim) and Jack O'Connell (The Job, Money Monster) in the last key roles in the film. Hunnam will play a doctor in the colony, while O'Connell will play a soldier.

Atlas Shrugged:
Cary Fukunaga continues to assemble an all-star cast for his adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. January Jones ("The Last Man on Earth", Good Kill) has been cast as Lillian Rearden, wife of Hank (Ben Affleck). Edgar Ramirez (Paradise Lost, Birth of Frankenstein) will play Francisco d'Anconia, owner of the world's largest copper mining operation. Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water, Kong: Skull Island) will round out the cast, playing Wesley Mouch, a treacherous lobbyist who becomes the nation's Economic Dictator.

The Secret History:
Freddie Highmore ("Bates Motel", "The Good Doctor"), Alex Wolff (My Friend Dahmer, Patriots Day) and Ewan McGregor ("Fargo", American Pastoral) have joined the cast of Ang Lee's The Secret History. Highmore will play Chloe Grace Moretz's twin brother, Wolff will play a member whose country home becomes a hangout for the group, and McGregor will play the group's charismatic Classics professor.

Zombieworld: Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Father Figures), Nina Dobrev ("The Vampire Diaries", xXx: The Return of Xander Cage) and Suki Waterhouse (The Bad Batch, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) have all joined David Ayer's latest film, Zombieworld. Rhames will play the billionaire founder of the theme park, while Dobrev and Waterhouse will play guests at the park.

Silver Surfer: After a couple of DC Comics films, Last Resort Films now has its sights set on the characters of Marvel Comics. Silver Surfer will be the first such film. They have hired special effects whiz Robert Stromberg (Malificent) to direct and have cast Keanu Reeves (John Wick, Knock Knock) in the lead role as the Silver Surfer himself.

Inferno: Last Resort Films has officially greenlit the ambitious Inferno for production. The film is the first in a planned trilogy based on The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri. Tom Tykwer (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The International) will direct the Mo Buck penned project, while James Franco ("The Deuce", The Disaster Artist) and Tom Hiddleston (I Saw the Light, Kong: Skull Island) will lead the cast. Franco will play Dante, who must journey through the realms of the dead. Hiddleston will play Virgil, Dante's guide.

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