Film Casting: BELKO EXPERIMENT, I.T., Alicia Vikander in ASSASSIN’S CREED & BOURNE 5

I.T.

Michael Nyqvist has joined the cast of I.T., the indie revenge thriller that Pierce Brosnan is toplining…He joins a cast that’s shaping up to be a good one, with Brosnan, Stefanie Scott, James Frechville and Anna Friel already aboard.

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The original script was written by Dan Kay and Bill Wisher, with Moore and Wisher doing the rewrite.

Nyqvist…will play a mysterious fixer who helps Brosnan’s character save his family and bridge the gap between the digital and analog worlds.

The Girl On The Train

Tate Taylor (The Help) is returning to DreamWorks to direct the NY Times bestselling novel, The Girl On The Train…Erin Cressida Wilson…[is] adapting

The Hitchcockian thriller, the latest in a recent line of complex female protagonists, is about a young woman who becomes entangled in a murder investigation because of what she witnesses on her daily commute. Rachel, who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

Boston Strong

Boston turned out to be too strong for Daniel Espinosa.

The director, who is coming off the major box office disappointment of Child 44, has fallen off of Boston Strong, the drama based around the events of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Central Intelligence

Aaron Paul is in negotiations to join the cast of Central Intelligence

Paul will play Dwayne  Johnson’s CIA partner who seemingly sacrifices himself for Johnson.

Tink

Reese Witherspoon…is attached to star in and produce Tink, a live-action take on the classic Peter Pan character Tinker Bell.

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Victoria Strouse…is penning the script for the project, which does not have a director on board and is still in development.

Insiders say it will play with the idea and the timeline of the well-known Peter Pan narrative. It is also being developed in the vein of Maleficent

Strange Ones

Thomas Ian Nicholas, Clare Kramer, Hunter Gomez and newcomer Kelly Arjen will star in Brian A. Metcalf’s independent horror/drama “Strange Ones”

Metcalf is…directing from his own script in which an abused high school girl (Arjen) accidentally conjures forth a demon — played by Nicholas — that decides to take revenge on those who wronged her.

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Source: Deadline, Hollywoodreporter