Film Casting: UNCHARTED, ASSASSIN’S CREED, Aaron Eckhart in LIVE!

The Best Of Enemies

Taraji P. Henson is poised to reunite with that hit Fox show’s creator Danny Strong by playing the lead in The Best Of Enemies. That film will mark the directorial debut for Hunger Games producer Robin Bissell, who wrote the script.

Henson, hot from a freshman performance as the irrepressible Cookie Lyon, will play Atwater, the ferocious civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. She had a decade-long battle with sworn enemy C.P. Ellis, the Exalted Cyclops of Durham’s Ku Klux Klan. Their feud came to an abrupt and unlikely end in 1971. After a court-ordered school desegregation decree threw the Southern city into turmoil, Atwater and Ellis reluctantly agreed to co-chair an intensive, two week community meeting to try to reach a compromise. The extraordinary events that followed changed Durham, and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

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Three Seconds

Josh Brolin and Maggie Gyllenhaal and “The Newsroom’s” Olivia Munn are in talks to join Luke Evans and David Oyelowo in the star-studded indie movie “Three Seconds”

Otto Bathurst (“Peaky Blinders”) is directing the film….adapted by Matt Cook and Rowan Joffe.

Gyllenhaal will play a FBI agent who has a history with Evans’ character, while Brolin will play her supervisor. Rising star Munn will provide the film’s heart and soul as Evans’ wife and the mother of his child.

Live!

Aaron Eckhart has been tapped to star in Live!, the action film from Solution Entertainment…This is the pic that second unit action directors/stunt coordinators Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen landed to make their directorial debut.

the Jeremy Drysdale script follows disgraced cop Kyle Penny (Eckhart) on his hunt to rescue the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, trapped somewhere in the city with only 80 minutes to live. With a deranged killer on his heels, Penny’s only hope is teaming with an ambitious young online reporter who films the wild chase live.

The Passing Season

Brian J. Smith…has signed on to star in The Passing Season, and indie drama from first-time director Gabriel Long…In the script by Long and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Smith will play a pro hockey player whose career comes to an abrupt end. He returns to his hometown, reconnects with a group of high school friends, and attempts to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life. Patrick Murney (Public Morals), Gayle Rankin (Broadway’s Cabaret), Elizabeth Alderfer (The Good Wife) and Nick Choksi (Happyish) co-star.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Ezra Miller…is in early negotiations for the role of Jacob, the secondary male lead opposite Eddie Redmayne.

The character of Jacob may be a villain in the movie, although he could be just a rival to [Newt Scamander].

Shadows

20th Century Fox has struck for Jason Micallef’s red-hot pitch titled Shadows, which will be directed by Rio and Ice Age helmer Carlos Saldanha.

Shadows is poised to be Saldanha’s live-action debut.

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