Film Casting: ALL EYEZ ON ME, HEART BABY!, Christopher Nolan directing DUNKIRK

All Eyez On Me, Heart Baby!, Dunkirk, and other films have made recent film casting, screenwriting, and director news. These films come from movie studios primarily based in the United States. The castings, screenwriters, and directors are subject to change.

All Eyez On Me

newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr. has landed the job of portraying the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur [in the] biopic All Eyez On Me.

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478 centers on [Arnold Schwarzenegger’s] character Viktor, a man whose wife and child die in a plane crash. Klaveno plays Eve Sanders, a sympathetic and highly trained airline representative who breaks the news to Viktor of his tragic loss.

Dunkirk

[Christopher Nolan] will direct “Dunkirk” from his own original screenplay as his next project.

The story is set during the legendary evacuation of the northern French city during WWII. Nolan and his casting department recently began testing teenagers in London for lead roles, but the director also wanted to nail down some choices for the few adult roles in the film before the holiday.

[Tom Hardy is rumored to be up for one of these lead roles.]

Heart Baby!

Gbenga Akinnagbe…has been signed for the lead role in writer-director Angela Shelton’s Heart Baby!…The new pic tells the true story of a convict named George Lee Martin who became infamous in the Tennessee prison system as an unbeatable boxer. When he is offered an opportunity at freedom in exchange for fighting for Team USA in the 1984 Olympic Games, he shocks everyone by saying no.

Shelton has been friends with [the] former convict for many years and followed him after he was imprisoned in the early 1980s for multiple armed robberies. Martin was given a compassionate release in the 1990s.

He is now working to set up his own boxing gym to get youth off the street and working towards a dream in his community. Shelton and the team behind Heart, Baby! set up a webpage to try to help him achieve that goal.

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