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

The Huntsman

Sam Hazeldine has booked a role in Universal’s The Huntsman

Blade Runner 2

Roger Deakins has been tapped by director Denis Villeneuve to be cinematographer on Alcon Entertainment’s Blade Runner sequel

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk has found its squad of beleaguered Iraq War veterans. Filling the ranks of Bravo Squad: Arturo Castro (Broad City), who will play “Mango”; Barney Harris, who will play “Sykes”; Beau Knapp, who plays “Crack”; Mason Lee, who plays “Foo”; Brian “Astro” Bradley, who plays “Lodis”; and Ismael Cruz Cordova, who plays “Holiday”. In addition, Makenzie Leigh (The Slap) will play Faison, a Texas cheerleader and love interest to main character Billy Flynn.

Independence Day 2

Patrick St. Esprit has joined the cast of 20th Century Fox’s science fiction sequel Independence Day 2. He’ll play Secretary of Defense Tanner, reporting to the US President (played by Sela Ward).

Conner4real

Tim Meadows has joined the cast of Conner4real, about a rapper (Samberg) whose album bombs and leaves him with little career choice other than to re-form his old boy band. Meadows will play Harry, Connor’s constantly upbeat and overworked manager.

Jack Reacher 2

Paramount and Skydance are in negotiations with The Last Samurai team of Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz to rewrite Richard Wenk’s script for Jack Reacher 2

Wenk (The Equalizer) wrote the original draft, which Zwick and Herskovitz will take on next.

Assassin’s Creed

Bourne 5

The Circle

One of the hottest Cannes pic packages–the Tom Hanks-Alicia Vikander-starrer The Circle–is in the process of being reconfigured…The Danish actress is in talks to star in two major new tent poles: Assassin’s Creed…and the new Jason Bourne picture opposite Matt Damon with Paul Greengrass directing.

Vikander is likely to drop off the Tom Hanks starrer The Circle…IM Global head Stuart Ford has made an offer to Harry Potter star Emma Watson to play the young female lead.

[The Circle]…written and directed by James Ponsoldt…[would have had] Vikander…play a young employee at a tech company called The Circle, who gets involved with a mysterious man