Free Fire, Akira, All I See Is You, 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.
Untitled WWII movie
Brad Pitt has been looking for a lover for his next WWII movie and he has finally found one in Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, who’s in negotiations to join him in the untitled period film that Robert Zemeckis is directing
Steven Knight wrote the script
Pitt and Cotillard will play assassins who fall in love during a mission to kill a German official. They soon marry, but their romance is cut short when Pitt is told that his wife is a double agent working for the German government and he must kill her.
Akira
Warner Bros…has hired “Daredevil” writer Marco Ramirez to adapt the popular Japanese manga
Free Fire
Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age Of Extinction), Sam Riley (Malevolent) and Noah Taylor (Edge Of Tomorrow) have all joined the cast of Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire. Sharlto Copley (District 9), Brie Larson (21 Jump Street), Armie Hammer (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders), Michael Smiley (The Lobster), Enzo Cilenti (Guardians Of The Galaxy) and Babou Ceesay (Eye In The Sky) round out the cast.
Some Are Born Great
Michael Mitnick…is set to jump behind the camera for the first time, sealing a deal to make his feature directorial debut with Some Are Born Great
The plot is being kept quiet, but the movie is a contemporary comedy in the vein of Groundhog Day.
Rupture
Michael Chiklis has joined the cast of Rupture, the Steven Shainberg-directed sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace
The pic centers on a single mother (Rapace) struggling to raise her 12-year-old son alone who is abducted by a mysterious organization. Tied up in their lab, they question her about her medical history, eventually revealing that she has a genetic abnormality that her worst fear can cause her to “rupture” — causing her own alien nature to be released. It’s based on a story by Shainberg and Brian Nelson, and Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days Of Night) wrote the screenplay.
Chiklis will play The Bald Man, the entity’s powerful point man who directs the mother’s violent capture.
Independence Day 2
William Fichtner has taken a lead role in Independence Day 2. Actually, he has signed with Fox to play a top general in that film and take an even larger role in the two films that will follow. Bron Studios
Henchman
James Marsden, Thomas Middleditch, Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina, Nathan Fillion, Jane Krakowski, Rob Riggle, Craig Robinson and Will Sasso will lend their voices to the pic, about a band of blue-collar workers at the Union of Evil who must come together to save the world.
Connor4real
James Buckley will make his U.S. feature debut in Connor4real…Buckley will play Sponge, a member of Andy Samberg’s entourage.
Shot Caller
Evan Jones has joined the cast of Shot Caller for writer-director Ric Roman Waugh…Jones will play Chopper, a PEN1 gangster and confidant of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
The Painter
Peter Heller’s novel The Painter is packaging up with The Fighter scribe Paul Tamasy writing the script and Gabriela Cowperthwaite directing…The Painter focuses on a famous artist with a blinding temper who returns to a quiet life after serving time for shooting a man in a Sante Fe bar. That is until he sees a hunting guide beating a small horse, and the artist soon finds himself on the lam, suspected of murder.
Christine
Timothy Simons has joined Rebecca Hall and Michael C. Hall in director Antonio Campos’ indie drama “Christine,” which chronicles the final months of a depressed news broadcaster who infamously committed suicide on live television in the 1970s
Simons will play Steve Turner, the news station’s foppish weatherman, who is friendly with Christine.
Love Letters to the Dead
Catherine Hardwicke is in talks to direct another YA phenomenon, Ava Dellaira’s “Love Letters to the Dead”
Dellaira adapted her own debut novel, which was published in April 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. The story follows a teenage girl named Laurel who’s assigned to write a letter to a dead person for her English class. She chooses her late sister’s favorite musician, Kurt Cobain, who also died young. Inspired by the cathartic assignment, she sets out to fill a notebook with letters to dead celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Judy Garland and Amelia Earhart, among others. The letters help Laurel process her feelings and grief surrounding her older sister’s sudden and mysterious death.
Fist Fight
Ice Cube and Charlie Day are in talks with New Line Cinema to climb in the ring for Fist Fight, a comedy from scribes Van Robichaux and Evan Susser.
The pic is in the tone of the ’80s cult hit Three O’Clock High but a grown-up version: Day plays a mild-mannered English teacher who is put to the test when one of his colleagues (Ice Cube) who thinks he is trying to get him fired challenges him to a fist fight after school.
Update
Collateral Beauty
Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara will star and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will make this his follow-up directing effort to the Sundance favorite.
The plot centers on a New York advertising executive who experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined.
Collateral Beauty’s script is written by Allan Loeb.
The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter
Josh Brolin and Danny McBride are set to star in The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter…Jody Hill is directing a script he co-wrote with McBride and John Carcieri.
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