Film Casting: LEGO BATMAN, GHOSTBUSTERS, Andy Muschietti directing IT

The Foreigner

Martin Campbell is in talks to direct the now untitled film that will star Jackie Chan…This is the one that had been called The Foreigner, based on the Stephen Leather novel The Chinaman. It will get a new title.

[Jackie Chan] will play a humble restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who is forced to push his moral and physical boundaries to track down the group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his beloved daughter after the justice system fails him. The book was adapted by David Marconi and Peter Buchman.

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47 Meters Down

Santiago Segura…has Landed a supporting role in 47 Meters Down. The drama focuses on two sisters vacationing in Mexico. When the cable supporting their shark cage breaks, the pair find themselves trapped on the ocean floor, surrounded by a school of sharks. Segura will play Benjamin, one of the young locals who takes the girls out to sea. Starring Mandy Moore and Claire Holt, it’s directed by Johannes Roberts

Ripped

Russell Peters and Faison Love have teamed up to star in the stoner buddy comedy Ripped…Directed by Brad Epstein from a screenplay written by Epstein and Billiam Coronel, the film has also cast Alex Meneses

The Land

Rafi Gavron (Snitch) has joined the cast of The Land…Gavron will portray the character “Patty Cake,” the oldest and toughest of the group, described as a smooth talking ladies man who has already fathered a child, but is the most immature of the group. The film also stars Moises Arias, Michael K. Williams and Jorge Lendeborg.

Spider-Man

John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein are in early talks to pen the relaunch of Sony’s Spider-Man franchise.

The new story is due to be set in high school with John Hughes one of the watch words for the tone.

Brain On Fire

Carrie-Anne Moss and Richard Armitage are joining the cast of Gerard Barrett’s Brain On Fire opposite Chloe Grace Moretz.

Brain on Fire is currently in production in Vancouver and set for release in 2016. Moss (The Matrix) and Armitage (Captain America) will play Susannah’s parents, Tom Cahalan and Rhona Nack.

The Birth of A Nation

Chiké Okonkwo…has been cast in Nate Parker’s The Birth of A Nation.

Okonkwo plays a brutalized slave who becomes a freedom fighter and ally to Turner (Parker) during the rebellion. Prompted by religious visions, Turner and a band of about 70 slaves killed between 55 and 65 people in Virginia. The rebellion was stopped after two days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months.

Parker is producing and directing from his own script.

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