Mother’s Day, Unforgettable, Chanel Film, 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.
The Odyssey
Hugh Jackman is in early talks to star in a big-budget adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” that Francis Lawrence (“The Hunger Games” sequels) will direct for Lionsgate
Jackman doesn’t have a deal in place yet but has had multiple conversations with the filmmaking team about playing Odysseus, the hero of the film who embarks on a long voyage home following the conclusion of the Trojan War.
War Machine
Keith Stanfield has signed on to join Brad Pitt in Netflix’s political satire “War Machine”…Will Poulter (“The Revenant”) is also in talks to join the young ensemble cast.
Running Wild
Jason Lewis (Sex and the City) has taken the lead male role opposite Dorian Brown in Running Wild
The Final Service
Kieth Merrill will direct and rewrite the script for The Final Service…Focused on Sandy Richards, a 40 year old music teacher, the story follows her as her damaged familial relationship and unfulfilled dreams bring her to the brink of self destruction. An unexpected visit shakes the core of her belieges and changes her life forever.
Day For Night
Director Peter Bogdanovich has taken a central role in neo-noir Day For Night, from director Michael Chrisoulakis…written by Guy Jackson…Bogdanovich will play a mysterious hypnotherapist named “Vedor, PH.D”.
Behind the Curtain of the Night
Brendan Fraser [will be] playing a key role and Marcia Cross [will be] playing a character called ‘The Boss’ which is really God. Behind the Curtain of the Night, written/directed by Dalibor Stach, follows a boy who drowns when he is six years-old and has a near-death experience and then it happens again when he is 18 years old. In the five minutes that he is declared dead the second time, he sees his past lives from before he was born, and his future lives up until the year 3,012. When he comes out of it, he decides to write a book which becomes a best-seller in the Czech Republic … all of which actually happened to Stach.
The story is about reincarnation and also what happens after you die. Because of the reincarnation theme, Fraser plays multiple characters in the past as he finds himself in World War II through the present and future.
The rest of the cast of the film is pretty much international. It also stars Dawn Oliveri (House of Lies), Massimo Dobrovic (stars in the Italian version of CSI: Rome), Czech actor Bolek Polivka (portrays the male side of ‘The Boss’), and finally Czech actress Petra Buckova (mysteriously appears throughout the main character’s life and offers guidance).
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets
Luc Besson has set Clive Owen to star alongside Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Cara Delavingne (Paper Towns) in Valerian, the $180 million budget sci-fi film that is based on a comic series…Owen will play Commander Arün Filitt.
LBJ
Kim Allen (Army Wives, The Carrie Diaries) has signed on to portray Jackie Kennedy…in Rob Reiner’s upcoming feature LBJ
Jackie Kennedy, ever gracious, had to deal with quite a lot from LBJ, starting on the day her husband was murdered. In fact, LBJ was a hard man to like, according to those who knew him.
Jackie was the epitome of grace and revered by the nation for her show of strength after her husband’s death. Little did anyone know at the time, but she was also on sedatives during the funeral just to get through the elaborate ceremony.
Jungle Cruise
Disney…has tapped Dwayne Johnson to star. John Requa and Glenn Ficarra are penning the script for the pic
Lost City Of Z
Tom Holland [is] joining the cast of Lost City Of Z
Good After Bad
Melora Walters, Maddie Hasson and Billy Burke have been cast in Good After Bad, an indie from first-time feature director Anne-Marie Hess. The film follows the relationship between a bullied student, Shelly (Hasson), whose home life is in shambles, and a wealthy eccentric, Wes (Burke), with no friends and issues with women. Things take a turn when Wes offers to become the teen’s guardian. Walters will portray Shelly’s mother, Victoria, a former society type now feeling the aftereffects of years of hard living who is manic, off her meds and living with an alcoholic ex-con.
Hasson’s role as Shelly is a smart, attractive, high school outcast and aspiring song writer described as artistic, perceptive and vulnerable. Desperate for structure and a place to fit in, Shelly is very grateful when Wes comes into her life.
Sully
Holt McCallany will be flying the friendly (and heroic) skies alongside Tom Hanks in Sully…McCallany is playing Mike Cleary, President of the U.S. Airline Pilots Association who is an ally of Sully and an advocate for his courage and talent.
Chanel film
Kristen Stewart…will star in a film directed by designer Karl Lagerfeld for the French fashion house’s upcoming show.
The story, conceived by Lagerfeld, offers a fictional, behind-the-scenes look at a biopic in the making about founder Gabrielle Chanel
Stewart portrays an actress impersonating the designer as a young woman. Geraldine Chaplin, who has played Chanel in previous Lagerfeld films, is in the movie as well. Lagerfeld filmed the project last month in two days at director Luc Besson’s Paris studio.
Mother’s Day
Ella Anderson (Henry Danger) has joined the cast of Mother’s Day, opposite Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis and Kate Hudson. In the Garry Marshall-helmed pic that celebrates motherhood, Anderson will play Sudeikis’s daughter Vicky, who is celebrating only the memory of her mother.
Unforgettable
Cheryl Ladd is set to play Katherine Heigl’s mother in the Warner Bros feature Unforgettable, the directorial debut of producer Denise Di Novi. Heigl plays a newly divorced mother whose jealousy over her ex-husband’s new fiancee turns pathological. Geoff Stults, Isabella Rice, Simon Kassianides, Whitney Cummings and Robert Wisdom also star.
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