Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed, Live!, 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.
Wilson
Judy Greer and Cheryl Hines have joined the cast of “Wilson,” starring Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern
The film, an adaptation of Daniel Clowes graphic novel directed by Craig Johnson (“The Skeleton Twins”), follows a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthrope named Wilson (Harrelson) who reunites with his estranged wife (Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter (Isabelle Amara) he has never met.
the film written by [Daniel Clowes]
Assassin’s Creed
Ariane Labed has landed the role in “Assassin’s Creed” opposite Michael Fassbender that was once earmarked for Alicia Vikander
Uncharted
Seth Gordon has exited “Uncharted,” Sony’s adaptation of the popular video game series
Sony chief Tom Rothman had been weighing the fate of the project since he took over the reins of the studio. Rather than slash the budget, he decided to take the project in a new creative direction, which prompted Gordon’s exit.
Mark Boal penned the most recent draft of the script
The Circle
Emma Watson is set to play the lead opposite Tom Hanks in James Ponsoldt’s next movie “The Circle”
Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”) adapted the novel written by Dave Eggers
Watson will play a young woman who’s hired for a big job in an Internet monopoly called the Circle, which links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. It’s there that she meets a mysterious older man, who will be played by two-time Oscar winner Hanks.
Miss Stevens
Lily Rabe (“American Horror Story”), Timothee Chalamet (“Interstellar”), Lili Reinhart (“Kings of Summer”), Anthony Quintal (“Lohanthony”) and Rob Huebel (“The Descendants”) are set to star in Julia Hart’s directorial debut “Miss Stevens”
Hart co-wrote the script with Jordan Horowitz
When high school teacher Rachel Stevens (Rabe) chaperones three of her kids (Chalamet, Reinhart, Quintal) on a weekend field trip to a regional drama competition, nothing turns out the way she thought it would.
The Last Race
Joseph Fiennes is set to star in The Last Race, an unofficial follow-up to multi-award winning Brit epic Chariots of Fire, that takes the story of Scottish runner Eric Liddell through the latter parts of his life. The film, to be directed by Stephen Shin and Michael Parker, will follow Liddell after his win at the 1924 Paris Olympics…to look at his life in China, where he worked as a missionary and died in 1945 in a Japanese internment camp.
the project…will shoot in China….with co-stars Xiao Dou, who will play Liddell’s friend and fellow prisoner Xu Niu. Elizabeth Arends also stars.
The Best Of Enemies
Taraji P. Henson is poised to reunite with that hit Fox show’s creator Danny Strong by playing the lead in The Best Of Enemies. That film will mark the directorial debut for Hunger Games producer Robin Bissell, who wrote the script.
Henson, hot from a freshman performance as the irrepressible Cookie Lyon, will play Atwater, the ferocious civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. She had a decade-long battle with sworn enemy C.P. Ellis, the Exalted Cyclops of Durham’s Ku Klux Klan. Their feud came to an abrupt and unlikely end in 1971. After a court-ordered school desegregation decree threw the Southern city into turmoil, Atwater and Ellis reluctantly agreed to co-chair an intensive, two week community meeting to try to reach a compromise. The extraordinary events that followed changed Durham, and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
Three Seconds
Josh Brolin and Maggie Gyllenhaal and “The Newsroom’s” Olivia Munn are in talks to join Luke Evans and David Oyelowo in the star-studded indie movie “Three Seconds”
Otto Bathurst (“Peaky Blinders”) is directing the film….adapted by Matt Cook and Rowan Joffe.
Gyllenhaal will play a FBI agent who has a history with Evans’ character, while Brolin will play her supervisor. Rising star Munn will provide the film’s heart and soul as Evans’ wife and the mother of his child.
Live!
Aaron Eckhart has been tapped to star in Live!, the action film from Solution Entertainment…This is the pic that second unit action directors/stunt coordinators Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen landed to make their directorial debut.
the Jeremy Drysdale script follows disgraced cop Kyle Penny (Eckhart) on his hunt to rescue the police commissioner’s kidnapped daughter, trapped somewhere in the city with only 80 minutes to live. With a deranged killer on his heels, Penny’s only hope is teaming with an ambitious young online reporter who films the wild chase live.
The Passing Season
Brian J. Smith…has signed on to star in The Passing Season, and indie drama from first-time director Gabriel Long…In the script by Long and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, Smith will play a pro hockey player whose career comes to an abrupt end. He returns to his hometown, reconnects with a group of high school friends, and attempts to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life. Patrick Murney (Public Morals), Gayle Rankin (Broadway’s Cabaret), Elizabeth Alderfer (The Good Wife) and Nick Choksi (Happyish) co-star.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Ezra Miller…is in early negotiations for the role of Jacob, the secondary male lead opposite Eddie Redmayne.
The character of Jacob may be a villain in the movie, although he could be just a rival to [Newt Scamander].
Shadows
20th Century Fox has struck for Jason Micallef’s red-hot pitch titled Shadows, which will be directed by Rio and Ice Age helmer Carlos Saldanha.
Shadows is poised to be Saldanha’s live-action debut.
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