Sunday, April 14, 2024

In Development

 
The ComeBack: Violet McGraw (Vampire, Amityville), Toby Jones (Germinal, At the Mountains of Madness), Irina Starshenbaum (Shoshana, Dark Satellites) and Jimmi Simpson (Nightwing, The Starling Girl), Oleg Taktarov (Splinter Cell, Rocket Red) are set to complete the cast of writer Jack Ryder's long-awaited return to LRF screens, the buddy cop action/comedy The ComeBack. Ruben Fleichser is directing the film, which is being headlined by the duo of Charlie Cox and Brandon Routh.

The Crow: Midnight Garden: Rounding out the cast of the third Crow film from LRF will be Cara Buono (The Nest, Camp Manhood), Jon Bass ("Miracle Workers", Plus One) and Peter Greene (Tesla, City of Lies). Buono will play the wife of Brendan Fraser's character, Bass will play a sex offender who crosses paths with both the detective played by Fraser and the latest incarnation of the Crow play by Sophie Thatcher, and Greene will play a police officer dying of cancer. Nathalie Biancheri directs from a script by Jack Brown.

A German Tragedy: Also completing its casting is A German Tragedy, a theater-themed film from writer Wyatt Allen and director Noah Baumbach, with the additions of Geoffrey Rush (Birth of Frankenstein, Storm Boy) as the owner of a theater and Sophia Bush (The Life Ahead, Riot Love) as the ex-girlfriend of the main character played by Adam Driver.

Starkweather: Will Patton (Atlantis, Halloween Ends), Molly Ringwald (Amityville, The Kissing Booth), Chris Zylka (Grayson, Novitiate) and Lochlyn Munro ("Peacemaker", Apex) have all joined the latest true crime film from writer Lon Charles. Patton and Ringwald will play the parents of Caril Ann Fugate, Munro will play a Nebraska sheriff, and Zylka will play the first victim of the crime spree. Sean Durkin directs the film.

In Five Years: Bel Powley (Stained, The Pull of te Stars) and Nicholas Braun (Good Marriage, Kazaria) have joined In Five Years, an adaptation of the novel by Rebecca Serle. Braun will play one of the love interests of the main character, played by Daisy Ridley, while Powley will play Ridley's best friend. Sally Potter directs the film from an adaptation by Rosie JoLove.

Connected: Halle Bailey (The Color Purple, The Little Mermaid), Ethan Hawke (Floyd Monroe, The Devil's Revenge) and Aaron Pierre (Thorne, Foe) have signed on to join Sofia Coppola's latest directorial effort, Connected, set in the world of game streaming. The film was written by Jacob Jones.

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