Gargoyles: A Tale Old as Time: More familiar faces are set to return to the world of Gargoyles with Melissa George (Captain America, Carpenter) back as Demona and Josh Pence (Lost Planet, Gargoyles) back as Owen Burke. One new face to the action-fantasy world will be Iain Glen (Norse: Valhalla, Green Arrow 2: Hunters) who has been cast as MacBeth in the film. Gore Verbisnki directs from a script by Wesley Campbell. HG Hansen produces.
Love, Death, Revolution: Madelaine Petsch (Batgirl, Bunker 17), Cameron Monaghan (Gamera, Flames) and Rosamund Pike (X-Men: Hellfire, Zero Hour) have all signed on to the French Revolution romance starring Kiernan Shipka and Joseph Quinn. Monaghan will play a young revolutionary, Petsch will play his sister, while Pike will play the mother of Shipka's character. Garth Davis is in the director's seat, working from a script by Ben Collins.
Phantasm: Awakening: After an extensive worldwide search, Canadian character actor Christopher Heyerdahl ("Van Helsing", Togo) have been cast as the famed Tall Man in this new reboot of the Phantasm film franchise. As the villain of the film, the Tall Man controls an army of otherworldly slaves derived from the corpses of humans. Also joining the film will be Lulu Wilson (The Wrath of Becky, Planet LV 426) as female lead, a teenager with a psychic connection to the events of the story. David Robert Mitchell is directing the film alongside JJ Abrams as producer. John Malone and Roy Horne teamed up for the first time on the script.
Captain America: Winter's End: Glen Powell (Wolfenstein, Gears of War 2), Willa Fitzgerald (Captain America, Resident Evil 3) and Paul Mescal (Solace, The Beauty) are all set to be back as Steve Rogers / Captain America, Sharon Carter, and James Buchanan Barnes in an upcoming sequel to Captain America. This film, subtitled Winter's End, will feature Barnes being used as a brainwashed assassin by a rogue Hydra agent who has taken over a small South America island to use as the base of operations for an attack against SHIELD. Tom Burke (Crowley, Furiosa) has already been announced as the primary villain, Baron Zemo. Peter Berg (Captain America, Rainbow Six) is back as director for this Marvel Universe production, once again working from a script by D.R. Cobb (Captain America, Wonder Woman: Labyrinth).
Mr. Happy: Jesse Plemons (The Life Survey, Gas Bar Blues) has been cast in the lead role in Mr. Happy where he will play a depressed man who hires a hitman to kill him just before he meets a young woman who reignites his will to live. Adele Exarchopoulos (Shatterhand, Batman: Knightfall) will play that woman. Huro Mirai ("Atlanta", Guava Island) will direct the film from a script by Wyatt Allen (The Life Survey, A German Tragedy).
Escape: Reese Witherspoon (Saving Yemen, Idlewild Ranch) is set to star in the lead role in a film based on the life of Carolyn Jessop, a woman who fled with her children from their lives in the cultish confines of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church. Harrison Ford (Willamette), Al Pacino (The Scam of Success, Broadway), and Jade Pettyjohn (Guy on the Fly, Written By Jason) have also all signed on to the film. Ford will play Carolyn's commanding husband, Merrill. Pacino will play the leader of the church, Rulon Jeffs. Pettyjohn, meanwhile, will play Carolyn's oldest daughter who has been promised as the newest wife of Jeffs, which prompts the escape of the title. David Fincher (The Dogs of Winter, Heights) has agreed to direct the film, which been penned by Lon Charles (The Diplomat, Starkweather).
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