Wednesday, January 17, 2018

In Development

Six Billion Dollar Man: Rounding out the cast of Six Billion Dollar Man will be Willem Dafoe (Death Note, The Florida Project) and Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven, The Girl on the Train). Dafoe will play the doctor who created the titular cyborg played by Chris Pratt, while Bennett will play a nurse and Pratt's love interest. Daniel Espinosa directs from a script by Matt Parker.

Death and All His Friends: Zoe Saldana and Steve Buscemi have joined the cast of Death and All His Friends from writer Mo Buck and director Quentin Tarantino. Saldana will play one of the people forced to fight to the death, while Buscemi will play a villain.

American Playboy: Jesse Plemons (Blackwater, Libra), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Adam Scott (The Osterman Weekend, "Big Little Lies") have all signed on to join Andrew Garfield's Hugh Hefner in American Playboy. Plemons will play one of the co-founders of the magazine, Jones will play Hefner's first wife Millie, and Scott will play Playboy art director Art Paul. Damien Chazelle directs from Dwight Gallo's script.

Easy Money: Joining Robert Pattinson in the Safdie Brothers' Easy Money remake will be Michael Pena (War on Everyone, CHiPs), Cliff Curtis ("Fear the Walking Dead", Risen), Sharlto Copley (Free Fire, Hardcore Henry) and Rade Serbedzija (Velvet, The Promise). Pena will play an escaped convict who knows the cocaine business, Curtis will play Pattison's employer, Copley will play an enforcer for the Yugoslavian mob, and Serbedzija will play the head of the Yugoslavian mob.

Tumulus: Willow Shields (Into the Rainbow, A Fall from Grace), Jacob Tremblay (The Child Martyr, Planet LV 426) and Paula Patton (WarCraft, The Do-Over) will all join Keanu Reeves in the supernatural thriller Tumulus. Oona Lawrence and Jacob Tremblay will play Reeves' kids, while Patton will play Reeves' love interest, a local school teacher. David Slade directs the Clive Steinbeck-penned film.

Hawkman: No decision yet on the title character, but Sean Bean (The Job, The Martian) and Simon Baker (Margin Call, Breath) have joined the cast of the Len Wiseman directed Hawkman. Bean will play the film's villain Dr. Anton Hastor, while Baker will play a colleague of the main character named Professor James Rock.

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