Thursday, March 29, 2018

In Development

Hawkeye: Nick Blood ("Babylon", "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD") and Rob Morgan ("Daredevil", "Stranger Things") will reprise their roles of Lance Hunter and Turk Barret from Marvel's television universe in the Jeremy Renner-led Hawkeye. They will also be joined by Tempestt Bledsoe ("Guys with Kids", N-Secure). Justin Lin directs from a script by Jack Ryder.

True West: Meryl Streep (The Post, Florence Foster Jenkins) and John Turturro (Transformers: The Last Knight, Hands of Stone) have joined Matthew McConaughey and Bradley Cooper in the John Wells-directed, Dwight Gallo-penned adaptation of Sam Shepard's famed play. Streep will play McConaughey and Cooper's mother, while Turturro will play a Hollywood producer.

Sisters: Bella Heathcote (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, The Neon Demon), Jason Sudeikis (Downsizing, Colossal) and Eva Green (Based on a True Story, "Penny Dreadful") have signed on to join Elle and Dakota Fanning in Chan-wook Park's film about the Papin sisters. Heathcote will play the other Papin sister who was estranged, while Sudeikis and Green will play a couple the sisters work for.

Purgatorio: After its Most Wanted Sequel win at the 3rd Golden Reel Awards, Inferno finally has a sequel on the way. James Franco (The Disaster Artist, Inferno) and Tom Hiddleston (Inferno, American Outlaws) will return as Dante and Virgil in Purgatorio. They will be joined by Rooney Mara (Carol, Song to Song) as the Virgin Mary. Tom Tykwer returns behind the camera and Mo Buck returned to write the script.

Hated: The Ballad of GG Allin: Coming off of his Best Actor win at the 3rd Golden Reel Awards, Tom Hardy (The Prisoner, Without Remorse) has finally found his next big role: that of infamous punk rocker GG Allin. The film will cover his childhood and rise to infamy as the the musician known for his shocking behavior such as attacking audience members, self-mutilation and even coprophagia. Todd Phillips (War Dogs, The Hangover), who directed a documentary on Allin while in college, will direct the film from a script by Billy Armstrong (Welcome to Paradise).

A Farewell to Arms: Jake Gyllenhaal (Batman: Gotham Knight, V) and Carey Mulligan (The Price of Fame, Mudbound) will headline a new adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms from director Joe Wright (And Then There Were None, Darkest Hour) and writer Chad Taylor. The film tells the story of an American paramedic serving in the Italian Army who falls in love with an English nurse during World War I.

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