Monday, April 2, 2018

In Development

Sisters: Willow Shields (Tumulus, A Fall from Grace), Timothy Olyphant ("Justified", "Santa Clarita Diet"), Jon Voigt (Same Kind of Different as Me, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) have signed on to appear in Chan-wook Park's Sisters. Shields will play the teenaged daughter of Jason Sudeikis and Eva Green, Olyphant will play a detective, and Voigt will play Sudeikis' father.

Purgatorio: David Harbour (Displacement, Salem's Lot), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Maria, "Game of Thrones", Annette Bening (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, 20th Century Women) and Ian McShane (The Creature, Into Thin Air) have signed on to appear in Purgatorio, the sequel to Inferno. Harbour will play the Biblical Cain, McShane will play King Midas, Brodie-Sangster will play Abel and Bening will play the Virgin Mary's cousin Elizabeth. Tom Tykwer directs the film from a script by Mo Buck.

Hated: The Ballad of GG Allin: Joining Tom Hardy in Todd Phillips' GG Allin biopic will be Michael Shannon (The Informers, Gorky Park), Juliette Lewis (Nerve, Jem and the Holograms), Ben Foster (Hell or High Water, Halo 2) and Jake T. Austin (Blue Beetle, "The Fosters"). Shannon will play Allin's religious survivalist father, Lewis will play Allin's mother, Foster will play Allin's fellow musician brother Merle, and Austin will play a teenage GG Allin.

A Farewell to Arms: Claire Foy ("The Crown", Jack the Ripper) and Lorenzo Richelmy ("Marco Polo", The Third Half) have signed on to join Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan in Joe Wright's A Farewell to Arms. Richelmy will play a friend of Gyllenhaal's, while Foy will play a friend of Mulligan's. Chad Taylor wrote the script based on Ernest Hemingway's famed novel.

The Question: Dark Tomorrow: Ryan Gosling (The Question, The Fountainhead), Christina Hendricks (Last Rites, The Question) and John Malkovich (The Question, Bullet Head) are all set to return to the sequel to the Season 2 hit superhero film, The Question. Nicolas Winding Refn and D.R. Cobb are also returning as director and writer of the film.

Strangers Friends: Billy Crudup (Justice League, Alien: Covenant) and Morena Baccarin ("Gotham", Deadpool) are set to star as a married couple in the drama/comedy from director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch). The film tells the story of a dinner party that turns into an uncomfortable game.

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