Monday, April 30, 2018

In Development

Fevre Dream: The talents of Rory Cochrane (The Outsider, Black Mass), Jill Marie Jones (Hear No Evil, "Ash vs Evil Dead") and Christopher Eccleston (Thor: The Dark World, Legend) will round out the cast of Cary Fukunaga's Fevre Dream, based on a novel by George R.R. Martin. Cochrane will play a man with dealings with Walton Goggins and Benedict Cumberbatch's characters, Jones will play a slave, and Eccleston will play the leader of a Civil War militia.

Sinkhole: Finn Wolfhard (Welcome to Paradise, Salem's Lot), Rooney Mara (Purgatorio, Carol) and Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys, Welcome to Paradise) have joined Derek Cianfrance's latest drama, Sinkhole, from writer Chad Taylor. Wolfhard will play a troubled teenager, Mara his young single mother, and Rice his love interest.

Detective James: Tia Carrere (Showdown in Manila, Gunshot Straight), Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau (Hickok, Den of Thieves), Angelique Cabral ("Life in Pieces", Friends with Benefits), Keiko Agena ("Gilmore Girls", Transformers: Dark of the Moon) and Keahu Kahuanui ("Teen Wolf") have all been cast, opposite Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk, as natives of the island the two TV actors find themselves shipwrecked on. Colin Trevorrow directs from a script by Jack Ryder.

Halo: ODST: Liev Schreiber ("Ray Donovan", Goon: The Last of the Enforcers), Laurence Fishburne (John Wick: Chapter 2, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) and Alan Tudyk (Trumbo, Welcome to Me) have joined Halo spin-off Halo: ODST as veteran members of the troop of soldiers at the center of the story. David Yates directs from a script by Dominic Wilkins.

Ringer: Bradley Cooper (Mass Effect: Cerberus, Burnt) is set to star in an upcoming sci-fi thriller from director Scott Derrickson (Dracula Lives, Share). Cooper will play a scientist working on teleportation technology for the government who accidentally clones himself. Bryan Cranston (Batman: Gotham Knight, Blood Meridian) has also been cast in the film as Cooper's military superior.

Hellraiser: Golden Reel Award winner John Malone has surprisingly written a remake/reboot of the Hellraiser series. Alice Englert ("Top of the Lake: China Girl", The Lovers), Sarah Paulson (The Post, "American Horror Story"), Matthew Goode (Allied, The Imitation Game) and Sean Harris (Macbeth, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation) have all been cast in the film. Englert will play Kirsty Cotton, the protagonist. Paulson will play her stepmother. Goode will play her uncle Frank, who seeks out the mysterious puzzle box that acts as a gateway to a hellish dimension. Sean Harris, meanwhile, has been cast as Captain Elliott Spencer, who becomes the famous Hell Priest, better known as "Pinhead". French horror director Pascal Laugier (Martyrs, The Tall Man) has been set to direct the film.

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