Sunday, May 20, 2018

In Development

Dead Space: Emily VanCamp (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, "Revenge"), Kevin Zegers (Aftermatch, The Curse of Downers Grove), Karen Fukuhara (The Beatles, Suicide Squad) and Wilmer Valderama ("From Dusk till Dawn: The Series", "NCIS") have all joined the ever-growing ensemble of director David Ayer's video game adaptation Dead Space. Ben Collins wrote the script.

Shake Hand with the Devil: Bennett Miller's upcoming film about Rwandan genocide has added Don Cheadle (Avengers: Infinity War, "House of Lies"), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Missoula, The Prisoner), Daniel Kaluuya (Dino Crisis, Get Out) and Thandie Newton ("Westworld", Solo: A Star Wars Story) to its cast. Dominic Wilkins wrote the script based on the life of UN Colonel Romeo Dallaire (Liam Neeson).

Uncharted: Bryan Cranston (Ringer, Batman: Gotham Knight) and Kevin Costner (Molly's Game, Hidden Figures) have joined Ryan Reynolds and Brie Larson in the upcoming adventure film Uncharted. Cranston will play Reynolds' treasure hunter mentor, while Costner will play the film's antagonist. Brad Peyton directs the video game adaptation from a script by APJ.

Bonnie and Clyde: Michael B. Jordan and Elizabeth Olsen will have company in Taika Waititi and Chad Taylor's imaginative version of the story of Bonnie and Clyde. Jesse Plemons (American Playboy, Blackwater), Letitia Wright (Black Panther, "Humans") and Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, The Killing of a Sacred Deer). Plemons will play Clyde's brother, Wright will play Plemon's wife, and Keoghan will play a member of the Barrow gang.

Carmilla: Steven Soderbergh has signed on to direct his first film for the studio, the period horror/mystery Carmilla, based on the 1872 novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The story is about a young woman who believes she is being preyed upon by a vampire. Lili Simmons (Demons, Eclipse), Lucy Boynton (Murder on the Orient Express, "Gypsy") and Woody Harrelson (The Wolf Man, LBJ) have signed on to star. Jack Slipter (The Fog) wrote the script.

La Resistance: Gary Oldman (Inferno, Darkest Hour) and Marion Cotillard (Assassin's Creed, Allied) will star in the upcoming World War II drama, La Resistance, from writer Mo Buck (Cape Torment, Purgatorio) and director Morten Tyldum (Passengers, The Imitation Game). Oldman will play a charismatic Nazi general, while Cotillard will play a French woman who takes part in a resistance movement.

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