Tuesday, May 29, 2018

In Development

Uncharted: Rodrigo Santoro ("Westworld", Ben-Hur) and Edi Gathegi ("StartUp", Aloha) have joined the video game adaptation Uncharted, directed by Brad Peyton and written by APJ. Both will appear in a villainous capacity as henchman/archaeologist Atoq Navarro and pirate Eddy Raja respectively.

Bonnie and Clyde: JK Simmons (Whiplash, The Price of Fame), David Tennant (Bad Samaritan, "Jessica Jones"), Will Poulter (Detroit, Maze Runner: The Death Cure) and Jennifer Jason Leigh will round out the ensemble cast of the Michael B. Jordan and Elizabeth Olsen-led Bonnie and Clyde re-telling. Jason Leigh will play Bonnie Parker's (Elizabeth Olsen) mother, while Simmons, Tennant and Poulter will play law enforcement. Taika Waititi directs the film from a script by Chad Taylor.

Carmilla:
Steven Soderbergh's upcoming horror/mystery Carmilla has added Damian Lewis ("Billions", Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory), Katheryn Winnick ("Vikings", Masters of the Universe) and John Goodman (Cape Torment, "Roseanne"). Goodman will play a vampire expert, Lewis will play Lucy Boynton's father, and Winnick will play the mother of the mysterious Carmilla (Lili Simmons). Jack Slipter wrote the script.

La Resistance: Timothee Chalamet (Home Again, Cyrano de Bergerac), Jean Dujardin (The Artist, The Wolf of Wall Street) and Gwyneth Paltrow (Mortdecai, Iron Man 3) will join the already cast Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard in Morten Tyldum's WWII drama from writer Mo Buck. Dujardin will play Cotillard's husband and Chalamet will play their son, while Paltrow will play Cotillard's sister.

Mass Effect 2: Following the detour of Mass Effect: Cerberus, writer Seth Overton (Mass Effect: Cerberus, Fevre Dream) and director Rian Johnson (Mass Effect, Looper) are back with a sequel to the first film. Also returning will be cast members Henry Cavill (Justice Leage, Paradise Lost), Tom Hardy (Hated: The Ballad of GG Allin, Thr Prisoner), Alicia Vikander (Dishonest, Tomb Raider), Mads Mikkelsen (The Question, Blood Countess) and Dominic Purcell (Mass Effect, "Prison Break").

Perfect Blue: Writer Roy Horne will make his debut with thriller Perfect Blue, based on the anime. Mark Pellington (Nostalgia, I Melt With You) has signed on to direct after a difficult directorial search. The cast will be led by Elle Fanning (Home Again, Sisters) and Malin Akerman ("Billions", Rampage). Fanning will play a pop star trying to make the jump into acting when she begins to lose her sense of reality when she becomes the victim of a stalker. Akerman will play her agent, a former pop singer herself.

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