Girl/Girl: Alden Ehrenreich (Death Dream, To the White Sea) and Chris Messina ("The Mindy Project", Live by Night) have signed on to director Eliza Hittman's romantic drama Girl/Girl. Messina will play Grace van Patten's father, while Ehrenreich will play Ana de Arma's troubled boyfriend. Chad Tayor wrote the script.
Grand Theft Auto: The highly anticipated video game adaptation Grand Theft Auto is certainly lining up quite the cast with the additions o Robert Duvall (Wild Horses, The Judge), Selena Gomez (A View from the Bridge, Neuromancer), Kyle Chandler (The Question: Dark Tomorrow, Death Dream) and Ray Winstone (The Question, Point Break). Harry Wright wrote the script, while the Safdie brothers will direct.
Deprogramming: Antonio Campos' latest drama has added Melissa Leo (Snowden, The Most Hated Woman in America) and Clayne Crawford (Spectral, "Lethal Weapon"). Leo will play the head of a cult awareness company and Crawford will play an associate of the deprogrammer played by Casey Affleck. Lon Charles wrote the script.
High Society: Writer James Morgan is back to the science fiction genre after the success of his Season 3 film Into Thin Air. This time around he has written an intriguing sci-fi thriller set on a far away planet. Michael B. Jordan (Dishonest, Black Panther), George Clooney (Money Monster, Tomorrowland) and Angelina Jolie (By the Sea, Maleficent) will lead the cast. Jordan plays a man kept alive after an accident by an experimental procedure. Clooney will play the CEO of a major company that has essentially built most of the infrastructure on the planet, while Jolie will his wife. George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet Two) has signed on to direct the project.
Survivor: Ryan Gosling (The Question: Dark Tomorrow, The Fountainhead) and Rooney Mara (Sinkhole, Purgatorio) will star in an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's controversial novel Survivor. David Fincher (Gone Girl, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will direct the film. Gosling will play the last surviving member of a cult that has committed mass suicide who is thrust into culture as a celebrity, while Mara will play a psychic he strikes up a friendship with. D.R. Cobb took a break from Splinter Cell and The Question to write the script.
Be More Chill: Chad Taylor has penned an adaptation of the sci-fi musical comedy Be More Chill which has hired Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) to direct. Lucas Hedges (The Hunt, Amelie), Pete Davidson ("Saturday Night Live", Trainwreck) and Keanu Reeves (Silver Surfer, Tumulus) will lend their services to the film. Hedges and Davidson will play two high school friends, while Reeves will voice SQUIP, or Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor, that becomes implanted in peoples' brains.
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