Tuesday, August 28, 2018

In Development

Damned Ship: Rounding out the cast of Adam Wingard's latest directorial effort, Damned Ship, will be Bella Thorne (You Get Me, "Famous in Love"), Ashley Rickards (The Outcasts, "Awkward") and Max Irons (Metal Gear Solid, "Condor"). Thorne and Rickards will play fashion models, while Irons will play a student of Jeremy Davies. Ben Collins wrote the script.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent: With Tom Cruise and Laurence Fishburne already set to return for the fourth film in the Splinter Cell series, now some new players have joined the series. Woody Harrelson (The Wolfman, Carmilla), Holt McCallany ("Mindhunter", Monster Trucks) and Morena Baccarin (Dark Places, Strangers Friends) have all signed on to appear in the film. Harrelson will play the leader of a domestic terrorist organization, with McCallany as his head of security. Baccarin will play the organization's weapons expert. Yann Demange is directing the film from a script by D.R. Cobb.

The Banded Ants 3 - Showdown: The new voices that will be heard in this Banded Ants trilogy capper will be from Mark Strong (La Resistance, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory), Charlize Theron (Numero Uno, Atlas Shrugged) and Scarlett Johansson (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Avengers: Infinity War). Strong will voice an ant king, Theron will voice an ant queen, and Johansson will voice a wasp.

Crowley: Tom Hardy (Numero Uno, Hated: The Ballad of GG Allin) is set to portray famed occultist Aleister Crowley in this biographic film. Nicolas Winding Refn (Cat People, The Question: The End) will direct the film from a script by Lon Charles (Bad Education, Deprogramming).

Eleanor & Park: Writer H.G. Hansen (Looking for Alaska, Dark Places) is back with another young adult adaptation, this time Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park. Chloe Grace Moretz (The Secret History, Brain on Fire), Ryan Potter ("Titans", "Supah Ninjas"), Bruce Campbell ("Ash vs. Evil Dead", The Escort) and Malin Akerman (Perfect Blue, "Billions") have all been cast in the project. Moretz and Potter will play two high school outcasts who strike up a relationship. Akerman will play Moretz's mother, while Campbell will play her abusive stepfather. Richard Linklater (Last Flag Flying, Everybody Wants Some!!) will direct the film.

Maple Leaf: Harry Wright (Spawn, Grand Theft Auto) has written a quirky crime film about a trio of ex-cons who team up to steal Canadian maple syrup and sell it in America. Jason Reitman is set to direct the film (Tully, Labor Day) with Billy Bob Thornton ("Goliath", Skin Tight), Steve Buscemi (Death and All His Friends, The Death of Stalin) and William Fichtner (Metal Gear Solid, Without Remorse) set for the lead roles.

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