Wednesday, September 26, 2018

In Development

Nobody: Rounding out the cast of Marc Webb and Jack Ryder's upcoming coming of age story will be Marisa Tomei (Cosa Nostra, A View from the Bridge), Adam Sandler (The Week Of, The Meyerowitz Stories) and Nick Offerman (Hearts Beat Loud, The Founder). Tomei will play Tom Holland's mother, Offerman will play a history teacher, while Sandler will take on a small role as a high school principal.

Halo: Reach: Robin Wright ("House of Cards", Wonder Woman) and Peter Stormare (John Wick: Chapter 2, 22 Jump Street) have joined Halo: Reach, a prequel to the first film in the series. Wright will play Catherine Halsey, the creator of the SPARTAN-II project, while Stormare will play Col. Urban Holland, the commanding officer to the SPARTAN unit. Colin Trevorrow directs from a script by Dominic Wilkins.

Maximum Ride: Colin Ford (Every Day, Disconnect) and Abby Ryder Fortson (The Life Ahead, Ant-Man) will complete the casting on the YA adaptation Maximum Ride from director Joss Whedon and writer H.G. Hansen, based on the book series by James Patterson. Ford will play the son of Kevin Costner who leads a groups of Erasers who are after the flock, while Fortson will play the daughter of Salma Hayek's character.

Decrescendo:
Jason Bateman (The Death of the Honest Man, Revolution), John Carroll Lynch (Lucky, Private Life), Michael Sheen (Reality, Last Rites) and Jason Patric (Hiroshima, The Yellow Birds) will join the Christina Hendricks-led Alys Robi biopic. Bateman will play comedian Olivier Guimond, who had a romance with Robi. Lynch and Sheen will play music managers, and Patric will play the legendary Frank Sinatra. Jean-Marc Vallee makes his return to the studio to direct from a script by Ann Morrow.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: The latest Grand Theft Auto film has added to its already impressive cast with the additions of Jamie Foxx (Dishonest, Hunt), Bobby Cannavale (The Lady in the Lake, A View from the Bridge), Woody Harrelson (Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Carmilla) and Antonio Banderas (Road Rash, Bullet Head). Foxx will play Lance Vance, a drug runner. Cannavale will play the head of the Forelli crime family. Harrelson will play Avery Carrington, a brutal businessman who hires the main character, played by Vince Vaughn. Banderas, meanwhile, will play a retired South American colonel. David Leitch is directing the film based on Mo Buck's script.

Somewhere, Somehow: GRA winning writer Chad Taylor (Pressing Luck, The Squared Circle) will be making his directorial debut on the coming of age story Somewhere, Somehow. Alex Wolff (Cleopatra, Hereditary), Madison Iseman (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, "Still the King"), Garance Marillier (Raw, Amelie) and Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen, Split) have joined the cast. Wolff will lead the cast as an average teenager, Iseman and Marillier will play his love interests, while Richardson will play a lifelong friend. Taylor wrote the script which is very loosely based on the famed novel The Age of Innocence.

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