Sunday, September 30, 2018

In Development

Decrescendo: Rounding out the cast of Jean-Marc Vallee's French-Canadian music biopic will be Ben Kingsley (Steins Gate, Operation Finale), Jean Reno (The Last Face, The Promise) and filmmaker Xavier Dolan (Boy Erased, Martyrs). Kinglsey will play a doctor, Reno will play a songwriter, and Dolan will play the owner of a gay night club. Ann Morrow wrote the script based on the life of singer Alys Robi.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Danny Trejo (Grand Theft Auto, Bullets of Justice), Luis Guzman ("Code Black", Keanu) and Mel Rodriguez (Overboard, "The Last Man on Earth") have all signed on to appear in the currently shooting Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Guzman will play the leader of a drug cartel, Trejo will play the head of a local Cuban gang, while Roriguez will play a sleazy drug smuggler. David Leitch is directing the film based on a script by Mo Buck.

Somewhere, Somehow:
Four more of joined the cast of award-winning writer Chad Taylor's upcomin directorial debut. Harry Styles (The Beatles, Welcome to Paradise), Charlie Plummer (All the Money in the World, King Jack), Aaron Eckhart (Displacement, Paradiso) and Rebecca Romijn ("The Librarians", Good Deeds) have been cast in the project. Eckhart and Romijn will play Alex Wolff's parents, while Styles and Plummer will play two of his best friends.

The Story of the Assassin: Writer Meirad Tako (Merdeka, Real is Better) is back with a historical Middle Eastern-set action story. Rami Malek ("Mr. Robot", The Mummy) will headline the project as an ancient assassin. Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Star Trek Beyond) will co-star in the film as a woman who joins the assassin on a journey. Mike Newell (Great Expectations, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) has been tapped to direct the film.

Blue Heat: Will Smith (Bright, Suicide Squad) is set to star in his first film for Last Resort Films. He will play a veteran cop tasked with taking down a gang of bank robbers. Young stars Taron Egerton (Carbon, Kingsman: The Golden Circle) and John Boyega (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Detroit) will join him on the project. Egerton will play Smith's rookie partner, while Boyega will play the leader of the bank robbers. Gareth Evans (The Raid, Mortal Kombat) will direct the film based on a script by Jack Ryder (Nobody, Numero Uno), which in-turn is based on the Jackie Chan-led film New Police Story.

Queen Mary: Right off the success of Nobody, Tom Holland (Avengers: Infinity War, Nobody) has been cast to star in this horror project alongside Tye Sheridan (Deprogramming, Ranger) and Nick Robinson (Synthetic, Blood Meridian). The film, which is curiously based on an episode of internet personality Shane Dawson's YouTube channel, will depict a group of college kids who search for signs of the supernatural on a supposedly haunted ship. Eli Roth (Demons, The House with a Clock in Its Wall) has been hired to direct the film, which will be the second film from writer Alex Conn (Life of a Champion).

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