In Development

The Queen of the Night: LRF regular Ian McShane (The Creature: The Beginning, The Carpet Makers) has joined the cast of the upcoming historical drama The Queen of the Night, making it his 11th film for the studio. Also joining the film will be John Malkovich (Paradiso, The Question: Dark Tomorrow), Barbra Streisand (The Guilt Trip, Little Fockers) and Damian Lewis (Black Dublin, Carmilla). Joe Wright is directing the opera-themed film from a script by H.G. Hansen.

Uncharted 2: Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Unlocked), Sofia Boutella (Atomic Blonde, Alex + Ada) and Ray Stevenson (Green Arrow, Cold Skin) have all joined the highly anticipated sequel to Uncharted. Bloom will play a former associate of Nathan Drake (Ryan Reynolds), Boutella will play Flynn's girlfriend, while Stevenson will play Serbian war criminal Zoran Lazarevic. Brad Peyton returns to direct this sequel, once again penned by APJ.

Maximum Max: After playing in the DC Universe with the Booster Gold films, writer Chad Taylor (One for the Ages, Calamity) is now trying his hand at an original superhero project. Timothee Chalamet (Hippies in New York, Cascade) will star in the project as a high schooler who develops superhuman abilities from an experimental drug. Rami Malek will play the villain, a pharmaceutical billionaire (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Story of the Assassin), while Owen Wilson (Revolution, Father Figures) and Melanie Lynskey (Blood on the Moon, "Castle Rock") will play Chalamet's parents. Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Sex Tape) is directing the film.

Missing Men: Another new writer, Jimmy Ellis, will make his debut this season. His first film will be the war thriller, Missing Men. Clint Eastwood (The 15:17 to Paris, The Mule) has signed on to direct the film. Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea, Deprogramming), Billy Magnussen (Booster Gold II: The Booster Gold Story, An Honest Mistake) and Tommy Lee Jones (Doppelganger 2, Jason Bourne) are set to star in the film about a military unit sent to Russian to track down a war criminal. Jones will play a general, while Affleck and Magnussen will play members of the unit.

Life of a Champion Part 2: The much talked about prequel to Alex Conn's (ID, Hippies in New York) debut film as a writer, Life of a Champion, is finally officially entering production. Dane DeHaan (The Informers, Life of a Champion) and Will Poulter (October Crisis, Life After Life) will reprise their roles from the first film as a pair of criminals. Lucas Hedges (To the Moon, Hippies in New York) will also star in the film as DeHaan's brother, who was mentioned but not seen in the previous film. Derek Cianfrance  (Life of a Champion, Sinkhole) returns to direct the film.

Skyrim: A big budget film version of the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is on its way to the big screen from Last Resort Films. Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Lovely Bones) is set to produce the film which will be directed by Miguel Sapochnik ("Game of Thrones", Repo Men). The fantasy epic will star Chris Hemsworth (Bravo/Samurai, Numero Uno), Russell Crowe (Scion, Blood Meridian), Sarah Paulson (Glass, Doppelganger 2) and Jeff Bridges (Bad Times at the El Royale, Only the Brave). Hemsworth will play the lead character, a hero prophesized to control dragons. Crowe will play a "Stormcloak" who is imprisoned along side our hero at the beginning of the story. Bridges will play the governor of a hold in the land, while Paulson will play one of this companions.