Thursday, April 25, 2019

In Development

Bone: The voice cast of the animated fantasy adventure Bone has been rounded out with the likes of Zach Galifianakis (Lucky Luke and Billy the Kid, "Baskets"), Jemaine Clement (An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, Brad's Status), Jack McBrayer (Dude, Bad Night), Patrick Stewart (Logan, Evangelion), Willem Dafoe (Heart of Stone, V) and Kathleen Turner (Dumb and Dumber To, Nurse) joining the project. Jennifer Nelson Yuh is directing from a script by Wesley Campbell.

Martian Manhunter: Gina Rodriguez (Miss Bala, "Jane the Virgin") and Edward James Olmos (Blade Runner 2047, "Mayans FC") have joined the cast of the Marshala Ali-led Martian Manhunter film. Olmos will play the scientist who first discovered Martian Manhunter, while Rodriguez will play Olmos' daughter. David Lowery directs from Chad Taylor's script.

Dark Matter: Felicity Jones (American Playboy, Inferno) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Lost Planet, Missoula) will join Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dan Stevens in the sci-fi drama Dark Matter from director Shane Carruth and writer H.G. Hansen. Jones will play Gordon-Levitt's wife, while Winstead will play a woman Gordon-Levitt meets in a parallel universe.

Radisson: The historical drama about the life of Pierre Esprit Radisson has added Jamie Dornan (Police Story: The Return, The Mummy), Gil Birmingham ("Nez Perce", Roanoke), Hugh Laurie (Van Helsing, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Sacha Baron Cohen (Haute Couture, Grimsby) to its ensemble cast. Dornan will play a British officer, Birmingham will play a member of a Native tribe, Laurie will play a governor, and Cohen will play the King of England. Mo Buck penned the script with Joe Wright directing.

Oh Johnny Boy: Timothee Chalamet (Maximum Max, The Host) has signed on to star in Oh Johnny Boy, the directorial debut of writer Alex Conn (The Host, Isla Vista). Chalamet will play a teenager who is committed to a psychiatric hospital for 72 hour observation. Woody Harrelson (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Splinter Cell: Double Agent) and Mark Ruffalo (The Hunt, Avengers: Endgame) have also signed on to the film. Harrelson will play a sadistic orderly at the hospital, while Ruffalo will play Chalamet's psychiatrist.

Vixen: The Totems of Zambesi: The next film in the studio's DC Comics Universe is set to be based on the character Vixen. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Shake Hands with the Devil, Missoula) will play a title character. She will be joined by Trevante Rhodes (Runaway, Bird Box), Mustafa Shakir (Ghost Town, "Luke Cage") and Harry Belafonte (BlacKkKlansman, Bobby) in supporting roles. Rhodes will play a mysterious man Vixen meets in Africa, Shakir will play a warlord, while Belafonte will play a healer. Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II, The Land) will direct the film from a script by Jimmy Ellis (Missing Men) and H.G. Hansen (Bioshock, A Little Life).

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