Friday, July 12, 2019

In Development

Under Pressure: Rounding out the cast of the sports drama Under Pressure will be Barry Keoghan (Bonnie and Clyde, Asylum), Adelaide Kane ("Reign", "Once Upon a Time") and the director Melanie Laurent (Operation Finale, By the Sea) herself. Keoghan will play Emma Stone's boyfriend, Kane will play a young cycling phenom, and Laurent will play a journalist. Mo Buck wrote the script.

AGOS: A Game of Survival: Michael Bay's latest film has added the likes of John De Lancie (Odette, Visions), Megan Fox ("New Girl", Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), Tom Green (Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts) and Amandla Stenberg (The Darkest Minds, The Hate U Give). De Lancie will play the director of the game, while the other additions will all play contestants on the reality show. Jacob Jones penned the film.

The Mask: The upcoming comic adaptation, The Mask, has added Lily James (Orchid, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Rory McCann (Metamorpho, Sweet Tooth) to its cast. James will play Michael Cera's girlfriend, while McCann will play an intimidating gangster. Tim Miller is directing from a script by Giovanni Garcia.

Booster Gold: Lost in Time: The third film in the Booster Gold series is officially entering production with Billy Magnussen (Justice League International, Missing Men) and Scoot McNairy (Justice League International, Village of Madness) officially back as Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. Phli Lord and Chris Miller (Booster Gold, Booster Gold II: The Booster Gold Story) are once again directing the film from a script written by Chad Taylor (Doctor Love, Orchid).

The Vegan Movie: RJ Cyler (Theater Kids, Maximum Max), Alex Wolff (ID, Somewhere, Somehow) and Bella Thorne (ID, Damned Ship) have all signed on to the film The Vegan Movie, from writer Alex Conn (Theater Kids, Oh Johnny Boy) and director Peter Bogdanovich (She's Funny That Way, The Cat's Meow). Cyler will star as a young man who begins a young woman, played by Thorne, whose lifestyle makes the relationship difficult. Wolff will play Cyler's best friend.

Cold: David Fincher (The Devil in the White City, Survivor) has signed on to direct the upcoming crime film from writer James Morgan (The Rave, Haute Couture). The film will tell the story of an investigation into a gruesome crime that happened 30 years earlier. Tom Hanks (Hiroshima, Bioshock), Kurt Russell (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Squared Circle), Jeremy Irons (Nexus, Flash Gordon) and Donald Sutherland (Maple Leaf, "Trust") have all signed on to the film as suspects in the crime.

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