Saturday, July 20, 2019

In Development

Booster Gold: Lost in Time: Rounding out the cast of Booster Gold: Lost in Time will be Kumail Nanjiani (Booster Gold II: The Booster Gold Story, "Silicon Valley") reprising his role as the voice of SKEET. HE will be joined by the new additions of Sam Neill (The Commuter, Sweet Country), Kenneth Branagh (Cyrano de Bergerac, Murder on the Orient Express) and Cynthia Erivo (Widows, Bad Times at the El Royale). Neill will play Brother Blood, Branagh will play Dr. Cave Carson, and Erivo will play Bonnie Baxter. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing from a script by Chad Taylor.

Cold: Michael Stuhlbarg (The Devil in the White City, Bioshock), Gabriel Macht (Jonestown, "Suits"), Chris Cooper (Demolition, Live by Night) and Astrid Berges-Frisbey (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, I Origins) have joined David Fincher's upcoming crime film, Cold. Stuhlbarg will play a detective, Cooper will play Stulhbarg's father, while Berges-Frisbey will play a young woman involved in a crime 30 years in the past. James Morgan penned the original screenplay to the film.

Don't Hang Up: Ann Dowd (The Hunt, Hereditary), Scoot McNairy (Justice League International, Village of Madness) and Zach Galifianakis ("Baskets", Lucky Luke and Billy the Kid) have signed on to the upcoming crime dramedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Michael Keaton. Galifianakis will play a victim to the scam perpetrated by the main characters, Dowd will play the daughter of one of their victims, while McNairy has been cast as a private investigator. Todd McCarthy is set to direct the film from a script by Mo Buck and Dominic Wilkins.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love: Jace Norman (Rufus, "Henry Danger"), Michael Rainey Jr. (211, "Power") and Willow Smith (Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, "True Jackson, VP") will round out the cast of the upcoming high school-set romantic teen drama from writer Meirad Tako and director Fernando Gonzalez Molina.

Mass Effect: First Contact: Stanley Tucci (Spawn 2: Payback, Flash Gordon), Alice Eve (Doctor Love, The Stand) and Vincent Cassel (Days Without End, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) have signed on to the latest Mass Effect film, Mass Effect: First Contact. Tucci will play the film's villain, Eve will play an astronaut in training, and Cassel will play an astronaut who uncovers alien technology on a mission. Alex Garland is directing the film from a script by Seth Overton.

Our Father:
Steven Knight (Locke, Serenity) has signed on to direct the upcoming drama from writer Jimmy Ellis (Kindred, Days Without End). Brendan Gleeson (Crimson Fox, Kindred) will lead the film as a priest called to a hospital to visit with three patients there. Gleeson will be joined by Shia LaBeouf (The Raven, Happy Nuke Year) and Robert De Niro (The Raven, Van Helsing). LaBeouf will play a patient with a severe back injury that has paralyzed him, while De Niro will play LaBeouf's grandfather.

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