Our Father: Suraj Sharma (Trigger, "God Friended Me"), Asher Angel (Shazam!, "Andi Mack") and Neel Sethi (The Jungle Book, "The Last O.G.") will round out the cast of the upcoming drama from director Steven Knight and writer Jimmy Ellis. The film depicts a priest (Brendan Gleeson) tasked with visiting patients at a hospital. Sharma will play a patient at the hospital in a coma, Angel will play the son of Andrew Lincoln and Lea Seydoux's characters, while Sethi will play a young version of Sharma's character in flashbacks.
How to Survive in Hell: Mel Gibson (The Squared Circle, Carbon) and Dave Bautista (Flash Gordon, Nexus) have joined How to Survive in Hell, the latest film from director Shane Black. Gibson will play the the leader of a dystopian future United States, while Bautista will play his personal bodyguard. Dominic Wilkins penned the script.
Hunter: Walton Goggins (Kingmaker Chronicles, October Crisis), Ken Watanabe (Mortal Kombat, Mass Effect: The Shadow Broker), Mark Strong (Bioshock, Oh Johnny Boy) and William Hurt (Salem's Lot, "Condor") have all joined the very macho cast of director Jaume Collet-Serra's latest film, Hunter. Goggins will play a Major under Col. Maddox's (Jeff Bridges) command. Watanabe will play Commander Takakura, leader of the kill team tasked with hunting a mysterious beast. Strong will play a mysterious member of the team with unknown affiliation, and Hurt will play a scientist. Mark Newton penned the script based on the novel by James Byron Huggins.
Time Passages: John Legend (La La Land, "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert") and Vanessa Hudgens (Polar, Second Act) have signed on to co-star in the upcoming juke box musical from director Rob Marshall and writer Jacob Jones. Legend will play the film's narrator, a nightclub singer. Meanwhile, Hudgens will play a high school classmate of the main characters.
Torso: Denis Villeneuve (101, Cosa Nostra) is finally back to work following his Best Director GRA nomination for Cosa Nostra back in Season 5. He has been hired to direct a film about the hunt for the "Cleveland Torso Killer". Jake Gyllenhaal (Blackbird, Batman: Caped Crusader), Jason Clarke (Star Trek: Enterprise, Nation's Pride) and Jack Reynor (Suzanne, Days Without End) are set to star in the film. Gyllenhaal has been cast as Elliot Ness, who became the director of public safety after capturing Al Capone in Chicago. Clarke and Reynor will co-star as the detectives assigned to the murders who team up with Ness to stop the killer. John Malone (Scion 3, Ranger) penned the film, his first film as a solo writer since Nevada, Iowa back in Season 8.
Swamp Thing: Booster Gold: Lost in Time won't be the last DC Comics Universe film in Season 12. Alexander Skarsgard (Halo 4, Numero Uno) and Keira Knightley (The Death of the Honest Man, The Raven in the Night) have signed on to headline a film based on the character Swamp Thing. Skarsgard will play scientist Dr. Alec Holland, who is turned into a plant-like beast following an accident. Knightley, meanwhile, will play Abby Arcane, a woman with connections to Holland's lab who seeks to uncover the secrets of the swamp. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island, The Kings of Summer) has been hired to direct the film based on a script by APJ (Uncharted 2, Batman: Caped Crusader).
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