Sunday, April 12, 2020

In Development

Bastion: Bruce Greenwood (Swim Through the Darkness, Life of a Champion), Lewis Pullman (Them That Follow, Bad Times at the El Royale), Mike Colter (Mass Effect: Silent Assassins, Red Farm) and Alexandra Shipp (The Temptations, Oh Johnny Boy) have signed on to round out the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's Bastion. Greenwood will play a lawyer, while Pullman will play the younger version of his character. Colter will play a prison inmate and Shipp's role is kept under wraps. Jimmy Ellis wrote the script to the film.

Pirate Latitudes: Another film is rounding out its cast. Ridley Scott's pirate adventure has added Douglas Booth (The Hazel Wood, The Dirt), Jordi Molla (The Tournament, "Miami Vice") and Daniel Bruhl (Sherwood, Red Planet) to complete its cast. Booth will a politically ambitious young British man, while Molla and Bruhl will play villainous pirates. Matt Parker penned the film based on the final novel by the late Michael Crichton.

X-Men: Rebecca Ferguson (Men in Black: International, Doctor Sleep), Zach McGowan (Red Sonja, The Brawler), Millie Bobby Brown (Beartown, The Powerpuff Girls) and Jessie Buckley ("Gauntlet", "Chernobyl") have joined Alex Garland's X-Men film. Ferguson will play the shapeshifting Mystique, Brown will play Kitty Pryde, Buckley will play Jean Grey, while McGowan's role is being kept under wraps. Dwight Gallo wrote the script to the Marvel Universe film.

And the Birds Rained Down: Isabelle Huppert (Germinal, Greta), Andy Serkis (Dark Places, Peter and the Starcatchers), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade, Manchester by the Sea) and Jon Voight (Sisters, "Ray Donovan") have signed on to the upcoming collaboration between director Jean-Marc Vallee and writer Mo Buck. Voight will play one of the hermits who live in the woods, while the others' roles are undisclosed.

Love: Pollyanna McIntosh ("The Walking Dead", "Lodge 49"), (Nocturne, A Good Marriage), Jeremy Irvine (Femme Fatale, Siren) and Shay Mitchell ("Dollface", "You") have joined the horror-drama Love from writer Andrew Doster and director Roar Uthaug. The film tells the story of a group of people trying to avoid a pandemic that turns its victims into zombie-like creatures.

Mortal Kombat II: The sequel to Season 7's Mortal Kombat is finally here in the form of Mortal Kombat II. Iko Uwais (Mortal Kombat, Assassin's Creed: The New Order), Jet Li (Mortal Kombat, The Expendables 3), Ken Watanabe (Hunter, Mass Effect: The Shadow Broker) and Ronda Rousey (Mortal Kombat, Mile 22) have all signed on to reprise their roles from the first film. Uwais will return as the heroic Liu Kang, Li as the Elder God Raiden, Watanabe as the nefarious sorcerer Shang Tsung, and Rousey will return as the no-nonsense Interpol agent Sonya Blade. Gareth Evans (Blue Heat, Mortal Kombat) returns to direct. APJ (Uncharted 3, Batman: Arkham) and Chad Taylor (The Fall Guy, A Lost Sense of Heaven) are back to write the script.

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