Coma: Rounding out the cast of Jeff Nichols' Coma will be Jeremy Piven ("Mr Selfridge", Entourage) as a shady hospital anesthesiologist, Mireille Enos (Alan Wake, "Hanna") as the director of the mysterious Jefferson Insitute, and Ed Begley Jr. (The Fall Guy, Plus One) as Elizabeth Olsen's Alzheimer's affected father. Matt Parker penned the adaptation based on the novel by Robin Cook.
Excalibur: Nell Tiger Free ("Servant", "Too Old to Die Young"), Caleb Landry Jones (Batman: Arkham, Outlaw Country), Douglas Booth (Pirate Latitudes, The Hazel Wood) and Karl Glusman (Martian Manhunter, "Rolling Stone") have all joined George MacKay, Christina Hendricks and Daniel Craig in Nicolas Winding Refn's Excalibur. Free will play Guenevere, Arthur's love interest, while Jones, Booth and Glusman will all play Arthur's Knights. Roy Horne penned the film based on the 1981 film.
Gambit and Rogue: W. Earl Brown (Ypsilanti, The Highwaymen), Jodie Comer (Hollow Creek, "Killing Eve") and Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit, "Boreas") have joined the Marvel Universe film Gambit and Rogue. McKenzie will play a young mutant, Brown will play the leader of the Thieves Guild, while Comer will play a member of the Assassins Guild. Garrett Hedlund headlines the film which introduces the characters of Gambit and Rogue (played by Diana Silvers) to the X-Men series and Marvel Universe. Alma Har'el is directing the film from a script by Chad Taylor.
Revelations: Fresh off the acclaim last season for his role in Misfit, Joaquin Phoenix (Bastion, Misfit) has signed on to star in the new drama from writer James Morgan (Of Rocks and Sand, Walker). Phoenix will play the son of a famous televangelist family, with Anthony Hopkins (Uncharted 2, Driving Around the Time) and Susan Sarandon (Runaway, The Jesus Rolls) as his parents. Todd Haynes (Guilt, Dark Waters) has signed on to direct the film.
Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever: Joss Whedon (Evangelion, Maximum Ride) is back to direct the sequel to his Season 8 film, Maximum Ride. Olivia Cooke (Maximum Ride, Trip), Dylan Sprayberry (Maximum Ride, Crush) and Nicholas Hamilton (Maximum Ride, Maximum Max) will all return in the lead roles as teenagers who were genetically modified with bird DNA to give them wings. HG Hansen (The Cape, Sabbatical Recovery) is back to write the adaptation once again.
Fractured: Shia LaBeouf (Our Father, The Raven), Ben Foster (The Flash, Kurt & Courtney: All Apologies) and Rose Byrne (Blood on the Moon, Pressing Luck) have all signed on to star in the mixed martial arts film, Fractured. LaBeouf will play a homeless young man who becomes a MMA-fighter when he is taken under the wing his childhood friend, played by Ben Foster. Byrne will play the wife of Foster's character. Jimmy Ellis (Should've Been Here, Lady Red) and Chad Taylor (Oklahoma!, Misfit) penned the script which is being directed by Ukranian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (The Tribe).
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