In Development

 

The Black Cat: Jennifer Ehle (Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II), Alia Shawkat ("Search Party", Blaze) and Terry O'Quinn ("Lost", "Hawaii Five-0") have joined the soon-to-be-released Marvel Universe film, The Black Cat. Ehle will play the NYPD police commissioner, Shawkat will play a friend of the title character (played by Ana de Armas), and O'Quinn will play a security officer who gets involved in a heist in the story. Karyn Kusama is directing the film from a script by Chad Taylor.

Care of Death: Ben Whishaw (Crowley, Made in Abyss), Jenny Slate (Pressing Luck, "She-Hulk"), Christian Serratos (Flight 7500, "The Walking Dead") and Jeri Ryan ("Bosch", "Star Trek: Picard") will round out the cast of the upcoming horror film Care of Death from writer Ben Collins and director David Gordon Green, making his LRF debut. Whishaw and Serratos will play patients at a psychiatric hospital, while Slate and Ryan will play employees at the facility.

Lock Every Door: Paul Walter Hauser (Deprogramming, The Devil's Passage), Rosamund Pike (Girl in the Fog, Suzanne) and Topher Grace (The School, BlacKkKlansman) have joined Dakota Johnson in Lock Every Door, the adaptation of the novel by Riley Sager. Johnson plays a woman hired to apartment sit in a exclusive NYC building. Hauser will play a fellow sitter, Pike will play an author who lives in the building, while Grace will play the building's doorman. Debra Granik directs from a script by newcomer Rene Menzie.

Mask of the Phantom: Three seasons after its release, Tim Burton's The Phantom of the Opera is set to have a sequel. Word has it that Luke Evans (The Birds, Alien: Out of the Shadows), Lily James (The Flash, The Phantom of the Opera), Ewan McGregor (The Phantom of the Opera, Walker) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Phantom of the Opera, "Feud") are all set to reprise their roles from the first film. Jacob Jones (Kiss Me Katie, Whammy) once again penned the script, which will also bring back director Tim Burton (The Phantom of the Opera, Accordion De Chanson).

Lowell: Aidan Turner (Superman: The Man of Tomorrow, Lady Red), January Jones (Decrescendo, Alan Wake), Blythe Danner ("Patrick Melrose", Strange but True) and Kristen Connolly (The Devil's Revenge, Nocturne) have have signed on to co-star in the film Lowell, starring and directed by Ben Affleck. Turner will play the youngest of the Boylan Brothers (joining Affleck, Adam Driver and Jim Sturgess), while Danner will play their mother. Jones will play the wife of Affleck's character, while Connolly will play the wife of Sturgess' character. The film was penned by the duo of Jimmy Ellis and John Malone.

Recursion: The trio of Chris Pratt (Kindred, Sandbox), Jennifer Lawrence (The Killings, Eileen) and Michael Fassbender (Ubik, Cleopatra) have signed on to headline the film Recursion, based on the hit novel by Blake Crouch. In the film, Pratt will play an NYPD detective who becomes embroiled in a case involving a memory affecting syndrome. Lawrence will play a neuroscientist and Fassbender will play a famous inventor, both of whom become involved in the case Pratt's detective investigates. Duncan Jones (Driving Around the Time, God of War) is set to direct the film from an adaptation by Wesley Campbell (Bone, Peter and the Shadow Thieves).