Wednesday, February 10, 2021

In Development

Tumor: Michael Caine (The Stand, Assassin's Creed: The New Order), Julie Walters (Wild Rose, The Secret Garden) and Lauren Cohan (Lowell, "The Walking Dead") will round out the cast of Tumor, the directorial debut of Julianne Moore. Caine will play a doctor, Walters will play a teacher, while Cohan will play the mother of Asher Angel's character. The film was written by Jimmy Ellis.

Caesar: Uma Thurman (Skyrim III: Dovahkiin, Death and All His Friends), Olivia DeJonge (Excalibur, Love) and Daisy Edgar-Jones ("Normal People", Pond Life) have joined the Leonardo DiCaprio-led historical epic, Caesar. Thurman will play Servilia, the mistress of Julius Caesar. DeJonge will play Caesar's beautiful daughter Julia, while Edgar-Jones will play Caesar's young bride Calpurnia. Christopher Nolan is directing the film from a script by John Malone and Chad Taylor.

Fear of the Dark: The quartet of Chloe Grace Moretz (Buried Memories, Isla Vista), Anya Taylor Joy (Ypsilanti, The Young Pretender), Peyton Roi List (Walker, The Virgin Suicides) and  Katherine Langford (Scream 5, Oh Johnny Boy) have signed on to star in the new horror film, Fear of the Dark, from director Craig Gillespie (The Finest Hours, I Tonya) and writer Andrew Doster (Crush, Curtains).

Sleeping Beauties: Hot of the success of Bad Dreams Come True, Elisabeth Moss (Visions, Bad Dreams Come True) has signed on to star in the adaptation of the novel by Stephen King and his son Owen King. She will be joined by Tobey Maguire (Sabbatical Recovery, Pawn Sacrifice), Danny McBride (Arizona, "The Righteous Gemstones") and Katherine Waterston (Adri1ft, Dark Places). Moss will play the local sheriff of a small town where all of the women begin succumbing to a disease that puts them into a deep sleep. Maguire will play her husband, a psychiatrist at a local womens prison. McBride will play the town's animal control officer. Waterston will play a mysterious woman who is seemingly responsible for the disease plaguing the town's women. Sam Raimi (The Reign of Lady Morgana, The Crow: Resurrected) has been set to direct the film from an adaptation by Matt Parker (Coma, Y: The Last Man), the studio's resident Stephen King expert.

Cocaine Cowboys: Michael Bay (Justice League International, Six Underground) is back to work for LRF, taking them helm of Cocaine Cowboys, a film about the wild world of the South Florida drug trade in the 1980s. Bay regular Mark Wahlberg (Triple Identity, Spenser Confidential) has signed on to star in the film as Jon Roberts, a New York thug who became a major drug smuggler. Joining Wahlberg in the film will be Caleb Landry Jones (Excalibur, Batman: Arkham) and Salma Hayek (Maximum Ride, Like a Boss). Landry Jones has been cast as Mickey Munday, a MacGyver-esque drug smuggler who partners with Wahlberg's character. Hayek will play the film's defacto villain, the volatile and dangerous drug lord, Griselda Blanco. Dwight Gallo (The Punisher, McCain) penned the script to the film.

Drawing Dion: Lakeith Stanfield (The Temptations, Genetic Descent), Miles Brown ("Black-ish"), Brian Tyree Henry (Unknown, Ghost Town) and Sunny Suljic (Mid90s, The House with a Clock in Its Walls) have signed on to the drama Drawing Dion. Stanfield will play a homeless man who takes solace in drawing. Brown will play Stanfield's character as a child. Suljic will play a local teenager. Joe Talbot (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) has been tapped to direct the film from a script by Jimmy Ellis (One Day More, The Devil's Revenge).

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