Sunday, April 11, 2021

In Development

Task Force X: To round out the cast, the latest DC Comics Universe film has recently added Yvonne Strahovski, Stephen Lang, Hong Chau and John David Washington to its cast. Chau will be reprising her role as assassin Lady Shiva from The Question films, Strahovski will play a DEO agent who works under Amanda Waller, Washington will play an assassin known as Black Spider, while Lang will Shiva's husband. Guy Ritchie helmed the film from a script by Jimmy Ellis.

Shouts from the Well: Kathryn Newton (Circumstances of Time, Aliens vs. Predator: The First Hunt), Maude Apatow ("Euphoria", The King of Staten Island), Stefanie Scott (Mary, The School) and Michael C. Hall (The Smoke in the Red Country, Captain Atom 2) habe all signed on to David Fincher's latest film, the period thriller Shouts from the Well. Newton, Apatow and Scott will join the previously cast Thomasin McKenzie, Kaitlyn Dever and Olivia DeJonge as fellow young women taken captive for seemingly unknown reasons. Hall, meanwhile, has been cast as a priest. Ben Collins penned the film.

Police Story: Case Closed:
Max Irons (Police Story: Extradition, Red Sonja) is officially set to reprise his role as Jamie Dornan's criminal brother from Police Story: Extradition in the upcoming trilogy capper, Police Story: Case Closed. Michelle Monaghan (The Last of Us, Red Planet) and Sigourney Weaver (Odette, My Salinger Year) have also joined the film. Monaghan will play an FBI agent, with Weaver playing her superior. Meirad Tako once again wrote the film, with Olivier Megaton taking over as director on the film.

Chris, Travis & Juliet: Writer Alex Conn (Drugstore Perfume, The Virgin Suicides) is set to direct his fourth film for the studio with Emile Hirsch (The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth, Crowley) and Will Poulter (Life of a Champion Part 2, Life After Life) set for two of the lead roles. Hirsch will play a charismatic New York-based filmmaker who becomes a mentor to a naive young man played by Poulter.

Rainbow Six: After many seasons, Tom Hardy (Kingmaker Chronicles, God of War: Kratos) is finally set to reprise his role as Tom Clancy's anti-hero John Clark from his LRF debut, Without Remorse. This sequel will see Clark take control of an international military unit with the mission of fighting terrorists across the globe. He will be joined by two familiar faces from that first film: Melissa Benoist (The Arrival, Swim Through the Darkness) and Jeffrey Donovan (Without Remorse, Let Him Go). Benoist will play Clark's wife while Donovan will once again play CIA official Robert Ritter. Peter Berg (Triple Identity, After) is set to direct once again from a script by Mark Newton (Blood in the Water, The Hulk).

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