Sunday, June 20, 2021

In Development

Spider-Man: Sissy Spacek (Outlaw Country, Halo 4) and Craig T. Nelson (A Little Life, Nocturne) have been cast as Peter Parker's beloved Aunt May and Uncle Ben in Spider-Man from director Damien Chazelle. Greg Germann ("Grey's Anatomy", Get Hard) has also joined the cast as a scientist along with Ron Perlman (The Punisher, Mass Effect 3 - Part 2) and Ana de Armas (Kansas City, The Black Cat) reprising previous Marvel Universe roles as J. Jonah Jameson and Felicia Hardy/Black Cat, respectively. D.R. Cobb and Chad Taylor penned the film.

Boys of the Bayou: Queen Latifah (Bessie, "The Equalizer"), John Turturro (True West, Death and All His Friends Part II) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Constantine: The Hellblazer, The Kid Who Would Be King) will round out the cast of director Spike Lee's LRF debut, Boys of the Bayou. Latifah will play a soul singer, Turturro will play the owner of a concert venue, while Stewart-Jarrett will play a younger version of Samuel L. Jackson's character in a flashback sequence. Jimmy Ellis and Chad Taylor wrote the music-themed film.

The Lone Gunman: Karl Urban (Alien: Out of the Shadows, Hunter), Giancarlo Esposito (To the Other Side, Blackbird), Pedro Pascal (Oklahoma!, God of War) and Diane Guerrero (He Kills, "Doom Patrol") have been cast in the Chris Evans-led revenge thriller The Lone Gunman. Urban will play a criminal, Esposito a Texas Ranger, Pascal a murder suspect, and Guerrero will play a woman involved in the murder with questionable motives. Doug Liman has been hired to direct the film, which has been written by Harmony Winters.

The Crow: Wings of Isaiah: Lili Simmons (Carmilla, The Crow: Resurrected) will officially reprise her role from The Crow: Resurrected. This time around she is trying to move on with her life with a new love interest. Josh Hutcherson (Looking for Alaska, The Secret History) has been cast as said love interest, with Shirley Jones (Zombie Night, Family Weekend) and Megan Fox (AGOS: A Game of Survival, Rogue) also joining the project. Sam Raimi is once again directing the film from a script by Jacob Jones.

The Emperor of Latium: Tim Roth (Rainbow Six, The Champions of Angor), Camilla Belle (Stray Dogs, Dracula Lives) and Harry Styles (The Beatles, Somewhere Somehow) have joined the all-star cast of the Mel Gibson-helmed and Meirad Tako-penned historically-set action-adventure project, The Emperor of Latium.

Happy Birthday: Rounding out the cast of writer Alex Conn's next film will be Sarah Paulson (The Virgin Suicides, Isla Vista), Abraham Attah (ID, Alex + Ada) and Logan Miller (Columbine, High School). Paulson will play the birthday boy's mother, while Attah and Miller will play friends of the main character. Bo Burnham is directing the film.

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