Saturday, August 28, 2021

In Development

Stepford: Rounding out the cast of the Yorgos Lanthimos-helmed Stepford will be Joel McHale (Last Rites, Happily), Bella Heathcote (Batman: Arkham, At the Mountains of Madness), Jesse Williams (The Temptations, "Grey's Anatomy") and Sandra Oh (The Andromeda Strain, "Killing Eve"). McHale will play a cocky resident of Steford with Heathcote as his young wife. Williams will play the professional basketball player husband to Jurnee Smollett's character, while Oh will play Emma Stone's  big city psychiatrist. The film is based on a script credited to writers Lon Charles and Carl Flimmer.

Gears of War: Terry Crews (John Henry, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), Daniel Dae Kim (Dragon Ball: The Wrath of the Demon King, Hellboy) and Lili Simmons (The Crow: Wings of Isaiah, Carmilla) have signed on to the video game adaptation Gears of War. Crews and Kim will play members of a military unit fighting an alien threat. Simmons will play communications officer who interacts with the unit. Zack Snyder is directing the film from a script by Mark Newton.

INFINITY:
Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway will be joined by Nicholas Hoult (Germinal, Antarctica), Sterling K. Brown (Bad Dreams Come True, Tail) and Hayley Atwell (Pulp, The Killings) in INFINITY. Hoult will play a computer prodigy, Brown will play a consultant who works for Cruise, while Atwell will play a mathematics professor. Duncan Jones is directing the sci-fi thriller based on an original script by Jacob Jones.

Gambit: District X:
The Gambit sequel has added Kiki Layne (Coming 2 America, The Old Guard), Olivia Cooke (Escape the Unknown, Maximum Ride), Nicholas Hamilton (Tumor, All the Pretty Horses) and Anthony Carrigan (Huntress, "Barry"). Layne will play Ororo Munroe aka Storm, Cooke will play Callisto, Hamilton will play a teenaged Gambit, and Carrigan will play Kaliban. Jim Mickle is set to direct the film based on Chad Taylor's script.

The Case Against 8:
James Franco (Life of a Champion, Paradiso) is set to star in and direct an adaptation of the documentary, The Case Against 8. Franco will play LGBT activist Chad Griffin in this story of the battle to fight California's ban on gay marriage (Proposition 8). Franco will be joined by Mark Rylance (Firestorm, The Stranger) and Jeff Bridges (Hunter, Skyrim) in the film as two famed attorneys with different political ideologies who team up to help Griffin's case. Alex Conn (Dan Star, Happy Birthday) penned the film.

If We Know the Right Way: Writer Meirad Tako (The Emperor of Latium, The Cry of the Night Lady) is set to make his theatrical directorial debut in the terrorism themed Indonesian film, If We Know the Right Way, based on his own script. Indonesian actors Iqbaal Ramadhan, Angga Aldi Yunanda, Ray Sahetapy and Tio Pakusadewo will star in the film.

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