In Development

Strawberry High: Terri Linsky and Jacob Jones' teen drama has finally added some adults to the cast in the form of former wrestlers Paul Levesque (Blade: Trinity, Inside Out) and Shawn Michaels (The Marine 6: Close Quarters, Pure Country: Pure Heart), as well as daytime soap opera ctor Mark Pinter ("The Young and the Restless", "General Hospital"). Levesque will play the prinical of Strawberry High with Michaels as his vice principal, and Pinter as the father of the characters played by Emily Carey and Nolan Gross.

Excellent Women: Jayma Mays (American Made, Bill & Ted Face the Music), Valorie Curry (Inherit the Viper, After Darkness), Michael Cera (The Mask, Paradiso) and Sally Field ("Dispatches from Elsewhere", Little Evil) have signed on to round out the cast of Excellent Women. The film is being directed by Greta Gerwig and written by Rosie JoLove, based on the novel by Barbara Pym.

Plastic Man 2: Electric Boogaloo: David Dastmalchian (Bunker 17, Control) is reportedly set to reprise his role from Plastic Man, Chuck Brown aka Kite-Man, in a smaller role in the upcoming sequel. Also joining the Rawson Thurber Marshall-helmed film will be former sumo wrestler Taylor Wily ("Hawaii Five-0", Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Anthony Ruivivar ("Banshee", "Scream") in undisclosed roles. APJ once again penned the script.

That Was Then, This Is Now: Sophie Turner (Halo 6, Genetic Descent), Jack Dylan Grazer (Uncharted 3, Germinal), Alex Wolff (Corndog, Haunted) and Isabela Merced (All the Pretty Horses, Huntress) have all joined the ensemble cast of the upcoming S.E. Hinton adaptation.  Gus Van Sant is directing the film from a script by Rachel Hallet Hardcastle and Harmony Winters.

Stepford: A new adaptation of Ira Levin's famed novel, The Stepford Wives, is on the way from director Yorgos Lanthimos. Emma Stone (Escape the Unknown, The Powerpuff Girls) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Orchid, Dark Matter) will lead the cast as a young couple who move to the Connecticut suburbs, only to find out that the residents may be robots. The script of the film came about in an interesting way as Lon Charles (The Glass Menagerie, The Temptations) and Carl Flimmer (Alien: Out of the Shadows, Resident Evil 3) both separately submitted pitches for the project to the studio within hours of each other. The studio then opted, rather than select one over the other, to combine elements from each pitch into one "franken-movie" adaptation.

The Grenade: Roman Griffin-Davis (Jojo Rabbit, Excalibur), Carey Mulligan (A Farewell to Arms, The Price of Fame) and Brian Cox (The Stranger, Gargoyles) are set to star in The Grenade, from director Andrew Haigh (Worried Mind, "The North Water") and writer Jimmy Ellis (Hillside, The World: Done to Death). The film tells the story of a young boy who finds a hand grenade, played by Griffin-Davis. Mulligan will play his mother, while Cox will play a fisherman.