Monday, October 3, 2022

In Development

 
Pocahontas: Gil Birmingham (Hawkworld, Radisson), Levi Miller (Judas Iscariot, The Nest), Rory McCann (Pirate Latitudes, Metamorpho) and Ewen Bremner (OZ, Pulp) are set to round out the cast of the animation adaptation Pocahontas. Birmingham will the chief of the Native American tribe, while Miller, McCann and Bremner will play members of the British expedition to the New World. Gore Verbinski directs from a script by Walter McKnight.

EP: Also completing its casting is the late night television drama, E.P., with Teyonah Parris (Charm City Kings, Chi-Raq), Elizabeth Rodriguez ("Power", "Orange Is the New Black") and George Wyner ("Reboot", Deadly Patient) signing onto the project. Sofia Coppola directs from a script by Jacob Jones.

Everything Will Be Alright: Riley Keough (Odysseus - Part Two, Kurt & Courtney: All Apologies), Bo Burnham (Winter's Displeasure, Promising Young Woman) and Zhang Ziyi (The Cloverfield Paradox, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) have joined the latest directorial effort from GRA-winning writer Chad Taylor. Keough will play the ex-lover of Wyatt Russell's lead character. Burnham will play Russell's childhood friend, while Ziyi will play the sister of Tang Wei's character.

X-Men: Sinister: Jamie Dornan (Northrock, X-Men: The Cure), Toby Stephens (X-Men, X-Men: The Cure) and Jessie Buckley (Recursion, X-Men: The Cure) are all back for a third X-Men film as Cyclops, Professor Xavier and Jean Grey, respectively. In this film the team will go up against the comic book villain Mr. Sinister, played Andrew Scott (Gambit: District X, Prodigy) who debuted the role in Gambit: District X. Alex Garland (X-Men: The Cure, Ubik) is once again directing the Marvel Universe production based on a script by Dwight Gallo (Berserker, Rodeo).

Queen Margot: Saoirse Ronan (Atlantis, Tough Girl), Robert Pattinson (Blue Ridge, Worried Mind), Kit Harington (Halo: ODST, Dino Crisis 2), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (L.A. Rex, The Kiss Quotient) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Elvis, The Power of the Dog) have all signed on to the star-studded historical film, Queen Margot. Based on the life of the historical figure of the same name, the film tells the story of a young princess who finds herself in a war between Catholics and Protestants for power in France. Ronan will play the title character, Pattinson will play a French nobleman who has a relationship with Margot, Harington will Pattinson's Catholic friend, Taylor-Johnson will play Henry IV, and Smit-McPhee will play Charles IX. Chloe Zhao (Eternals, He Kills) is set to direct the film from a script by Jack Slipter (The Nest, Ghost Stories).

Run: Carey Mulligan (The Grenade, A Farewell to Arms), Chris Evans (The Long Gunman, Missoula) and Tom Hiddleston (El Dorado, Mexican Gothic) are set to headline the horror/thriller Run. Mulligan and Evans will play a married couple who go on the run with their family when a strange phenomenon leading to a large segment of the population becoming increasingly violent. Hiddleston will play a man having an affair with Mulligan's character - who becomes one of those overcome by violent urges. Garth Davis (Lion, Mary Magdalene) has been hired to direct the film. The film is based on the novel by Blake Crouch. The adaptation was written by Wesley Campbell (Supercrooks, L.A. Rex).

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