Tuesday, November 8, 2022

In Development

 
Undefeated Abe: Liam Hemsworth (Floyd Monroe, The Refugee), Carson Bolde (The Never List, Godzilla) and Katheryn Winnick (Tekken: Blood Feud, Visions) will complete the cast of Ron Howard's Abe Lincoln wrestling film, Undefeated Abe. Hemsworth will play a rival wrestler, Bolde will play young Lincoln and Winnick will play Lincoln's step-mother. The film is based on a script by Joshua Collins.

Blue Beetle: Legacy: Ian Bohen ("Yellowstone, "Little Women), Matt Berry "What We Do in the Shadows", "Toast of London") and Daniel Stern ("Manhattan", Game Over Man!) have joined the latest DC Comics Universe film, Blue Beetle: Legacy. Bohen will play a businessman, Berry will play a lawyer, while Stern will play an Army general. Marcus Reinaldo Green directs from a script by Jimmy Ellis. Robert Rodriguez is serving as a producer on the project.

Friday the 13th: Jason Voorhee's list of potential victims has come to an end with the casting of  Madison Pettis (Zoe Maye, He's All That), Khylin Rhambo ("Teen Wolf", 47 Meters Down: Uncaged), Ethan Cutkosky ("Shameless", Alex/October) and Jacob Batalan (Let It Snow, Spider-Man: No Way Home). They will all play new camp counselors at the soon-to-be-reopened Camp Crystal Lake which once again serves as the arena of Voorhee's killings. Patrick Lussier is directing the film, which is the second film from writer Jack Brown.

The Fall Guy: Trouble in Tahiti: Dave Bautista (Tekken: Blood Feud, Flash Gordon), Olivia Munn (Pontiac, Luke Cage: Power Man), Barry Pepper (El Dorado, Days Without End) and Rob Corddry ("The Unicorn", Bad Therapy) have joined Dwayne Johnson in the sequel to The Fall Guy. Bautista will play a movie star, Munn a stuntwoman, Pepper a gun smuggler and Corddry a movie producer. Jon Favreau directs this sequel. Chad Taylor penned the film alongside writer Matt Parker.

Nomad: Casey Affleck (Death of the Artist, For Those Who Don't Read Me) will be joining the Marvel Universe in Nomad. He will play Jack Monroe, a nomadic former soldier who gains special abilities through a military experiment that was thought to have failed. Haley Bennett (Poison Ivy: Mind Games, The Water Cure) and Tinsley Price ("Stranger Things" , Galveston) will also star in the film as a mother and her daughter that are protected by Affleck's character. Ed Zwick (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Trial by Fire) is set to direct from a script by Jimmy Ellis (Grayson, Silver Sable) and Dwight Gallo (Berserker, Elektra)

The Last of the Mohicans: Robert Pattinson (Blue Ridge, Queen Margot) has signed on to headline a new adaptation of the famed novel The Last of the Mohicans, making it the 12th film adaptation of the work. He will play a man raised in an Indian tribe at the start of the French-Indian War. Pattinson will be joined in the film by Jodie Comer (House Without End, Floyd Monroe), Jude Law (Antarctica, Outlaw Country) and Richard Madden (2060, Odysseus - Part Two). Comer will play the daughter of a British General, Law will play her father, while Madden will play a soldier who wants to marry her. Craig Gillespie (Stained, Fear of the Dark) is directing this adaptation from a script by Andrew Doster (Inner Demons, Odysseus - Part Two).

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