Monday, February 6, 2023

In Development

 
Scarlet: Allie Marie Evans (Friday the 13th, 47 Hours to Live), Samantha Logan (The Empty Man, "All American"), Brandon Butler ("Trinkets", "13 Reasons Why") and Ione Skye (Habit, "La Brea") will round out the cast of the latest Marvel Universe production, Scarlet. Evans, Logan and Butler will play school classmates of the title character, while Skye will play a teacher. Leigh Janiak is directing the Sadie Sink-led film based on a script by Roy Horne.

We Know Where You Live: Grace Van Dien (The Sandman, "Stranger Things"), Abigail Cowen (Photographs, "Fate" The Winx Saga"), Madison Pettis (Friday the 13th, Zoe Maye) and Zoe Levin ("Bonding", "Red Band Society") will join the upcoming horror film, We Know Where You Live. They will play the beautiful but deadly followers of Toby Kebbell's character. Franck Khalfoun directs from a script by Jack Brown.

Tinseltown: Sam Mendes' latest film, the 1920s Hollywood tale Tinseltown, has added the likes of Kaya Scodelario (Looking for Alaska, Alternative), Lucy Boynton (Queen Margot, One Day More), Brendan Fraser (Uncharted 4, Buried Child) and Olivia DeJonge (Birds of Prey, Caesar). Scodelario and Boynton will play Hollywood actresses Alma Rubens and Mary Pickford, respectively, while Fraser will play the driver and bodyguard of the character played by Kathryn Newton. Andrew Doster wrote the script to the film with Dwight Gallo serving as a producer.

Carte Blanche: Shea Whigham (Risico, The Punisher: Last Exit), Kelly Macdonald (Risico, Ghost Town), Melissa Barrera (Scream, Ghost Rider) and Charlotte Le Bon (Fresh, Warning) are set to join the second Bond film starring Dan Stevens. Whigham and Macdonald will reprise their roles from the first film as CIA agent Felix Leiter and MI5 employee Jane Moneypenny, respectively. Barrera will play the main Bond girl in this entry, with Le Bon set for a smaller villainous role. Denis Villeneuve directs this film, taking over for Christopher Nolan, who is busy prepping Caesar Part III, due out next season.

The Saints: The new original superhero project from Jacob Jones and Chad Taylor, the first film set for release in Season 26, has added Maude Apatow (Malik, Poison Ivy), Jason Bateman (No Laughing Matter, Calamity) and Sacha Baron Cohen (Sandbox, Radisson) to its cast. Apatow will play a college student who aspires to be a super villain. Bateman will play a professor, who also happens to be the father of Maya Hawke's character. Cohen, meanwhile, will play the film's main villain, the Scarlett Knight. Olivia Wilde is directing the film.

Made Men: Tony Danza (Sinatra, Darby and the Dead), Moises Arias (Jurassic Park: Another Adventure, "Misfits") and Richard Cabral (Peppermint, Windows on the World) have joined Nicolas Winding Refn's latest film, Made Men. Danza will play a mobster, while Arias and Cabral will play Latino thugs the main characters must contend with. Jimmy Ellis penned the script.

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