Sunday, December 24, 2023

In Development

 
Beasts: Rounding out the cast of Hill Valley Entertainment's Beasts will be Dev Patel (Among Us, Monaco), Lauren Ridloff (Eternals, "The Walking Dead"), Georgina Campbell (Bird Box Barcelona, Barbarian) and Patrick Stewart (Prodigy, Evangelion). Patel, Ridloff and Campbell will play members of the tribe at the center of the story, while Stewart will play a mysterious tribal elder. Alfonso Cuaron is directing the film from a script by Jimmy Ellis and Chad Taylor.

AKA Billy the Kid: The epic Billy the Kid biopic from director Baz Luhrmann and writer Dwight Gallo has added the likes of Virginia Gardner (Amityville, Beautiful Disaster), Ray McKinnon (Sick Girl, Chaos Walking), Scott Haze (Jurassic World Dominion, Antlers), Trace Adkins ("Monarch", Old Henry) and Steven Ogg ("The Walking Dead", Emancipation) to its ensemble supporting cast. 

Forever Hold the Peace: Another large ensemble cast is filling out its final pieces with Fred Armisen (The Bubble, Spin Me Round), Nicholas Hamilton (Gambit: District X, Tumor), Nell Tiger Free (Excalibur, Cecil) and Erin Kellyman (Gracie, The Green Knight) all signing on to the comedy/drama Forever Hold the Peace from director Sian Heder and writers HG Hansen and Abbie Q.

Harvard Psychology: Anthony LaPaglia (The Curse of Janara, The Question: The End), Lili Taylor (Home Again, The Conjuring), Julian Hilliard (Amityville, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) and Carla Gugino (Torso, Blood on the Moon) have all joined Harvard Psychology, the story of a young mathematics student (Fionn Whitehead) at Harvard University who is subjected to unorthodox experiments by a psychology professor (Robert Downey Jr.). Gugino will play the professor's alcoholic wife, while LaPaglia, Taylor and Hilliard will play the family members of the student.

Superman: Exile: Aidan Turner (Judas Iscariot, Superman: The Last Son of Krypton), Dakota Johnson (The Void, Knight Rider), Daniel Craig (The Deadliest Night in Show Business, Justice League Unlimited), Frances McDormand (The Driftwood Populace, Supergirl) and Chloe Grace Moretz (Supergirl, Corndog) are all officially set to return ford a third Superman film from writer John Malone (The Spectre, Namor the Sub-Mariner: Imperius Rex) and director Jeff Nichols (The Void, Judas Iscariot). They will be reprising their roles as Clark Kent/Superman, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Martha Kent, and Kara/Supergirl, respectively. This third film will depict Clark discovering the truth about his heritage and the destruction of his home planet. 

Moon Knight: The first film of Season 30 will be the first superhero project in the career of mega-star Leonardo DiCaprio (Caesar Part III, E.P.) as he has signed on for the title role in Moon Knight, based on the Marvel Comics character. He will play mercenary Marc Spector who is given powers by Khonsu, the Egyptian Moon God. Rooney Mara (The Night Swim, The Glass Menagerie) and Babs Olusanmokun ("Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", Dune) have also signed on to the project. Mara will play a doctor tasked with evaluating Spector following a mission gone wrong, while Olusanmokun will play a villain in the film - a fellow mercenary. Denis Villeneuve (Detroit: Become Human, Carte Blanche) will direct the film from a script by Jimmy Ellis (Thorne, Task Force X: Jungleland) and Mark Newton (Pompeii, Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer), their first project as co-writers together. 

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