In Development

 

God of War III - Part One: Katy O'Brian (Love Lies Bleeding, Twisters), Lizzy Caplan (The Woman Upstairs, Crush) and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Pulp, Pirate Latitudes) are set to round out the supporting cast of the latest film in the God of War video game adaptation franchise. Andy Serkis is directing from an adaptation from Wesley Campbell.

Animal Farm: Joining the voice cast of the Orwell adaptation Animal Farm will be Sally Hawkins (Risico, Revelations), Rhys Ifans (Thorne, Kingmaker Chronicles) and Ciaran Hinds (The Sandman: Season of Mists, An Eye For An Eye). Hawkins and Ifans will voice a pair of hourses, while Hinds is voicing a donkey. Genndy Tarakovsky is helming the animated film from an adaptation by Meirad Tako.

The Life Survey: Jesse Plemons (Gas Bar Blues, Miracles) and Christopher Walken (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Silver Surfer: The Power Cosmic) have been cast in a new drama, The Life Survey. Plemons will play a young man called in to take part in a mysterious survey conducted by Walken's character. Spike Jonze (The Untitled Paul Nichols Project, Calamity) is set to direct the film from an original story by Wyatt Allen (The Untitled Paul Nichols Project, A German Tragedy).

Ghost Rider: Damnation: Aaron Paul (Ghost Rider, Outlaw Country), Emma Greenwell (Ghost Rider, Rattlesnake) and David Denman (Queen Margot, Ghost Rider) are all set to return for the sequel to Season 21's Ghost Rider. Paul is back as the title character, Danny Ketch aka Ghost Rider. Greenwell is back as Ketch's sister Barbara and Denman is back as Detroit Police Detective Badalino. Ilya Naishuller (Ghost Rider, Wolfenstein) is returning to direct the Marvel Universe production, once again penned by Mark Newton (Gears of War 2, Pompeii).

Saving Yemen: Adam Sandler (Five Boroughs, D.I.C.K.) and Reese Witherspoon (Idlewood Ranch, The Youngest Hart) are set to headline the new comedy Saving Yemen from writer Jacob Jones (Scrappy, The Scam of Success) director Jeremiah Zagar (Hustle, We the Animals), making his LRF debut. The film tells the story of an American family man who becomes President of the war-torn country of Yemen while on vacation. Witherspoon will play his bewildered wife.

Ecstasy: Jenna Ortega (Tomato Can, Her Dying Wish) is set to headline Ecstasy, a modern teen adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as the film's version of Daisy. Joining her will be Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Scarlet, After Everything) as Gatsby and Dominic Sessa (Anarchy, Love Is Embarrassing), hoping to improve his LRF track record, as Nick. Megan Park (Flick, My Old Ass) is directing the film, which will be the second effort as a writer from Diane Esposito (The Shadow).