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Gina Torres joins The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez; Blair Underwood is tapped for Reese Witherspoon pilot; 24: Legacy builds up its cast and more in this week’s TV casting round-up!
Lando himself has joined ABC’s Dirty Dancing remake; Training Day has recruited Drew Van Acker; Georgina Haig will head to Mars for the CW; and more in today’s TV casting round-up!
Fresh off of the wild success of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds has already jumped into his next project — and Salma Hayek and Elodie Yung are joining him. The three will star together in The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which is set to start production in April.
Vanessa Hudgens joins NBC’s DC Universe-based office comedy Powerless, Felicity Huffman and John Ridley extend their relationship, Hina Abdullah joins The Jury and more in today’s TV Casting news.
Joe Wright is set to explore the supernatural world in the thriller, The Ruins. Wright is partnering with Fox Searchlight under his own production company Shoebox Films to develop the film set in India.
Logline kept under wraps.
Tony Danza and Arielle Kebbel each book NBC pilots; Kelly Oxford and Molly McNearey head to TV Land; Andy Daly joins Anna Gunn in Chuck & Bean; and more in today’s TV casting news!
Pierce Brosnan has found his next leading role in a cinematic take on Ernest Hemingway’s novel Acorss The River And Into The Trees. Martin Campbell, who directed Brosnan in GoldenEye, will helm the adaptation.
Official Secrets has cast Natalie Dormer, Paul Bettany, Harrison Ford, Martin Freeman, and Anthony Hopkins in lead roles. The espionage thriller, based on a true story, will be directed by Justin Chadwick and was penned by Young & Hungry List Alums Sara and Gregory Bernstein.
Robert Zemeckis has cast Jared Harris in his next feature, an untitled spy thriller set in World War II. He joins Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
Silver Ghost is bringing in Asif Kapadia to direct the real life story following the creation of the infamous vehicle. Martin Scorsese’s Silkelia Productions and Zuma Productions will co-produce the film.
Jon S. Baird’s Stan & Ollie has found its titular stars in Coogan and Reilly. Penned by Philomela‘s Jeff Pope, the pic will follow the highs and lows of the iconic Laurel & Hardy and their legendary 1953 tour.
Diego Boneta and Agyness Deyn have signed on to join the ensemble cast of the growing cast of The Titan which already includes Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling , Ruth Wilson, and Tom Wilkinson. In addition to Boneta and Deyn, the sci-fi feature has also added Aleksander Jovanovic.
Edgar Wright has signed on for his first animated feature. It was announced today he is set to helm an untitled project from DreamWorks Animation. Wright will co-write the script with David Walliams.
The film will serve as a remake of the 1953 film of the same name, which was an adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel. The story follows a group of desperate men who are hired to transport a shipment of highly explosive nitroglycerin across the jungle.
Follows a group of desperate men who are hired to transport a shipment of highly explosive nitroglycerin across the jungle.
Working Title has set Jon Croker to adapt The Famous Five by Enid Blyton after picking up the rights last year. There are over 20 novels in the series following the adventures of a group of four young children and their dog Timmy.
Alice Eve has joined Bees Make Honey as both its star and producer. The film is a British indie written by her brother, Jack Eve, who is also set to direct.
StudioCanal and David Heyman are bringing back Paul King to write and direct the sequel to the hid Paddington. The film is based on the British children’s book character “Paddington Bear,” who first appeared back in 1958.
With a powerhouse package of talent, from the source material to the star, Fox is looking to get a pretty sweet deal if it picks up the Neil Gaiman-based film.
Butterfield will now star in the comedy as a young grim reaper caught between the land of the living and oblivion. Stanley Tucci and Flight of the Conchords/What We Do in the Shadows star Jemaine Clement have also joined the cast.
Fresh off of her final season on AMC’s hit series Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss is now joining the biopic about Rocky inspiration Chuck Wepner. The Bleeder, starring Liev Schreiber as Wepner, centers on the boxer’s claim to fame after he shocked the world by knocking Muhammad Ali to the canvas.
Matt Charman moves out from behind the typewriter and into production as a producer based on the true story of the Battle for Alcatraz that happened in 1946 when six inmates attempted to escape.
Arterton to star in the the script from Catherine Shepherd as a modern-day woman chosen to carry the next Messiah. The script made the 2011 Brit List.
O’Connell and Hoult are circling the roles John Lennon and Brian Epstein in a new biopic centered around their legendary relationship throughout the 1960s.
Weisz is in talks to replace Kate Winslet in the Queen Anne period film The Favourite. The casting would reunite Weisz with
The creator of the Idris Elba-led detective series Luther has been tapped to writer 20th Century Fox’s Escape From New Yorkremake. The remake of John Carpenter’s 1981 classic is being produced by Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman of The Picture Company.