The Tracking Board Daily Debrief (10.20.16)

Battlefield 1 Directors Fredrik Akerstrom and Marcus Kryler on Their Transition From Short Films to Blockbuster Video Games

The directing duo that helmed award-winning sci-fi short Reset, talked to us from Sweden about the highly anticipated Battlefield 1 and the merging of cinema and video games and the obstacles that go along with it.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is the Latest to Join Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time

Director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time has been no stranger to landing big and talented names since the film’s casting got underway. The latest addition is Gugu Mbatha-Raw, known for her roles in films such as Belle and Concussion.

Josh Gad Boards Murder on the Orient Express

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express has added Josh Gad to the all-star cast. The film is an adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel of the same name.

More News From Around The Web

• Hulu has put in development single-camera half-hour comedy Unhinged from writing and performing duo Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael, and former 30 Rock executive producer John Riggi. (Deadline)

• Tom Hardy is set to play Ernest Shackleton, the real-life famed explorer who endured the Antarctic a century ago.  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy scribe Peter Straughan is writing the as-yet untitled film, which will be financed by Studiocanal. (Indiewire)

• CBS has given a straight-to-series order to Salvation, an event series from Alex Kurtzman which is described as a suspense thriller, Salvation centers on an MIT grad student and a tech superstar who bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery — that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Filmmaker Michael Moore’s Trumpland is not the only anti-Donald Trump documentary around this political season. You’ve Been Trumped Too drops on October 28, first in theaters in New York and Los Angeles before rolling out across the country. (Deadline)

• Paolo Sorrentino is at work on a second series of The Young Pope, the hot TV series toplining Jude Law as conservative cigarette-smoking American pontiff Pius XIII, which will have its on-air debut on Rupert Murdoch’s Sky pay-TV Friday, after launching from the Venice Film Festival. (Variety)

• Fox is teaming with Vine star King Bach (aka Andrew Bachelor) for a new comedy that centers on a former Navy SEAL struggling to adjust back to civilian life who forms a team of mercenaries with questionable skills. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Fox, the network of New Girl, is developing another comedy about a young woman with a messy personal life. The untitled single-camera comedy is from actress-writer Erin Foster and Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions. (Deadline)