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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation star Rebecca Ferguson has signed on to play real-life figure Ruth Harkness in the period drama The Lady and the Panda. The film is directed and co-written by Justin Chadwick with production set to begin in the Himalayas in China next month.
Fox’s P.T. Barnum musical biopic The Greatest Showman continues to fill out its cast with the addition of Rebecca Ferguson. She joins previously cast Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams.
The film will follow Don Quixote and how he believes an advertising executive played by Adam Driver is Sancho Panza, the main character from the classic Do Miguel de Cervante’s novel from 1605.
Daniel Bruhl is the latest to circle the sci-fi thriller God Particle at Paramount. The growing cast includes David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Krasinski, and Elizabeth Debecki.
Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander will star as Lara Croft in the forthcoming reboot of the action-adventure series Tomb Raider, it was announced Thursday.
Rebecca Ferguson is the first actor announced to star in the Skydance sci-fi film Life. The film will be directed by Daniel Espinosa and the script will be penned by Deadpool scribes, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.
Two Tom Cruise vehicles found their leading ladies today: Sofia Boutella in the Mummy reboot and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible 6.
Alicia Vikander is in final negotiations to star opposite James McAvoy in the Wim Wenders romantic thriller Submergence. The film is based on the novel of the same name by J.M. Ledgard.
Maleficent’s Sam Riley is in talks to play the villain opposite Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell, Dreamworks’ adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series.
Lily James has signed on to star as the record-breaking swimmer, Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, based on the book Young Woman And The Sea by Glenn Stout. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the film for Paramount Pictures.
After turning down the female lead in Fox’s X-Men spin-off, Gambit, Rebecca Ferguson is now in talks to join Michael Fassbender and director Tomas Alfredson in The Snowman.
Starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, Wonder Woman already sets high expectations for the rest of the cast. Word has spread that Sean Bean and Eva Green are in early talks to join them.
Brühl and Chastain will star as the real-life couple who used their zoo to help save Jewish lives in Nazi-occupied Poland.
The World War II murder mystery series from BBC lands a director and is in talks with a potential lead.