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TV Casting Round-Up (03.10.17) – Sean Astin to Play Theodore Roosevelt, Josh Radnor Joins Drama High, “Preacher” Lines Up Season Two Cast, & More…
TNT’s The Alienist has tapped Sean Astin to play Theodore Roosevelt, meanwhile How I Met Your Motheralum Josh Radnor is set to lead NBC’s Drama High cast.
Golden Globe-nominated This is Us actress Mandy Moore is stepping into the world of YA novel adaptations with the forthcoming Darkest Minds. Moore is set to join Amandla Stenberg in the sci-fi thriller based on Alexandra Bracken’s YA trilogy, the Tracking Board has confirmed.
Marvel’s Inhumans has added five new castmembers including one mysterious role, and Rosie Perez is set to headline NBC’s Drama High.
Big Bang Theory prequel has found its leads to take on the roles of Sheldon Cooper and his mother, while Alice Eve has landed a the title role in CBS’s Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices.
Agents of SHIELD alum Amy Acker is swapping one Marvel series for another as she boards Fox’s untitled X-Men pilot in the female lead role. Acker joins the project with Emma Dumont and Percy Hynes White.
Lea Michele is saying goodbye to Scream Queens as she joins an untitled comedy on ABC while Dylan McDermott and Austin Stowell both board pilots at Fox. 
Two childhood best friends must deal with a tragic death.
Kourtney Kang lands her idol, Paula Abdul, for her untitled NBC comedy pilot and Brad Garrett returns to CBS with a lead role in The Get.
Blindspot taps MMA fight Ronda Rousey in guest starring role and Tim Robbins is returning to television has he lands the lead role in Alan Ball’s family drama on HBO.
Birdman actress Andrea Riseborough is being eyed to star in the fourth season episode, which is rumored to be titled “Crocodile.”
Suicide Squad actor Alex Meraz joins WGN America’s Scalped, the anticipated drama series based on DC’s graphic novel, and Jeremy Luke reunites with his Magic City co-star Milo Ventimiglia on This is Us
Mae Whitman is a “good girl” in NBC’s pilot, Kiefer Sutherland will reunite with Geoff Pierson on Designated Survivor, and Ilfenesh Hadera has won a lead role in Greg Berlanti’s Deception pilot.
Law & Order maestro Dick Wolf is producing the Paramount project, which involves the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst.
Sometimes, in the world of comedy, the student surpasses the teacher. Other times, like this one, the student becomes the teacher. Thus, Mike Myers is set to play his own comedy mentor, Del Close, in an upcoming indie movie simply titled Del.
IMR International is bringing the new film from writer-director Todd Solondz, Love Child, to Berlin next week, and Penelope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez are attached to star.
After Pestilence, Famine and War murder the man she loves, Death fights to regain her powers to wreak vengeance upon them. 
Molly Ringwald, beloved 80s star, is coming to The CW as Archie’s mom, Mary Andrews, in the upcoming series Riverdale, which is set to premiere in January 2017.
Bruna Papandrea and Reese Witherspoon are in the works on a big screen adaptation of Penguin Bloom with Naomi Watts attached to star. The project is based on the book of the same name from Bradley Trevor Greive.
Writer/director Angela Robinson’s upcoming film Professor Marston & the Wonder Woman has added Connie Britton and Oliver Platt to its all-star cast. The two will join previously announced cast members Rebecca Hall, Luke Evans and Bella Heathcoate. 
The cast for Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Murder on the Orient Express continues to add A-list names to its manifest. The latest to board the pic is Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz who will join the massive cast that includes Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Michael Pena, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Josh Gad.
The life of activist Donna Hylton is set to make its way to the big screen in A Little Piece of Light with Rosario Dawson set to star.
Actress-director-producer Elizabeth Banks is getting into the TV game with Something to Celebrate, a new family comedy which is in development at CBS.
Sterling Road Films’ Untogether starring real-life sisters Jemima and Lola Kirke has added Billy Crystal and Jennifer Grey to the cast. The project is written and directed by best-selling author Emma Forrest, who will be making her feature directing debut.
Lars von Trier’s next feature film, The House that Jack Built, has cast Matt Dillon in the lead role alongside Bruno Ganz. 
Child star turned talk show co-host Raven-Symone is leaving The View and heading back to Disney where a revival of her series That’s So Raven is in the works. 
Dan Krauss’s war documentary-turned-feature The Kill Team has landed Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgard to star. Krauss is set to write and direct the adaptation.
One of the world’s foremost celebrity environmental activists is set to produce a Captain Planet movie at Paramount, the studio with which the newly minted Oscar winner inked a first-look deal back in March. Jono Matt and Glen Powell are in negotiations to write the script based on the 1990s cartoon series, the first feature gig for both.
An upcoming eight-episode family comedy series from Netflix has added Jennifer Jason Leigh, Keir Gilchrist, and Michael Rapaport to its cast. Atypical from The Goldbergs executive producer Robia Rashid follows a family with an autistic son.