CAA is out with THE MAKING OF by Ed Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz. Long-married filmmakers cast overemotional actors to portray their younger selves.
Jessica Chastain is in talks for the lead role in Woman Walks Ahead. The project is helmed by Susanna White and was written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Follows a 19th century Brooklyn artist and activist who moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftan Sitting Bull fight to keep the land for his people.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Has started shooting in New Orleans, and to celebrate they added another actor to the cast – perennial tough guy Holt McCallany.
After multiple reports that actors are entering negotiations for Jack Reacher’s next adventure, we finally have a firm cast for this film — the latest being the villain.
Aldis Hodge is the next in a line of actors who are in talks to join Tom Cruise in the next installment of the Jack Reacher franchise, to be directed by Ed Zwick.
The actress who brought to life Marvel’s Agent Maria Hill might be joining another action franchise.
Centers on the life story of American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky.
More of the violent exploits of Jack Reacher are coming, as sources reveal that The Last Samurai‘s Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are in heavy talks to re-write the currently untitled sequel, with Zwick also in talks to helm.
Logline: Reacher heads back to his old military base in Virginia to take a woman to dinner who is now the commanding officer but by the time he gets there, she has been arrested and he finds himself being charged with beating a man and fathering a child with a woman, neither of which he remembers doing.
Logline: Pitched as “Macbeth” meets “The Departed.” The story is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s play that focuses on the tragic rise and fall of NYPD Officer Sean Stewart, a heroic narcotics detective pushed to the dark side of police corruption by his scheming wife and a well-timed prophecy.
Director breathes new life into dying project.
Logline: A young mechanic and former high school football star attempts to leave his tiny home town but sets off a series of events that will change his life forever.
Logline: Centers on the life story of American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky.
Logline: Tells the true tale of John Keller, an ex-Marine, who in the wake of disaster, orchestrated the rescue of 244 fellow residents after their building was flooded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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