Jessica Biel will face off against Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine as Viper, a femme fatale and sometime enemy and lover of the character and occasional leader of terrorist organization HYDRA. The Wolverine also stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Will Yun Lee, Brian Tee, Hal Yamanouchi, Rila Fukushima and Tao Okamoto.
Universal has green-lit director Edgar Wright‘s The World’s End. The film will star Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and is the thematic conclusion to the trilogy which includes Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. Wright and Pegg co-wrote the screenplay which will begin shooting in October.
“The film starts 20 years after five childhood friends attempted an epic
pub crawl. The friends reunite when one of them becomes hell-bent on
trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an
encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end
of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once
again attempts to reach the fabled pub, The World’s End. As they attempt
to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is
for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s
End is the least of their worries.”
Gillian Jacobs, Ken Marino and Peter Stormare will star in Milo, directed by Jacob Vaughan and produced by The Duplass Brothers. “The script centers on a man (Marino) with intense stomach trouble who learns to his horror that he has a demon living in his intestines. When he gives it permission to come out during a therapy session, the man names it Milo and tries to live a life in which he, not his demon, is in charge. Jacobs will play Marino’s wife, and one of the stresses in his life. Stormare plays the man’s shrink.”
Dayo Okeniyi, who played Thresh in The Hunger Games, has been cast in two new films. In The Spectacular Now he joins Shailene Woodley, Miles Teller and Brie Larson. The film centers, “on a charismatic high school senior who lives only for the moment.” In Runner, Runner, Okeniyi will play a ph.D. student in th efilm, which centers on a businessman caught up in the world of offshore online gaming. The film stars Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Anthony Anderson, Gemma Arterton and Oliver Cooper.
Diana Agron has been cast as the daughter of Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer in Luc Besson‘s Malavita. “Based on the book Badfellas, the story centers on an American mob boss (De Niro) in the Witness Protection Program who is hiding with his family in the Normandy region of France. But the man can’t stop his Mafia ways and begins to impose his will on the unsuspecting small town he lives in. His actions eventually attracts the mob he squealed on.” Tommy Lee Jones co-stars.
Michael Keaton might join Larry David and Jon Hamm in the upcoming comedy from director Greg Mottola. The film will most be improvised, but based on a treatment by Curb Your Enthusiasm writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel. According to Variety, “Plot is said to involve David and Hamm as characters who each invest in an electric-car company with different goals in mind. When the car becomes a success, David’s character gets his investment back, while Hamm’s businessman becomes extremely rich, causing tension between the duo. Keaton is being recruited to play a crazy businessman named Stumpo, who is David’s friend.”
Sage Stallone, film preservationist, actor and son of Sylvester Stallone passed away unexpectedly. He was 36.
Richard “Dick” Zanuck, 77, passed away following a heart attack. The legendary producer frequently collaborated with director Tim Burton and produced such seminal films as Jaws, The Planet Of The Apes series, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and M*A*S*H*.
Daniel Radcliffe will star in Alexandre Aja‘s adaptation of Joe Hill‘s novel, Horns. “Radcliffe will portray the number one suspect for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. He awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their impulses — an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend’s tragedy.”
Jeremy Slater has been hired by Fox to write the new Fantastic Four movie for director Josh Trank.
Emma Roberts might join the cast of We’re The Millers playing Julia, a 20 year-old runaway with a dark side who pretends to be the daughter of Jason Sudeikis’ and Jennifer Aniston’s fake family while on a cross country vacation.
Evergreen Media Group is developing a contemporary live-action/CGI feature with a new mythology for Batman creator Bob Kane‘s Courageous Cat, which is essentially an anthropomorphic parody of Kane’s Caped Crusader.
