Hiroyuki Sanada will face off against Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine playing Lord Shingen Yoshida, a Yakuza crime boss who is the father of Wolverine’s fiancée Mariko.
Rob Corddry is in talks to join director Paul Feig‘s Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy Untitled buddy cop comedy. The plot centers around an FBI agent who teams up with a Boston cop to stop a Russian mobster.
Expendables 2 gets a retro-Eighties poster.
Former actress Lindsay Lohan will join Ashley Tisdale in Scary Movie 5.
Another day means more casting news for Olympus Has Fallen. Melissa Leo is in talks to play a tough Secretary of Defense who cracks when tortured and Ricky Yune is set to play the film’s bad guy, “a North Korean posing as a South Korean ministerial aide who is described as a sociopathic monster.” Also in the Antoine Fuqua helmed film are Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Cole Hauser and Radha Mitchell.
Sony has hired Ethan Cohen to write yet another screenplay for Ghostbusters 3. Bill Murray is thrilled.
Rob Liefeld sold a pitch based on his comic series Bloodstrike to 1984 Films. “The series follows a team of
top-secret super agents/assassins who had died, but were revived by the
government in a secret initiative called Project: Born Again.”
Breck Eisner might be directing the latest toy-to-film adaptation, Stretch Armstrong. Based on the Hasbro toy introduced in the Seventies, which previously had Taylor Lautner attached, Stretch, “was different from other action figures in the sense he could be
stretched out, twisted and folded but always returned to his original
form.”
Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan will rewrite God of War, the studio adaptation of the video game which follows, “the battles of the Spartan warrior Kratos, who squares off
against mythological beasts including Medusa, Cyclops and the Hydra in
his quest to find Pandora’s Box and destroy Ares, the god of war.”
The final book of The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, will arrive in cinemas in two parts arriving on November 21, 2014, and November 20, 2015.
Jason Bateman will likely make his feature directorial debut and possibly star in Bad Words based on a script by Andrew Dodge. The film centers on, “a bitter thirtysomething
who uses a loophole in the system to enter a national kids’ spelling
bee.”
