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After considerable set backs, the indie film Jane got A Gun moved back into the production phase after Bradley Cooper agreed to join the cast. Cooper is replacing Jude Law, who abandoned the film after original director Lynne Ramsay dropped out of the project due to creative differences.
Jane Got A Gun follows a woman who asks an ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang, which is out to kill him. | Full Story
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is the latest to join director Paul W.S. Anderson’s period piece Pompeii. A film, that sounds remarkably similar to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, but I will try my best to ignore that and stay on topic.
The British actor joins cast members Kit Harington, Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Browning. He will play an enslaved gladiator who comes to the rescue of Harington’s character.
Pompeii is set in AD 79 Rome and tells the tale of an enslaved gladiator played by Harington who faces the Tyrant played by Sutherland who years before murdered his entire family and now threatens to steal his lover played by Emily Browning. | Full Story
Although some people, like Kristen Dunst, consider him a hippie cool dude with a nasty kiss, Brad Pitt has no qualms playing a violent bad ass character in a war movie.
The Inglorious Bastards actor, who also starred in the Fight Club and Kick Ass films, is currently in the final stages of negotiations for a lead role in the David Ayer-directed World War II thriller, Fury.
The film is set in Europe during the final days of the Third Reich. | Full Story
Liam Hemsworth has been targeted to star in the Sci-Fi thriller feature film version of The Raven.
The Raven was originally a short film, which was director Ricardo De Montreuil, and bought by Universal pictures three years ago to be made into a feature length film.
According to reports, Hemsworth is currently in talks to play the lead of the film, Chris Black. The Raven is based on the story which follows Black, who possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and the opposition will stop at nothing to destroy him. | Full Story
Zoe Saldana is in talks with Marvel to join the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy. The film, part of “Phase Two” of the Marvel cinematic universe, hits theaters August 1st, 2014. Saldana is being courted for the role of Guardian Gamora.
This is Gamora:
She will hopefully have a much more sensible outfit in the movie. Like many superheroes, she is the sole surviving member of her race, who were wiped out by alien invaders. | Full Story
Looks like things are really coming together for the part CGI/ part live action Michael Bay movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Funnyman, Will Arnett officially joins the cast, however in what capacity is still unknown.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that the only available roles include Splinter, the wise and smart rat who aides the Turtles, or Shredder, a masked and mysterious bad guy. It has been confirmed that Arnett is NOT taking on the human role of Casey, but that role is yet to be cast. | Full Story
As pilot season is rapidly coming to an end, Omar J. Dorsey snags a role on Fox’s pilot Rake playing Roy the bookie.
Rake follows the chaotic world of criminal defense lawyer Cleaver Greene. He’s a brilliant, iconoclastic, innately self-destructive, with mind-numbing lack of discretion and a total inability to pause before speaking his mind kind of guy. Cleaver counsels bigamist to cannibals and everything in between, but the clients Cleaver loves most are the ones whose cases appear to be utterly hopeless. | Full Story
Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she’ll be reprising her role in the Finding Nemo sequel, titled Finding Dory.
The talk show host voiced the bumbling, forgetful, annoying but lovable blue tang fish in the original film — which happened to gross $380 million at the domestic box office and $922 million worldwide – so you see why there had to be a sequel.
“I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time,” DeGeneres said in a statement. | Full Story
William H. Macy has acquired an all-star cast for his directorial debut entitled Rudderless.
Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Selena Gomez are the latest to join the cast of the film, which already had on board Felicity Huffman and Macy himself. The details of their roles are unclear at this time, but I suspect more information will be forthcoming later this week.
Rudderless is based on an original story by Macy, and was adapted to film with the help of Casey Twenter and Jeff Robinson. | Full Story
If you’re turned on by the secrecy surrounding director Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, Man Of Steel, then perhaps you shouldn’t read any further. On the other hand, if you’re hungry for details and wish to see the wall of silence come crashing down, read on because a new juicy and tantalizing casting rumor has surfaced.
Creating what may be one of the first nicks in that wall, Ain’t It Cool has reported that famed Superman villain Lex Luthor will appear in Man of Steel, probably in a similar way to how Norman Osborn appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man: with teasing “logos” and imagery. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
