‘Prisoners’ Add More Great Talent By Casting Terrance Howard

Terrence Howard In Prisoners.

Terrence Howard is the latest to join Alcon Entertainment’s Prisoners. No word on what character Howard will be playing yet, but Hugh Jackman is listed as the lead and Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Viola Davis, Maria Bello and Paul Dano are also set to co-star.

Deadline reports that the plot follows “a small-town carpenter Keller(Jackman) whose young daughter and her best friend are abducted. After the police fail to find them, Keller takes the law into his own hands, but in the process runs up against a detective(Gyllenhaal), a hot shot cop with confidence to burn, assigned to the case.”

Aaron Guzikowske is the author of the screenplay, who also wrote Contraband. | Full Story

Jake Gyllenhaal Battles Hugh Jackman in ‘Prisoners’

jake gyllenhaal to star in prisoners

Following the success of End of Watch, Jake Gyllenhaal is suiting up to play a police officer again in Prisoners, an upcoming thriller  with Hugh Jackman and Melissa Leo. As reported by Hitfix, Jackman stars as a Boston man who kidnaps a person he suspects to be behind the disappearance of his young daughter and her best friend, with Gyllenhaal playing a by-the-books detective who opposes Jackman’s vigilantism. Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband) wrote the original screenplay for the film. | Full Story