Jeremy Irons and Emmy Rossum (Shameless) has joined the cast of the
Warner Bros. adaptation of the young adult supernatural novel series Beautiful Creatures. Richard
LaGravenses will direct the film and write the screenplay, based on the first
novel written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The plot follows two teenage
lovers –the local boy and a mysterious new girl- in small Southern town who
uncover dark secrets about their families past. Dark witches and mean girls
will abound. Rossum joins already cast Jack O'Connell and Alice Englert, along
with Viola Davis and Emma Thompson.
Irish actress Ruth Bradley (In Her Skin) has landed the female lead
in ABC’s pilot Beauty and the Beast.
Scottish singer-actor Darius Campbell was already cast as the Beast. This is a
fantasy re-imagining of the classic Beauty
and the Beast tale, which will make it somewhat different from the CW’s
grittier, New York City based one. This Belle will have an unlikely connection to
a mysterious beast named, Shiro, who is a mercenary bodyguard.
With a lot of shows on “the
bubble” (they’re at a tipping point between being renewed or cancelled, but no
one knows which yet) The River's Paul Blackthorne is
covering his bases and has reportedly been cast in Arrow as Detective Quentin Lance, the father of Green Arrow's love
interest Laurel. He’ll play the detective who is out to bring Green Arrow to
justice on this CW pilot. On the unlikely hood The River gets a second season, Blackthrone would be forced to
return to that. Also added is Jamey Sheridan, who’ll play Green Arrow’s father,
Robert Queen. Susanna Thompson is playing his mother. Also joining Arrow in a recurring role is British
actor Colin Salmon (Resident Evil,
GoldenEye), who will play Walter Steele, a former business associate of
Oliver’s late father Robert Queen and now married Oliver’s mother.
Hills Have Eyes and Piranha
director Alexandre Aja is negotiating to helm Undying Love, an adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel. The
story revolves around an ex-soldier who falls for a vampire, though in order to
be with her, he must take on her creator, who is protected by an army of
monsters in the Hong Kong underworld.
Paramount Pictures announced
they’re movie the Brad Pitt zombie film World
War Z from December 21, 2012 to June 21, 2013. It’s possible that their moving
the film from an already crowed holiday season -away from such films as The Hobbit and Django Unchained and The
Great Gatsby among others- because they see it as a summer film? Meanwhile,
the studio has a set a Christmas Day 2013 release date for their Jonathan Liebesman-directed
live action reboot of Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles.
The Chronicles of Narnia star William Moseley has scored the lead
in The CW pilot The Selection. This Hunger Games style plot is set some 300
years in the future and centers on America Singer (Aimee Teegarden), a poor
young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to marry
Prince Maxon (Ethan Peck) and become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a
crossroads. Moseley will play Aspen, a working class servant who loves her.
Ever since Universal dropped the Ron
Howard’s proposed film-trilogy-and-TV-series adaptation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower books due to the huge price
tag, his Imagine Entertainment have been trying to find someone to pick-up the
movie part of the franchise –Brian Grazer said back in October the 2 season of
22-episode TV element would be produced through HBO. Now it looks like it could
find a home at Warner Bros., as word has come that screenwriter Akiva Goldman
Has been hired by the studio to “polish” up his script –which Deadline says
might be a studio code for “make it cheaper.”
Leonardo Cimino, who spent more
than 60 years as an in-demand character actor -which included roles as
gangsters, grandfathers, the pope, Vincent van Gogh - died on March 3 at his
home in Woodstock, N.Y. at the age of 94. In television, he appeared in the
original version of the science-fiction mini-series V and in shows like Kojak
and Law & Order. His many movies
included Dune, The Freshman and Moonstruck.
He played the pope in the 1982 film Monsignor and the “Scary German Guy” in The Monster Squad.
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