About Tim Isaac

A new poster and seven fresh images from the mega-budget zombie movie World War Z have emerged, showing off Brad Pitt looking pretty panicked as an undead scourge takes of the planet.

The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Merielle Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.

The $200 million movie is due out June 21st 2013 (reshoots delayed it from a planned Christmas 2012 release). Click on the pics below for larger versions.

It’s been a long time since we heard about this movie. Indeed the last time news emerged it didn’t have a name, but it was revealed that it would reunite Ben Stiller and Greenberg writer/director Noah Baumbach. At the time James Franco was also involved, and offers had been made to Greta Gerwig and Cate Blachett.

Fast forward a couple of years and Stiller is still attached but the other actors have gone. Instead TheWrap reports that Amanda Seyfried is in talks to join the film, with Adam Driver and Naomi Watts taking the other main roles. Oh, and it’s got a name, While We’re Young.

The film is about about a free-spirited Brooklynite twenty-something couple (Seyfried and Driver) who inspires an uptight documentarian (Stiller) and his wife (Watts) to loosen up – with comedic consequences. There’s no news on exactly when it might shoot.

Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace recently made Animal Rescue together and they’re planning to team again for Child 44 later this year. Gary Oldman and Joel Kinnaman have already joined them in the film, and now they have some more company, as TheWrap reports that Paddy Considine and Sweden’s Fares Fares are in talks to star in the movie.

Child 44 is set in 1950s Russia, with Hardy as a Soviet military police officer who becomes the target of his suspicious government while he’s investigating a string of child murders. Joel Kinnaman will play the killer responsible for these brutal deaths, while Noomi Rapace is Hardy’s wife. Oldman meanwhile is the head of police who becomes suspicious of Hardy’s character and starts investigating him.

There’s no news on exactly who Considine will play, but Fares will be one of Hardy’s trusted allies. Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) is set to direct.

The main cast of Fouad Mikati’s (Operation: Endgame) film Return To Sender has been announced, with THR reporting that Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, and Nick Nolte have signed up to star.

The movie is about a small town nurse (Rosamund Pike) who goes on a blind date with a mysterious man (Shiloh Fernandez), and suffers a life-altering event shortly thereafter, which she spends much of the rest of the movie trying to overcome. Nick Nolte is playing the nurse’s father.

Patricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossett wrote the screenplay, with Holly Wiersma and Candice Abela producing and Logan Levy executive producing. Shooting is currently under way in New Orleans.

Gael Garcia Bernal

A couple of months ago it was revealed that Jon Stewart was taking 12-week break from The Daily Show, so that he can make his feature-film directorial debut with Rosewater. Now he’s signed his first star, as TheWrap reports that Gael García Bernal has signed up to take the lead role.

Stewart also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from Maziar Bahari’s 2011 book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival. The book recounts the author/journalist’s time in Iran, where he was supposed to go for one week to cover the country’s national elections. Instead, he was held in an Iranian prison for 118 days, tortured and interrogated by a mysterious man who the writer described as smelling of rosewater.

Gael García Bernal will play the reporter, who left his pregnant fiancée behind in London for what he thought was a routine assignment. Shooting is scheduled to begin later this summer.

Last week Joss Whedon confirmed that Quicksilver will appear in The Avengers 2. Now director Bryan Singer has tweeted that the character will also be in X-Men: Days of Future Past, played by American Horror Story star Evan Peters.

Singer said, ‘Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a REALLY fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen#DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver.’

As Bryan Singer mentions in his announcement, Quicksilver (a.k.a. Pietro Maximoff) was a part of the X-Men universe before becoming an Avenger with his sister Scarlet Witch (a.k.a. Wanda Maximoff). Quicksilver is the son of Magneto, played by both Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen in the X-Men universe, using his power of super-human speed to do evil for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

It’s unusual that a comic book character can appear in film franchises run by two different studios, but apparently there’s a special clause about Quicksilver because of his strong presence in both the X-Men and Avengers worlds. Apparently the way it works is that Quicksilver can appear in an Avengers film as long as his X-Men past and Magneto parentage aren’t mentioned. He’s almost certain to be played by a different actor in Avengers 2.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is currently shooting in Montreal.