Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth hasn’t really broken out beyond The Hunger Games yet, but he’s certainly trying. Now he has joined the cast of Matt Shakman’s upcoming crime thriller Cut Bank, according to THR.

The movie is about Dwayne McLaren (Hemsworth), who dreams about leaving his hometown of Cut Bank, Montana.

While you’d have thought getting out of town would be easy, his efforts the leave trigger a deadly series of events that change the town and his life forever.

A pretty good cast including John Malkovich, Ben Kingsley, Michael Sheen and Teresa Palmer are lined up to star.

Matt Shakman is directing from a script written by Roberto Patino. Shooting started a couple of days ago.

It’s not often a TV series can boast a cast including Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig, Michael Sheen, Tobey Maguire, Haley Joel Osment, Jessica Alba, Val Kilmer, Steve Tom and Will Ferrell, but The Spoils Of Babylon can. The series comes from Ferrell, Adam McKay, and several other Funny or Die guys, with the show set to air on IFC in the US.

The six-parter will follow a fake book written by fake author Eric Jonrosh (Ferrell). The story will span multiple generations in the oil industry, which allows it to follows plenty of stories, allowing all sorts of famous faces to pop up.

IFC says, ‘The Spoils of Babylon, a century-spanning saga, chronicles the sexy and dramatic lives of the Morehouse family, led by Jonas Morehouse (Robbins), his daughter Cynthia (Wiig) and her adopted brother Devon (Maguire) who made their fortune in the oil business. The series takes viewers from the oil fields of Texas to boardrooms in New York City, through war torn battlefields and velvet-sheeted bedrooms.

‘Cynthia and Devon’s unbridled and taboo passion for one another cannot be prevented. Add in Cynthia’s evil son Winston (Osment), her put upon husband Chet Halner (Sheen), and Devon’s new love interest Dixie Mellonworth (Alba), and the booze, the pills, more passion, more pills and the heartache, and you have a mercurial potboiler. Then add in illegal arms deals, international espionage, the Shah of Iran (Ferrell), and two US Army Generals (Kilmer, Steve Tom) and it begins to overflow with boiling liquid in a pot on a hot stove that is operational.’

Production has already commenced with a 2014 premiere planned.

We’re big fans of Armie Hammer here at BGPS, and can’t help but get excited whenever he signs up for a new movie. Now he’s been announced as part of a great cast that’s been revealed for the sci-fi thriller Cut Bank, with Deadline reporting that Armie Hammer, Ben Kingsley, John Malkovich, Michael Sheen, and Teresa Palmer have all signed up for the film.

The story is set in Cut Bank, Montana, and focusses on a mechanic and an ex-football player who try to out get of the small town, which they discover is frozen in time. It isn’t known which specific characters this quintet of actors will play.

Matt Shakman is directing from a screenplay by Roberto Patino, which landed on the Black List of best unproduced screenplays back in 2009. Entertainment One will start shopping the project to international buyers at the Cannes Film Festival, although it isn’t known when production might begin.