Director Darren Aronofsky is still putting the final touches on his biblical epic Noah, but he’s already looking towards his next project, as Deadline reports that he is circling Red Sparrow for 20th Century Fox.
He’s in early talks to develop and direct the adaptation of Jason Matthews’ novel, which is set in modern-day Russia. The story follows Dominika Egorova, a spy forced into becoming a ‘sparrow’, who is trained to seduce rival agents. Her first assignment is a CIA operative tasked with handling Russian intelligence, but they soon fall for one another, threatening both their careers and the identities of moles in both the American and Russian governments.
20th Century Fox bought the rights back in April, winning a bidding war that involved multiple studios. There’s no news on when it might shoot.
Christian Bale has been attached to Exodus for a while now, but it seems he’s getting his first castmate as 
The cast only started to come together about a week and a half ago, but with shooting starting next week, Michael Almereyda is having to pull together actors pretty quickly for his modern day take on Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. He’s doing pretty well as he’s already got Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris and Milla Jovovich.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, Kirsten Dunst seemed to by everywhere, but she’s been getting far fewer high profile roles recently. However now she’s signed on to play the female lead in Midnight Special, alongside Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton, according to 
While Jermaine Clement and Bret McKenzie where two of the main faces in front of the camera in Flight Of The Conchords, they actually co-created the show with James Bobin, who’s since gone on to Hollywood success as the director of The Muppets (for which McKenzie won the Best Original Oscar for Man Of Muppet).