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Emma Thompson Joins Supernatural Drama Beautiful Creatures

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Richard LaGravenese’s supernatural love story, Beautiful Creatures, is certainly pulling together a strong supporting cast, as THR reports that Emma Thompson has joined the recently cast Viola Davis in the teen supernatural drama.

Beautiful Creatures is about a teen boy and girl who must confront a curse that has haunted the girl’s family for generations. Thompson is set to play dual roles as Mrs. Lincoln, a small town religious zealot, and Sarafine, who is the dark witch who possesses her.

The project is a adaptation of a Margaret Stohl-Kami Garcia novel. Richard LaGravenese is directing with Erwin Stoff and Molly Smith producing. Hollywood newcomers Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert have also joined the cast. Filming will begin in April in New Orleans.

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Brendan Gleeson & Chris O’Dowd Join Cavalry

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The Guard was a surprisingly big hit (and a great movie), particularly in Ireland, where it became the country’s biggest homegrown success ever. Now the director of that movie, John Michael McDonagh, is planning his follow up, with THR reporting that Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, and Aidan Gillen have joined the cast of Cavalry.

The dark comedy centres on a priest (Brendan Gleeson) who is told during a confession that he will be murdered within one week. Chris O’Dowd, and Aidan Gillen will play members of his community, the Irish town of Sligo. Kelly Reilly and David Wilmot also star as Sligo residents.

Production is scheduled to start in September, with a budget of $7 million.

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Henry Cavill Climbs Ed Zwick’s Great Wall

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Henry Cavill’s star is set to soar later this year when he stars as Superman in Man Of Steel. He’s already setting up his follow-up projects, with Variety reporting that he’s in talks to star in The Great Wall for director Edward Zwick.

News of the project first emerged last August, as it’s is the first project to be developed under Legendary Pictures’ new Legendary East banner, which hopes to make movies with global appeal but of special interest to Asian audiences. The story centres on how The Great Wall of China was first built and the mysterious circumstances which lead China to construct it. No character details were given for Henry Cavill’s role – and it’ll be interesting to see who he does play, as there weren’t that many white people in China thousands of years ago when the the First Emperor started construction on the wall.

Edward Zwick is directing The Great Wall from a script he is co-writing with Marshall Herskovitz. It isn’t known when production will begin on The Great Wall.

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Morgan Freeman On For Joseph Kosinski’s Horizons

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It’s taken quite a while, but Joseph Kosinski is now pulling together the cast for his upcoming film Horizons (formerly known as Oblivion), with the latest to sign on, according to Deadline, being Morgan Freeman.

Horizons follows Tom Cruise’s central character, one of the last people on an uninhabitable Earth who repairs space ships and keeps an eye out for alien attacks. The man goes on a journey of discovery when a mysterious woman crash lands on the planet. Morgasn will apparently play Malcolm Beech, the leader of the human resistance on Earth.

Olga Kurylenko and Andrea Riseborough have been cast as the two female leads. It isn’t known when production will start on Horizons, but it’s believed to be relatively soon.

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Naomi Watts Set To Play Princess Diana

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I’m sure the Daily Express is up in arms today, as it’s been announced that Naomi Watts – who’s an Aussie but was actually born in Britain – will play the role of Princess Diana in the upcoming movie Caught in Flight.

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel ( Downfall), and based on the screenplay by Stephen Jeffreys, production will begin in the UK later this year. Caught in Flight will look at Diana during the last two years of her life. It charts how finding true personal happiness for the first time allowed her to achieve her defining successes evolving into a major international campaigner and humanitarian. So basically it sounds like it’s going to continue the attempts to turn her into a saint.

Naomi Watts comments “It is such an honor to be able to play this iconic role – Princess Diana was loved across the world, and I look forward to rising to the challenge of playing her on screen.”

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Iron Sky Trailer – There are Nazis on the moon!

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A couple of years ago a trailer appeared online for a planned movie called Iron Sky, which was made in the hope it would ignite interest in getting the whole thing made. It must have worked, as the film is now incoming, and looks as insane but potentially entertaining as it did a couple of years ago.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

‘When American astronaut James Washington (Christopher Kirby) puts down his Lunar Lander a bit too close to the secret Nazi base, the Moon Führer (Udo Kier) decides the glorious moment of retaking the Earth has arrived sooner than expected. Washington claims the mission is just a publicity stunt for the President of the United States (Stephanie Paul), but what else could the man be but a scout for the imminent attack by Earth forces? The Fourth Reich must act!

‘Two Nazi officers, ruthless Klaus Adler (Götz Otto) and idealistic Renate Richter (Julia Dietze), travel to Earth to prepare the invasion. In the end when the Moon Nazi UFO armada darkens the skies, ready to strike at the unprepared Earth, every man, woman and nation alike, must re-evaluate their priorities.’

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Tom Felton, Elizabeth Olsen & Glenn Close Up For Therese Raquin

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Daniel Radcliffe isn’t the only Harry Potter actor carving out a bright post-Hogwarts career. There’s also Tom Felton (aka Draco Malfoy), who Deadline reports has signed up to star in Therese Raquin, alongside Elizabeth Olsen and Glenn Close. And this time Tom doesn’t have to play the villain, as he’s gonna be the victim!

The project is based Emile Zola’s 1867 novel, which was later turned into a famous stage play. The story centres on the title character (Elizabeth Olsen), who murders her sickly husband Camille (Tom Felton) with the help of Laurent, her new lover. Years later, she discovers Camille is haunting her new marriage with Laurent, turning each of them against each other. Glenn Close will play Therese Raquin’s mother, who arranged the marriage with Camille.

Charlie Stratton (Formosa Betrayed) is directing from his own screenplay, although it’s not certain when shooting will begin.

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Tom Hanks Set To Play Walt Disney?

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Disney making a film about Walt Disney is either a perfect fit or too close to home. It may be happening though as Deadline reports the studio is close to picking up Saving Mr. Banks, Kelly Marcel’s script that landed on the 2011 Black List. It already has high-profile talent interested in it, with Tom Hanks reportedly sniffing around to play Walt Disney, with Meryl Streep as author PL Travers.

The fact-based script follows Disney’s 14-year odyssey to get Travers to sell him the screen rights to her novel, Mary Poppins. The book was highly personal for Travers, and reflected hardships in her own life and her relationship with her father, who died when she was seven. As a result she was extremely reluctant to let go of it.

Eventually Disney persuaded her, but while the film became an instant classic, Travers had difficulty with it to the end. She hated the animated sequences in the film so much that she refused to sell any of her other works to Disney.

Nothing’s been signed yet and Hanks and Streep are only rumours at the moment, but expect to hear more when and if Disney buys the script.

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Sullivan Stapleton Takes 300: Battle Of Artemisia Lead

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Although 300: Battle Of Artemesia is a prequel to the Gerard Butler starring hit, it follows different characters and so a whole new cast is needed. Now one piece of that puzzle has fallen into place, as Variety reports that Animal Kingdom star, Sullivan Stapleton is in final talks for a leading role in 300: Battle of Artemisia.

It isn’t known exactly what character Sullivan Stapleton will portray in 300: Battle of Artemisia, as there’s some confusion over whether it’ll be Xerxes or Themistocles, with most of the latest reports pointing to the latter. It would make sense for Rodrigo Santoro to return to play Xerxes (he’s apparently been in talks), as he’s one of the few characters who appears in both movies, with Battle Of Artemisia looking at his rivalry with Themistocles and quest for godhood.

A while ago, fellow Animal Kingdom star Joel Edgerton was in talks to star in 300: Battle of Artemisia, probably for the same role that Stapleton’s now taken, although he dropped out to join Kathryn Bigelow’s untitles hunt Osama Bin Laden project. Back in December Eva Green was in talks to portray Artemisia, but it isn’t known if that deal was ever finalized.

Noam Murro is directing 300: Battle of Artemisia from a screenplay by 300 co-writers Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad. It isn’t known when production will begin on 300: Battle of Artemisia.

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Billy Connolly Rounds Out Hobbit Cast

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The Hobbit may have been shooting for months, but with a year long production schedule, it’s still adding cast members, with the last being Billy Connolly, who Variety reports will play the dwarf Dain Ironfoot.

The character is a mighty dwarf and a cousin of Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). Here’s what director Peter Jackson had to say about his final cast member, “We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of Dwarves, than Billy Connolly, the Big Yin himself. With Billy stepping into this role, the cast of The Hobbit is now complete. We can’t wait to see him on the Battlefield!”

Peter Jackson is shooting both The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and its follow-up, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, back-to-back. It isn’t known if Dain Ironfoot will appear in both movies, but it seems likely he will be more prominently featured in the second, The Hobbit: There and Back Again.

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