Jake Abel is probably feeling slightly relieved that people always just look at him and see a villain, as having played bad guys in both Percy Jackson and I Am Number Four, he’s just landed a slightly different type of role in The Host, the planned adaptation of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s novel.
Abel is is talks to play Ian, according to Deadline, one of the last remaining humans whose brain hasn’t been co-opted by the invasive alien ‘souls’, that are taking people over one by one. Saoirse Ronan is set to play the central character, Melanie Stryder, who has a soul named Wanderer implanted in her mind. However while normally Melanie’s personality would be expected to fade into the background, her emotions and memories overwhelm the invader and makes it change its mind about its races master plan.
Director Andrew Niccol is now down to the last few finalists for the other main male role of Luke, with Liam Hemsworth, Max Irons, Kit Harington and Jai Courtney on the shortlist. Expect to hear who got the part soon.
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It may have taken them a while to get Taken 2 ready for filming, but it’s now gearing up to shoot, and new cast members are coming on-board to join returnees Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace. The latest to sign up is Luke Grimes, according to 
After Captain America, Hayley Atwell is much in demand, and it seems she wants to keep with the historical sci-fi flavour as she’s signed up to start in The Return Of Captain Nemo, according to 
Many people wondered why the Academy chose Brett Ratner to produce this year’s Oscar ceremony in the first place, but we don’t need to ponder about that any more, as he’s out, having resigned from the position following some incredibly unwise anti-gay comments and talking about his sex life, while out promoting Tower Heist.
Director Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me) may have had the piss taken out of him for his activist ways on South Park (where he was painted as a bit of an anti-smoking fascist), he’s always been a good friend of the gay cause. Now 
You’d have thought that with a large chunk of the world already thinking he’s a bit of a rubbish director, Brett Ratner (X-Men: the Last Stand, Rush Hour) wouldn’t want anyone to think he’s a douche in real life as well, but it seems he’s spent much of the past week being just that. After apologising a couple of days ago on The Howard Stern Show for suggesting he’d slept with actress Olivia Munn (even he admitted he’d made her sound like a slut), he’s now in trouble for using homophobic slurs at a screening of his new movie, Tower Heist.
Although Clive Owen seems to like to see himself as an action star, the rest of the world doesn’t appear to be as convinced. That doesn’t mean he’s going to give up though, as he’s attached to Recall, based on a script by Taxi Driver writer, Paul Schrader.
You’d have thought that with last week’s James Bond press conference also marking the start of shooting, they’d have announced all the main cast then, but it appears a couple of names slipped through the net, as the official