• Warner Bros. and Pearl Street Films have set video game writer Will Staples (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) to pen the script for an Africa-set geopolitical thriller for Oscar-winner Ben Affleck to star in and direct. The story is about a group of mercenaries hired to kill a warlord. Affleck is currently shooting the big screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl where he plays lead Nick Dunne. After that he’ll direct and star in Live By Night and then tackle his role as Batman in the Man of Steel follow-up. [Deadline]
• Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) is in talks...
• Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) is in talks...
- 10/26/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
John Robinson, Jon Abrahams and Lorraine Nicholson will star in the indie thriller “Room 105,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Patrick Mulvihill is writing and directing the movie, which is being produced by Doug Fox of Another Film Fund. Plot details were not immediately available, and production is currently under way in Missouri. Also Read: Owen Wilson Comedy Casts ‘Lords of Dogtown’ John Robinson (Exclusive) Robinson, who was discovered by director Gus Van Sant and subsequently cast as the lead in “Elephant,” recently wrapped Peter Bogdanovich’s showbiz comedy “Squirrels to the Nuts” and the psychological thriller “Intruder.
- 10/25/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
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