Domingo, Hoffman, Gunning & More Set New Films
A bunch of major casting news has been announced in the past few days and here’s a breakdown of them.
Colman Domingo (“The Running Man”) will join Kerry Washington (“Wake Up Dead Man”) and James Marsden (“Paradise”) in “The Shallows” and “Carry-On” director Jaume Collet-Serra’s new psychological thriller “An Innocent Girl” at Netflix. The story follws a young and ambitious woman seduced by a high-powered D.C. couple who draw her into a dangerous world of sex, power and murder.
Dustin Hoffman (“Megalopolis”) and Adam Sandler (“Happy Gilmore 2”) will play father and son in Scott Cooper’s “Time Out,” a remake of the 2001 French film about a man laid off from his job who pretends to go to work everyday to avoid telling his family. Filming begins in April in Vancouver.
“Baby Reindeer” breakout Jessica Gunning will play singer ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot in biographical drama “My Mama Cass”” about the singer of the 1960s folk group the Mamas & The Papas. Emma Forrest is writing the screenplay.
Shea Wigham (“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning”) and Kelly Hu (“BMF”) have both joined the cast of the second season of the Eric Bana-led “Untamed” at Netflix. The new season sees Bana’s National Parks Service agent investigating a murder on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Liam Hemsworth (“The Witcher”) will join Caleb Landry Jones (“Dracula”), Sarah Pidgeon (“Love Story”), and Dianne Wiest (“Mayor of Kingstown”) in Paul Schrader’s new erotic thriller “Non Compos Mentis”. The story follows two silver-spoon brothers as they deal with their mother’s slow descent into dementia. One is a buttoned-up New York defense attorney; the other is a ruthless corporate heir.
Brie Larson (“Captain Marvel”) will lead “Strange Darling” director JT Mollner’s creature feature “Skeletons” which J.J. Abrams will produce. The story follows a young boy who slowly begins to discover that his beloved parents are hiding a disturbing secret about his mother’s true nature.
Sandra Bernhard (“Marty Supreme”) has joined the cast of the France-set fourth season of HBO’s Emmy-winning satire “The White Lotus”. The legendary comedic actress joins a cast that includes Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Coogan, Caleb Jonte Edwards, Marissa Long, Alexander Ludwig, Chris Messina, and AJ Michalka.
Oscar winner Colin Firth (“Disclosure Day”) has been cast opposite “Slow Horses” alum Jack Lowden in Apple TV‘s untitled drama series based on “Metropolis,” a book in Philip Kerr’s bestselling series “Berlin Noir”. Peter Straughan (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) pens and Tom Shankland (“The Serpent”) directs the series set in 1928 Berlin, where a serial killer targets victims on the fringes of society.
Ariela Barer (“The Last of Us”) is replacing the exiting Odessa A’zion in A24’s “Deep Cuts” from writer and director Sean Durkin (“Iron Claw”) and based on the debut novel by Holly Brickley. The love story isset in the 2000s about two music-obsessed twentysomethings (Cailee Spaeny, Drew Starkey) navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging, and adulthood.
Keira Knightley (“The Woman in Cabin 10”), Alicia Vikander (“Tomb Raider”), Jamie Dornan (“Fifty Shades Freed”) and Erin Kellyman (“Solo: A Star Wars Story”) have been cast in dark comedy “The Worst,” marking the feature directorial debut of Simon Woods.
Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to star in the psychological thriller “Cupid” as a marriage counsellor whose methods push a fractured relationship into increasingly dangerous territory. Tate Taylor directs the film with shooting lined up for late summer-early fall.
David Iacono (“Jurassic World: Rebirth”) will join Kiernan Shipka (“Industry”), Cole Sprouse (“Riverdale”), and Natalia Dyer (“Stranger Things”) in Oran Zegman’s rom com “Goodbye Girl” at Amazon MGM Studios. Shipka plays a professional heartbreaker hired by a cowardly bride to dump her groom days before their wedding.
Nick Jonas is set to star in upcoming action-thriller “Bodyman” directed by Gary Fleder. Shooting will commence in June and the story is set during a family Christmas when an eccentric billionaire unexpectedly signs over his nepo-baby children’s expected inheritance of his private military company to his longtime bodyguard (Jonas).
Dane DeHaan (“American Primeval”), Atticus Mitchell (“Fargo”), Ayo Solanke (“Clown in a Cornfield”), and Elizabeth Perkins (“A Simple Favor”) have joined the recurring cast of the FX psychological family thriller series “Cry Wolf”. The story follows a social worker (Olivia Colman) and a mother (Brie Larson), thrust into crisis when the mother’s teen daughter (Alyvia Alyn Lind) alleges abuse.
Sources: THR, Deadline, Variety, Screen, Nexus Point News