Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of Insidious: Chapter 3 for writer / director Leigh Whannell. The film is set for an April 3, 2015 release.
Ben Kingsley is set to voice Bagheera in Disney’s The Jungle Book for director Jon Favreau with a script by Justin Marks. He joins Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o and Scarlett Johansson in the live action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story, set to arrive in theaters in 3D on October 9, 2015.
Paul and Chris Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy) are set to remake the 2013 Cannes Jury Prize winner Like Father, Like Son for Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks. The film follows a father after learning his biological son was switched with another child after birth. [Variety]
[amz asin=”1451645619″ size=”small”]Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is set to star in A House in the Sky for Annapurna Pictures. The true-life kidnapping tale is based on the memoir of Amanda Lindhout, whose deep passion for exploration of the world’s most remote and perilous places, took an unexpected turn when she was abducted in 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia by a rebel terrorist group. The story is an account of her fifteen months in captivity.
Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace) is currently working on the Whitey Bulger pic Black Mass starring Johnny Depp, but his next pic is already taking shape in the form of a story telling of the members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighter crew who perished in last year’s Yarnell Hill wildfire in Prescott, Arizona. There was only a single survivor from the 20-man crew in what was to become the largest loss of firefighters since 9/11 and the greatest loss of wildland firefighters in 80 years. Ken Nolan (Black Mass) is writing the script. [Variety]
Tate Taylor (The Help, Get On Up) is apparently eying a screenplay titled In the Event of a Moon Disaster, which will be a fictional take on the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing based on Pulitzer Prize winning author and presidential speechwriter William Safire’s speech of the same name, written in case things didn’t go as planned. I can’t for the life of me imagine what makes this something worth filming, but apparently screenwriter Mike Jones has come up with something intriguing. [The Wrap]
