Casting Net: Helena Bonham Carter is in final negotiations to reprise her role as the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, Disney’s follow-up to 2010′s box office sensation Alice in Wonderland. Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska are also returning as the Mad Hatter and Alice in the James Bobin-directed sequel set for a May 27, 2016 release. Taraji P. Henson (Person of Interest) will star in Universal’s Term Life, starring Vince Vaughn and Hailee Steinfeld. Peter Billingsley is directing the film about a heist man for hire who botched a job and is now on the run from all the seedy characters he’s done business with. Bates Motel’s Olivia Cooke is in talks to star in Me & Earl & the Dying Girl — Jesse Andrews’ 2012 Black List adaptation of his own novel. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Town That Dreaded Sundown) will direct the coming-of-age tale about a Pittsburgh high school student whose mother compels him to befriend a sick girl. House of Cards actors Sebastian Arcelus (Lucas Goodwin) and Gerald McRaney (Raymond Tusk) have boarded the cast of The Best of Me, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel about former high school sweethearts who reunite when a mutual friend dies. Michael Hoffman (The Last Station) will direct the film which also stars James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan. Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones), and Drew Roy (Falling Skies) have boarded the dark comedy thriller Sugar Mountain about family and a hoax gone wrong. Richard Gray (Lookalike) is directing. Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) has been cast as the tribal princess Tiger Lily in director Joe Wright’s live-action epic Pan. Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift) wrote the script. Warner Bros. has set a July 17, 2015, release date for Pan. Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, Variety, The Wrap, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:00:02 +0000