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Ryan Reynolds is in early talks to star in TriStar’s adaptation of Graeme Simsion’s book “The Rosie Project”.
Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber adapted the script. Matt Tolmach and Michael Costigan are producing.
The book is described as follows:
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don’s Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.
The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.
Cillian Murphy will have a supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s WWII action-thriller “Dunkirk”.
Fionn Whitehead, Jack Lowden, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh and Harry Styles are also in the movie.
While plot details remain scarce, we do know the film will centre on the WWII evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, saving around 330,000 soldiers trapped in the harbour by the German army.
The cast of Mark Wahlberg’s Boston Marathon Bombing film “Patriots Day” continues to grow with Rachel Brosnahan and Christopher O’Shea joining the cast which includes Wahlberg, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy O. Yang, Michael Beach, Vincent Curatola, Alex Wolff, Themo Melikidze and James Colby.
The two new additions will play newlyweds Jessica Kensky (Brosnahan) and Patrick Downes (O’Shea), who were both seriously injured in the bombings.
The film has a script by Matt Charman based on the account of former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. Peter Berg is directing.
The movie will open on December 21, 2016.
Kristofer Hivju (“Game of Thrones”) will join Vin Diesal, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Michelle Rodriguez and Jason Statham in the upcoming eighth “Fast & Furious” movie, reports TheWrap.
F. Gary Gray is directing the film in which Hivju will play one of the main henchmen to the film’s villain (that role remains officially un-cast, though rumour has it Charlize Theron is eyeing the part).
“Fast 8” will open on April 17, 2017.
Jesse Plemons (“Fargo”) has joined writer/director Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles”, starring Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike.
“Hostiles” is set in 1892 and follows a legendary Army captain (Bale) as he escorts a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to tribal lands. They encounter a young widow (Pike) who joins them on the journey after her family is murdered.
Plemons will play a younger member of Bale’s cavalry unit.
