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Rosario Dawson has signed on to play Batgirl (aka Barbara Gordon) in Warner Bros’ “Lego Batman” (via THR).
Dawson joins Will Arnett as Batman and Michael Cera as Robin. Zach Galifianakis is also in talks to play the Joker.
Chris McKay is directing the animated feature from a script by author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith.
Bradley Cooper is in negotiations to voice the titular character in DreamWorks and Walden Media’s “A Dog’s Purpose”.
Britt Robertson and Dennis Quaid lead the cast of the project which adapts W. Bruce Cameron’s book about “a devoted dog that is reincarnated several times and — even as he helps his many owners — always has the aim of being reunited with his original owner and best friend” (via THR).
Production is currently underway in Winnipeg, Canada, with Lasse Hallstrom directing.
James McAvoy will join Charlize Theron in Focus Features’ spy thriller “The Coldest City”.
In the film “an undercover MI6 officer turns up dead on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a female super spy by the name of Lorraine Broughton (Theron) must find the list he was smuggling into the West – a log containing the names of every espionage agent working undercover in Berlin. Broughton delves into an underground world of counter-intelligence, defections gone awry and secret assassinations to recover the list, risking her own life to save the lives of the British agents. But, in this world of deceit and double-crossing, one never knows who is working for whom or can really be trusted” (via Variety).
David Leitch is directing from Kurt Johnstad’s screenplay.
Angel Parker will appear in nine out of ten episodes of FX’s “American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson”.
Parker will play attorney Shawn Chapman, who worked on Simpson’s legal “Dream Team”, in the Ryan Murphy series which stars “Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson, John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark, and Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, who hired Chapman to work on Simpson’s defense in the mid-’90s criminal trial” (via Variety).
Melissa Leo (“The Fighter”), Sebastian Stan (“The Martian”) and Clark Duke (“The Office”) have joined the cast of Showtime’s ensemble dark comedy pilot “I’m Dying Up Here”.
They join Ari Graynor, Andrew Santino, RJ Cyler, Erik Griffin and Stephen Guarino in the pilot which is set during L.A.’s celebrated, infamous stand-up comedy scene of the 1970s.
Leo will play Goldie, a brassy comedy club owner who rules over her business with an iron fist and nurtures her comedians with tough love.
Stan will play Clay, a funny, charming comedian on the rise, who declares irrelevancy as his biggest fear. He is idolized by his ex and fellow comedian Cassie (Graynor).
Duke will play Larry, a ballsy young comedian from Boston who moves to L.A. with the hopes of making it big.
Should the show go to series, Leo and Duke would appear as series regulars, Stan would guest star.
The pilot is based on William Knoedelseder’s non-fiction book. Jonathan Levine will direct from Dave Flebotte.
