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Jeremy Renner will star as boxer Rocky Marciano in “Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story”, a biopic about the boxer’s life from childhood to his 1969 death in a plane crash.
Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore wrote the script. A director is not yet attached.
Deadline first reported the news.
Sean Penn will play Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, in HBO and Lionsgate’s miniseries adaptation of the biography “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House”.
Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard will write the script with production set to kick off next year.
Laurence Fishburne will have a small role opposite his “Matrix” co-star Keanu Reeves in “John Wick 2”.
Fishburne is shooting a cameo for the film, which is being directed by Chad Stahelski.
Dylan O’Brien has become attached to star in Twentieth Century Fox’s action comedy “Little White Corvette”.
Iain Morris is in talks to helm from Michael Diliberti’s script about “a dysfunctional pair of siblings, a nerdy brother (O’Brien) and a wild older sister, who find a stash of cocaine in their late father’s 1977 Corvette Stingray. They hope to make their problems disappear by scoring a million dollar deal in Miami but their road trip goes south when they are pursued by not only the police but a mysterious man in a Dodge Demon” (via THR).
Matt L. Jones, Eleanore Pienta and Will Rogers have joined Jonny Mars and Sam Eidson in the cast of indie comedy “A Bad Idea Gone Wrong”. Variety has learned exclusively.
Jason Headley is directing from his own script about “two would-be thieves — played by Jones and Rogers — accidentally triggering the alarm system and having to break out of a house they just broke into. When they discover an unexpected house sitter (portrayed by Pienta), they suddenly have to deal with a hostage situation and double-crosses (via Variety).
