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Briefs : Cry Macho, The Flash, Hawkeye spin-off, new projects for Wahlberg & The Hoff

Clint Eastwood’s latest, “Cry Macho” will open in theaters and be available on HBO Max on October 22, 2021.

 

David Hasselhoff will star as himself in a new German series called “Ze Net”.  The plot of the dark comedy sees the Hoff cast in a theater play in Germany only to be caught up in an international conspiracy of former Cold War assassins. [More…]

 

Vin Diesel’s son Vincent Sinclair will play a younger version of his father’s “Fast and Furious” character in the upcoming “F9: The Fast Saga”. [More…]

 

Forest Whitaker will star opposite Tom Hardy in “Havoc,” a new Gareth Evans-directed crime drama for Netflix. “After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.” [More…]

 

Mark Wahlberg will star in the faith based drama “Stu” for director Rosalind Ross.Penned by Ross, the film’s plot is being kept under wraps. [More…]

 

An NC-17 version of the film doesn’t exist but “Mrs Doubtfire” director Chris Columbus says an R rated version does. [More…]

 

A spin-off of “Hawkeye”, centering on ‘Echo’, the half-deaf native American character that actress Alaqua Cox plays in the upcoming Marvel series, is in the works at Disney+. [More…]

 

Suggesting he’s not the lock for the film we hoped we was, Michael Keaton says he’s still to to read the latest draft of “The Flash”, and is too busy to think about the project at the moment. “I mean, you know, to tell you the truth, somewhere on my iPad is an iteration of the whole Flash thing that I haven’t had time yet,” the actor, who would reprise his role as Batman in the film, tells Deadline. “I called them and said, I have to be honest with you. I can’t look at anything right now. I’m so deep into this thing I’m doing. Also, I’m prepping a thing I’m producing and getting ready to do down the road in the fall that I’ll be in, and I feel responsible to that. So, yeah, there is that. I’m not being cute or coy. If I talked about it, I’ll be just bullshitting you. I don’t really know. I have to look at the last draft…”

Keaton also says he’s a little concerned about the pandemic, and whether he wants to risk traveling to the UK at this time.

“I keep my eye more on the Covid situation in the UK than anything. That will determine everything, and so that’s why I’m living outside the city here on 17 acres, staying away from everybody, because the Covid thing has got me really concerned. So, that’s my first thing about all projects. I look at it and go, is this thing going to kill me, literally? And you know, if it doesn’t, then we talk.”

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