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Jared Leto will star in Waypoint Entertainment and Linson Entertainment’s “The Outsider”, an action-thriller from director Martin Zandvliet.
Andrew Baldwin penned the script which is set in post-WWII Japan. The story centres on an imprisoned American soldier (Leto) who is released with the help of his Yakuza cellmate. Now free, he sets out to earn their respect and repay his debt while navigating the dangerous criminal underworld.
Joel McHale is in final negotiations to play Chevy Chase in “A Futile and Stupid Gesture”, Netflix’s biopic about “National Lampoon” co-founder Douglas Kenney.
From director David Wain, the project has Will Forte on board to star as Kenney with Domnhall Gleeson as fellow co-founder Henry Beard.
Kenney was the editor of the Harvard Lampoon when he met Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman, which, soon after graduation, resulted in the creation of National Lampoon, the humor magazine that became a major force and brand in 1970s comedy. Kenney ended up going Hollywood and succumbed to drug and alcohol issues before falling off a cliff in Hawaii under mysterious circumstances.
Kenney co-wrote Caddyshack, the 1980 comedy that was an early Chase hit, and the two were close friends. Chase was with his troubled pal in Hawaii before his death but returned to Los Angeles for work. He was set to fly back when he received word that Kenney was missing. (via THR)
Miranda Richardson and Clancy Brown will join Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in “Stronger”, Lionsgate’s Boston Marathon bombing movie.
David Gordon Green is directing this project about Jeff Bauman, a survivor who lost both his legs in the attack.
Gyllenhaal plays Bauman and Maslany plays his girlfriend, whom Bauman was waiting for at the finish line of the race when the bombs went off.
Richardson and Brown will play Bauman’s parents.
John Pollono wrote the script based on Bauman’s memoir, co-written by Bret Witter.
To the other Boston Marathon Bombing project in Hollywood right now; Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze will play Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in director Peter Berg’s film “Patriots Day”, reports TheWrap.
The Tsarnaev’s are the brothers responsible for 2013 bombing.
Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy O. Yang, Michael Beach, Vincent Curatola and James Colby are also in the film which has a script by Matt Charman based on the account of former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
The movie will open on December 21, 2016.
