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“Boyhood” actor Ellar Coltrane has joined the cast of James Ponsoldt’s “The Circle”.
Coltrane will join Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Bill Paxton and Karen Gillan in the film based on Dave Eggers’ novel about a young woman (Watson) who is hired by an Internet monopoly called the Circle. The company links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.
Coltrane will play Watson’s ex-boyfriend, “who tries to go off the grid and under the radar of the Circle’s technology” (via THR).
Wallace Langham will play Arthur Schlesinger in Rob Reiner’s drama “LBJ”, reports Variety.
Schlesinger was special assistant to President John F. Kennedy and adversary to Lyndon B. Johnson.
Woody Harrelson stars as Lyndon B. Johnson opposite Jeffrey Donovan as John F. Kennedy, Kim Allen as Jackie Kennedy, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson, Michael Stahl-David as Bobby Kennedy, Richard Jenkins as Richard Russell and Bill Pullman as Ralph Yarborough.
Nat Wolff (“Paper Towns”) is in final negotiations to star in Adam Wingard’s “Death Note”.
Based on the Japanese manga series, the film will see Wolff play a student who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone simply by writing the victim’s name.
Jeremy Slater penned the script.
Olivia Holt will star in indie teen comedy “The Standoff”.
Holt will play Amy whoenters a contest to win a luxury vehicle. The teens stand around the vehicle for three sleepless days, while keeping a hand firmly on the car without lifting it except for a few breaks, trying to be the last one standing and win.
Ilyssa Goodman is directing from a script by Leigh Dunlap.
