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Benedict Wong is set to play Doctor Strange’s sidekick in Marvel’s “Doctor Strange”.
Funnily enough, the characters name is Wong. According to THR, “he performs healing duties, assists in occult matters, is knowledgeable in martial arts and tends to Strange’s affairs. Among his functions is to look after Strange’s body when the hero is astral projecting himself into other dimensional planes.”
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the titular character in the fiml which will bow on November 4.
Deepika Padukone has nabbed the female lead opposite Vin Diesel in “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.”
She will play a huntress who helps Cage during a mission.
Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev, Jet Li and Samuel L. Jackson co-star in the sequel which will be directed by D.J. Caruso.
Theo James is in early talks to star in political thriller “Backstabbing For Beginners”, to play the role previously attached to Josh Hutcherson.
Ben Kingsley stars in the film which is inspired by Michael Soussan’s memoir “Backstabbing For Beginners: My Crash Course In International Diplomacy”.
Should the deal come off James would play “Michael, a young idealist who lands his dream job as a program coordinator for the UN’s Oil for Food program. He is thrown into an already fraught post-war Iraq where government agents and power-hungry countries are circling the country’s oil reserves like sharks. He seeks answers from the one person he thinks he can trust, Pasha (Kingsley), his boss, a seasoned diplomat. The more Michael learns, however, the more he suspects a conspiracy at the highest level. The only way out will be to expose it all — risking his own life, his mentor’s career, and the life of the Kurdish woman he loves” (via Deadline).
