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Chris Evans has exited one project, but signed for another.
The “Captain America” star will headline past-lives drama “infinite” for director Antoine Fuqua (“The Equalizer”) and Paramount Pictures.
The original novel introduces readers to the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives and a troubled young man who becomes haunted by memories of two past lives after joining their ranks.
Meantime, Evans has dropped out of the Antonio Campos-directed Netflix film “The Devil All The Time”. Instead, the actor’s “Captain America” and “Avengers” co-star Sebastian Stan has stepped in.
Randall Poster is producing with Nine Stories’ Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker, and Max Born. Stan will costar alongside Tom Holland, Mia Wasakowska, Robert Pattinson, and Bill Skarsgard.
“The Devil All The Time” is an adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s 2011 mid-western gothic novel that Antonio and Paulo Campos co-scripted. In the forgotten backwoods of a place called Knockemstiff, Ohio, a storm of faith, violence and redemption brews. Out of desperation to save his dying wife, Willard Russell turns to prayer which succumbs to sacrifice. This sets our protagonist Arvin, Willard’s son, on his path from bullied kid to a man who knows when to take action. He interacts with a nefarious cast of characters: a serial killer couple, a faith-testing preacher, and a corrupt local sheriff in a story that is told across two decades.
