So we can cover as many films as possible, we thought we’d give you these quick updates of some of the smaller film announcements…
It’s been announced that Scott Glenn has joined the ever growing cast of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (he was previously rumoured, but it’s now official), which is about a girl committed to a mental asylum with plans to have her lobotomized, who escapes into an alternate reality (as in The Wizard Of Oz, people from her real life get recast in her fantasy world). Glenn will be playing a mentor/guide for the lead character, Baby Doll. He’ll be joining Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, Vanessa Hudgen, Jena Malone, Abbie Cornish and Jon Hamm in the movie, which is due out in early 2011. (Source: Variety)
Madchen Amick, star of Twin Peaks and Californication, has signed up to appear in the post-apocalytic vampire movie, Priest, alongside Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q and Karl Urban. The film is about a future where bloodsuckers have taken over, and warrior priests, such as Bettany and Maggie Q, fight them. They team up with a sheriff in order to try and track down Bettany’s kidnapped niece. Amick will play Shannon, the mother of the niece. (Source: Variety)
Rebecca Hall (Dorian Gray, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) is set to star in Richard Linklater’s upcoming comedy, Liars A-E. The British export is set to play Bacall Loomis, who is dumped by her fiance the night before Barack Obama’s was elected President. She decides to go on a road trip to the presidential inauguration ceremony with Kat Dennings (Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist), stopping off along the way to pick up items she left with various exes. Production on Liars A-E is due to start soon. (Source: THR)
Actor Boris Kodjoe has let is be known that he’s been cast in Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth instalment in the videogame adaptation franchise. Kodjoe has previously been seen in Starship Troopers 3 and the soon-to-be released, Surrogates. Aflterlife, set to be directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starts filming soon. (Source: Twitter)