While there’s been no verification of this, Vulture is reporting that Friday night Light stay Kyle Chandler and young Elle Fanning are the first two people cast in JJ Abrams’ Super 8, the mysterious movie he’s directing, which is said to hark back to classic 70s/80s Spielberg (who is a producer on the flick).
Everything about the movie is secret, so whether these two will appear in the movie isn’t 100% known, and if they do, it would be a small surprise, as previous info had suggested a cast of unknowns, as with Cloverfield, especially with a casting call going out asking for just that.
All we know so far about the film is that THR has said it’s about the possibility that a group of kids in 1979 are playing around making movies with their Super 8 cameras and accidentally capture something sinister, on film. And we also had the intriguing teaser trailer. However that gives us no clue about who Chandler or Fanning might play, so I guess we’ll have to wait to find out.