It seems to be the day for casting news, with various people joining all sorts of projects:
First up is the annoucement that Mad Men star Jon Hamm in joinging the cast of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. The film described as 'Alice In Wonderland with machine guns', is about a girl (Emily Browning), who gets admitted to an insane asylum and then retreats into an alternate reality as a coping strategy. The movie is also set to star Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino and Abbie Cornish. Hamm's character is apparently known as High Roller, although no one's saying how he fits into the story. Sucker Punch is currently set for release in March 2011.
Saw II-IV director Darren Lynn Bousman has announced, via his Twitter feed, numerous new cast members for his upcoming horror movie, Mother's Day. Shawn Ashmore (X-Men), Briana Evigan (S Darko), Alexa Vega (Spy Kids) and Matt O’Leary (Sorority Row) have all signed on, as has Jaime King (Sin City), who'll be playing a character called Beth in the film. Mother's Day is a rejig of a 1980 Troma slasher, about a group of campers who suffer at the hands of two men who like to please their mother by committing acts of rape and murder. It starts filming next month with a release planned for the spring.
While she hasn't officially joined the cast, it's being reported that Playboy-model-turned-actress Dora Baird is up for a role in Kenneth Branagh's comic book adaptation, Thor. She's been Twittering that she auditioned for a role of Monday alongside Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, to play a character who's, "pretty but sturdy with muscle", but that she's contractually banned from saying anything more about the role. Whatever role she might play, she'd make for nice eye candy.