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Ryan Gosling is certainly back from the acting break he decided to go on last year, as he’s busy filling his slate. Just in the last few days it’s been revealed he’s likely to star in Guillermo Del Toro’s Haunted Mansion and the musical La La Land.

Now he may have another and it’s a biggie, as Variety reports that he’s in talks to star alongside Harrison Ford in the planned sequel to Blade Runner.

With the people behind the movie keeping details close to their chest, there’s no info on who Gosling will play. Indeed at this stage the only things we know are that it will be set some time after Blade Runner and Ford will be back as Rick Deckard.

Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve will help the film, with Ridley Scott still on board to produce and consult on the film. It’s still no clear when it will shoot.

After a few flops and disappointments it looked like Steve Carell’s movie career was on the ropes, but thanks to Foxcatcher and the Oscar nomination he got for it, he’s back on top, and now TheWrap reports he’s close to a deal to star in Marwencol for director Robert Zemeckis.

When the movie was first announced Leo DiCaprio was being sought to star, but now they’re going in a slightly different direction with Carell taking on the lead role.

The movie will be based on the life of Mark Hogancamp, who became the subject of a documentary by Jeff Malmberg’s in 2010 on which Zemeckis’ film will be based. The doc followed Hogancamp’s long road to recovery after he was severely beaten by five teenagers, causing him to slip into a coma for nine days. When he came out around, he had no memory of his life or friends and family.

To help his recovery, he began constructing a one-sixth scale model of a World War II-era Belgian village in his backyard, called Marwencol, with figures that resembled his friends, family members and even his attackers, which allowed him both to heal his memory and escape into his own fantasy scenarios.

A couple of days ago Michelle McLaren backed out of directing Wonder Woman and it looked like once more the quest to have a major superhero movie directed by a woman would fail. However Warner/DC have moved quickly to replace her with Monster helmer Patty Jenkins, according to THR.

It’s not Jenkins first involvement with superheroes as at one point she was set to direct Thor: The Dark World, but left after a disagreement over the direction of the movie. However now it looks like she may enter the comic book realm after all.

Gal Gadot will play Wonder Woman, and we’ll first get to see her in next year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The standalone Wonder Woman movie will arrive June 23rd, 2017 and is expected to shoot later this year (hence why Warner wanted to replace McLaren so quickly).

Jenkins may end up not being the only female director in the superhero universe, as rumours suggest Angelina Jolie is being considered for Marvel’s Captain Marvel.

With the UK going to the polls for a General Election on May 7th, Pathe Pictures has decided it’s the perfect time to release a teaser for the movie Suffragette. It’s been put out in support of the #votingmatters campaign, which highlights things such as the fact that more than 9 million women failed to vote in the 2010 election, and so there is a major campaign to get women to register to vote before the deadline on 20 April.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. The film is directed by Sarah Gavron, who reteams with her Brick Lane screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady), and is produced by Faye Ward and Alison Owen (Saving Mr Banks).

‘SUFFRAGETTE is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. The character of Maud, played by Carey Mulligan, is one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is both heart-breaking and inspirational.’

The movie hits British cinemas on October 30th.