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A couple of years after Disney originally wanted it to shoot, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is heading out next February to get the cameras rolling. Now it’s time to fill out the cast, and as with the earlier movies they want a hot young star to appear alongside Johnny Depp.

Deadline reports that a shortlist for the role has now been drawn up, with Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), George Mackay (Pride). Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent), Mitchell Hope (Descendants), Ansel Elgort (The Fault In Our Stars) and Sam Keeley (In The Heart Of The Sea) in the running to play a character called Henry.

There’s no news on exactly how Henry plays into the plot, although whoever gets the role will star alongside Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, with Javier Bardem also recently going into talks to play the villain. There’s also likely to be a lot of young actresses interested in a major female role, Barbosa’s daughter Carina Smyth.

The movie is due out July 7th, 2017.

Newsroom and Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel has landed a new movie role, as THR reports he’s set to star alongside Nicole Kidman in a film called Lion.

The Weinstein Company will be look for international buyers for the movie at the American Film Market, which is based on Saroo Brierley’s memoir, A Long Way Home. Patel will play a street kid from Calcutta who is taken in and adopted by a couple in Australia. Kidman is set to play the mother, and while it was initially rumoured Hugh Jackman would be the dad, his reps have since said he’s not involved.

Garth Davis is set to direct, with Luke Davies writing the script.

After years in development hell, endless changes in cast and director, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is finally shooting. The film adapts Seth Grahame Smith’s book which took the text of Jane Austen’s classic novel and added in a zombie apocalypse.

It’s for that reason that in the first pic above, which arrived via EW, the Bennet sisters need to ensure they’ve got plenty of blades.

The pic shows Lydia (Ellie Bamber), Jane (Bella Heathcote), Elizabeth (Lily James), Mary (Millie Brady), and Kitty (Suki Waterhouse). They star alongside the likes of Sam Riley as Darcy, Jack Huston as Wickham, Douglas Booth as Bingley, and Matt Smith as Mr. Collins.

Burr Steers is directing with a 2015 release planned.

The events in the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghai, Libya on September 11th, 2012 made waves across the world. At some point it was bound to be turned into a film and now it appears Michael Bay will be the man to do it, as he’s in talks to direct 13 Hours for Paramount, according to Variety.

The movie is based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s book, which centres on six members of a security team. After the facility came under attack from militants angered about the recently release of a trailer for an Islam-bashing film called ‘Innocence Of Muslims’ and the anniversary of 9/11.

The team fought to defend the lives of the Americans in the compound, although the attack claimed the life of U.S. Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens and a foreign service worker, while two contract workers died in a second attack at a nearby CIA facility.

Chuck Hogan (The Town, The Strain) is writing the screenplay for the $30-$40 million movie. It’s certainly something a little different from Bay, who’s better known for explosive blockbuster such as the Transformers movies.