Emily VanCamp set for Captain America Sequel
Emily VanCamp, star of hit TV show Revenge, looks set to land the female lead for Marvel Sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Beating out competition from a host of Hollywood’s younger leading ladies, VanCamp is likely playing the role of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter, who just happens to be the niece of Captain America’s former love interest Peggy Carter.
Hayley Atwell has already confirmed that she won;t be reprising her role as Peggy Carter for the new film, so an onscreen family reunion looks unlikely.
VanCamp joins cast hat does already include Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan and of course Captain America himself Chris Evans. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Captain America The Winter Soldier is due to arrive in cinemas 4 April 2014.
Zoey Deutch Lands Vampire Academy Lead
Beautiful Creatures star Zoey Deutch has landed the lead role in Vampire Academy Blood Sisters a new film based on Richelle Mead’s bestselling book series.
The original novel has been adapted into a screenplay by Daniel Waters with his brother Mark Waters set to direct. Vampire Academy is centered around 17 year old Rose Hathaway and her Vampire best friend Lissa, who meet at a special school for Vampires looking to suppress their more evil urges.
Lucy Fry is already confirmed in the role of Lissa while Danila Kozlovski will play another crucial role as Dimitri.
The ambition is for Blood Sisters to be the first chapter in a huge new franchise, with plans for at least six films. Speaking about the ambitious plans, producer Deepak Nayer explained:
“On a creative level we love the story and the creative team. We also love the potential to do a series of six strong movies based on this beloved series of novels”
Filming for Vampire Academy Blood Sisters will begin later this year in summer, but Zoey Deutch will be on screens this month as Emily Asher in the magical Beautiful Creatures.
Fast And Furious 6 Official Synopsis
The Fast And The Furious franchise is getting ready to rev its engine an race back onto the big screen for a sixth time. Now in addition to boasting an endless parade of supercharged cars and eye candy girls, the film also officially has a plot. Full details below:
Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Paul Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.
Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Luke Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez).
The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.
The film will see franchise regulars Jordana Brewster, Gina Carano and Tyrese Gibson return to star alongside Paul Walker’s handsome face and Vin Diesel’s angry baldness. Justin Lin who has directed the last three films in the long running petrol fueled franchise is again taking responsibility for ensuring that Fast And Furious 6 is up to speed in time for its release in May 2013.
Frank Langella joins Reykjavik cast
Frank Langella has reportedly signed on to star alongside Michael Douglas and Christoph Waltz in Mike Newell’s cold war drama Reykjavik. Set in 1986 the film tells the story of the dramatic peace summit between American President Ronald Regan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev .
Langella is no stranger to political drama, having put in an Oscar nominated turn as disgraced American president Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon alongside Michael Sheen. In Reyjavik, he’ll apparently be playing Regan’s most trusted senior advisor Paul Nitz, the US Secretary of the Navy.
Director Mike Newell told Red Carpet News about the project whilst honouring Helena Bonham Carter at the London Critics’ Circle Film Award in London, check out the video interview below:
Judd Apatow plans This Is 40 sequel
Writer and director Judd Apatow is just about to release his Knocked Up spin-off movie This Is 40 in UK cinemas, but he already has plans for a sequel.
This Is 40 focuses on the dysfunctional married life of Pete and Debbie, two supporting characters from Apatow’s hit pregnancy comedy Knocked Up played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Apatow’s real life daughters Maude and Iris play the bickering couples troublesome children and he’s apparently enthusiastic to explore their characters even further in another film. As he explained in a recent interview with Getty Images:
“I like that series Truffaut made where he visited the same character five different times in five different movies, and I think it’s fun to see people grow up. So I’m interested in it with Leslie and Paul, but even more so with Maude and Iris. I think it’s fun that we met Maude when she was eight years old, and she didn’t understand where babies came from, and then we see her five years later, and she’s just cursing and screaming and having teenager problems. And maybe in the next one she’s in college, so, you know.”
Check out This Is 40 interviews below with the all the film’s stars, Judd Apatow and his daughters: