Michael Cera and Emilia Jones are set to join Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian and Lee Pace in Edgar Wright’s new film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 novel “The Running Man” at Paramount Pictures. Filming begins in London early in the new year. The story is set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.
Cera will play a naïve rebel who tries to help the desperate man, Jones will play a privileged woman blind to the oppression. [Source: ] Scott Mescudi (“Trap,” “Trolls Band Together”), aka Kid Cudi, is set to join the cast of the Adam Sandler-led “Happy Gilmore” sequel at Netflix. Specifics of his role are unknown.
Sandler, Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald are returning and are joined by NFL star Travis Kelce, musician Bad Bunny, filmmaker Benny Safdie and wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman in the project. [Source: ] John Magaro will join Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim in Kelly Reichardt’s next film “The Mastermind,” making it his third straight film with Reichardt following “First Cow” and “Showing Up”. The film deals with an art heist during the Vietnam War, while Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, and Vinvent Savino produce.
[Source: ] Brandon Sklenar (“It Ends With Us”) has officially signed on to star opposite Sydney Sweeney in Paul Feig’s film adaptation of Freida McFadden’s “The Housemaid”. Amanda Seyfried co-stars in the film about a young woman.