In our round-up of movie casting today we see big names like John Goodman, Natalie Portman, and Tom Felton.
Lots of dramas today for these actors including Tom Felton playing a vengeful ghost, John Goodman as a baseball scout, and Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington as a wizards apprentice. Thankfully we have Jason Jones from The Daily Show to give us a little bit of comedy.
Variety reports that Game of Thrones star Kit Harington will be joining the cast of The Seventh Son. He would join the cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander. The film is an adaptation of Joseph Delaney's YA series about a teen that learns wizardy from "a forbidding spook." Harington would play the former apprentice of Bridges' character. The project is being directed by Sergey Bodrov with a script from Matt Greenberg.
According to Deadline, Tom Felton is set to star with Elizabeth Olsen and Glenn Close in Therese Raquin. Set to be written and directed by theater director Charlie Stratton, Felton would play the role of Therese's (Olsen) husband who she plots to kill with her lover Laurent. After they kill him, his ghost returns to haunt them and destroy their love
John Goodman will be playing baseball soon. According to Variety the actor is set to join Justin Timberlake and Clint Eastwood in Robert Lorenz's Trouble With the Curve. Eastwood stars as an aging baseball scout with vision problems. Goodman will play a longtime friend of Eastwood's character who still believes in him and his ability to spot the talented players. Eastwood and Lorenz will produce the project which was written by Randy Brown.
Deadline reports that Natalie Portman has signed on to back-to-back Terrence Malick films Knight of the Cups and Lawless. The films will be her first since her win for Best Actress for Black Swan and then taking maternity leave. For Knight of the Cups she joins Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Isabel Lucas in the cast. Right after that she will move on to star with Ryan Gosling, Bale, Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett in Lawless. Details about both films are being kept very secret right now.
And we end with some comedy news today as Deadline says that Jason Jones will be joining the cast of heist comedy The Black Marks as an Interpol agent. Directed by Jonathan Sobol, the movie is about a bad motorcycle daredevil/ semi-reformed art thief who decides to go on one more job. The cast includes Kurt Russell, as the lead Crunch Calhoun, along with Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel (Goon), Terence Stamp (The Adjustment Bureau), Chris Diamantopoulos (‘Moe’ in the upcoming Three Stooges), Katheryn Winnick (Love and Other Drugs) and Kenneth Welsh (Grey Gardens).
