Chris Evans And Walton Goggins Join Action Ensembles, Adam Devine And Liam Hemsworth Romance Rebel Wilson
In today’s edition of “casting news pieces that aren’t quite big enough to get their own story but are certainly more interesting when lumped together”:
Now, let’s go into detail.
Chris Evans Heads to the Red Sea Diving Resort
Based on the real-life rescue mission of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel in the early ’80s, Chris Evans will star as Mossad agent Ari Kidron inRed Sea Diving Resort. Here’s the synopsis of theGideon Rafffilm fromComingSoon.net:
The story begins in the late ’70s, when the spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak-and-dagger activities when it was ordered to help in the transfer of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who were stuck in refugee camps in Sudan and deliver them to the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan and deployed a handful of operatives (including a team of Ethiopians on the ground) to launch and oversee the exodus to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. The Mossad’s Red Sea Diving Resort operated for five years and saved thousands of refugees and brought them to Israel.
Evans will lead a confirmed cast ofHaley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michael K. Williams, Michiel Huisman, Alex HassellandMark Ivanir,as well as Academy Award nomineeGreg Kinnearand Oscar winnerSir Ben Kingsley.
Adam Devine and Liam Hemsworth Are in a Love Triangle With Rebel Wilson in Isn’t It Romantic
Rebel Wilsonwill be living every romantic comedy sidekick’s dream inIsn’t It Romantic, a comedy in which a cynical woman (Wilson) discovers that herlife has become a rom-com. Wilson goes from sidekick to romantic lead, getting caught in a love triangle betweenAdam DevineandLiam Hemsworth. Devine, who co-starred with Wilson inPitch Perfect, will play a character who is stuck in the friend zone while Hemsworth the hunky object of Wilson’s affections.
Directed byTodd Strauss-Schulson,Isn’t It Romanticwas initially written by Erin Cardillo, with revisions by Dana Fox, Katie Silberman, Paula Pell, Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly. Todd Garner, Grant Scharbo, Gina Matthews and Jeremy Stein are producing the comedy, which is set to start production in June.
Walton Goggins Enters Maze Runner: The Death Cure
The third installment ofMaze Runneris getting off the ground with Walton Goggins joining the cast.Maze Runner: The Death Curewas delayed due to star Dylan O’Brien being injured on set, but production has resumed in South Africa.
Based on the third novel in James Dashner’s trilogy,Maze Runner: The Death Curefollows O’Brien’s Thomas as he embarks on a mission to find a cure to a deadly disease knows as the “Flare.” Along the way, he meets Goggins' character Lawrence, “an unusual and dangerous character who is part-revolutionary, part-anarchist, and a voice for the voiceless people,” according toDeadline.
Maze Runner: The Death Cureis directed by Wes Ball with T.S. Nowlin penning the script. The film is set to hit theaters and finish theMaze Runnerseries onFebruary 9, 2018.
