MUMBAI: The Carrie Diaries star AnnaSophia Robb has been cast opposite Minnie Driver and Frank Grillo in Conspiracy on Jekyll Island, playing the duo’s cancer-stricken daughter.
The political thriller is being helmed by Aram Rappaport from a script he developed with Hilary Shor (Children Of Men, The Paperboy). John Leguizamo, Maggie Q, Dianna Agron and Ed Westwick also star; filming is underway in Chicago.
MUMBAI: Jamie Dornan is all set to play Christian Grey in the film adaptation of the superhit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey that is expected to go on floor in November.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features’ adaptation of the book was to have Charlie Hunnam as the lead earlier, who backed out of the project more than a week ago. Negotiations with Dornan are in progress.
Dornan is the star of the UK series The Fall and is also known for playing The Huntsman in ABC’s Once Upon A Time. Dakota Johnson will be the female lead for the movie. A release date of August 1, 2014 has been set. If the first movie does well, then Dornan could stay on for the rest of the movies in the series as well.
Juno Temple and Frank Grillo were also offered roles but they too turned it down. Dornan has been in the news earlier for dating Kiera Knightley for a while.
MUMBAI: The star of Disney Channel’s about-to-end Shake It Up continues her march into more mature material. Having joined the indie Home Invasion earlier this year, Bella Thorne has now signed on along with Kyra Sedgwick as the leads in Manis Film’s thriller Big Sky.
The English language debut by Jorge Michel Grau, who helmed the original Spanish language chiller We Are What We Are, features Thorne as Hazel and the former The Closer star as her protective mother Dee. On their way to a desert facility to help the teen deal with her paralysing agoraphobia, the two find themselves attacked by gunmen and Hazel has to fight her own demons for the duo to survive.
Frank Grillo, who starred in End of Watch, Zero Dark Thirty and will be in upcoming CaptainAmerica: The Winter Soldier plays the male lead in the film along with Les Miserables’ Aaron Tveit. Randy Manis, Matthew Salloway and Christina Papagjika are producing. Christine Vachon is executive producing for Killer Films with Jeffrey V. Mandel of TBD Syndicate and AKA pictures’ Clayton Young. Ricky Tollman is co-producing.
AKA pictures – a subsidiary of Benaroya Pictures – is co-financing Big Sky. Having finished Warner Bros’ The Familymoon with Adam Sandler and Drew Berrymore earlier this summer, Thorne is next set for Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
With The Closer having wrapped on TNT last year, Sedgwick is scheduled to appear on the big screen in the upcoming Kill Your Darlings, Reach Me and Gren Wells’ The Road Within.