Chris Pine is part of the reason that the 2009 reboot of Star Trek (and it’s 2013 sequel: Into Darkness) was such a success. His charismatic revival of Captain Kirk brought the two films up a significant notch. He’s likely to bring that charisma into Jack Ryan reboot Shadow Recruit (December 31st, not 26th, now) and now Horrible Bosses 2. He’ll be the villainous boss for the characters of Charlie Day (Pacific Rim), Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers) who plot on murdering those who make their life hell, IE Colin Farrel (who they offed in the last film), Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey. He’s been confirmed to be portraying half a father-son duo who steel the lads’ idea for a new invention in the plot of director Sean Anders’ (That’s My Boy).
We move on to some new casting news on the front of Colin Trevorrow’s upcoming science fiction adventure sequel. Jurassic World, the fourth instalment of the Spielberg originating Jurassic Park series snapped up Bryce Dallas Howard (Spider-Man 3, The Help) fairly recently and a second cast member’s been brought in. The name Ty Simpkins may not immediately leap out to you as one of a Hollywood star but horror fans will know him as the possessed child from the Insidious films and those who watched Shane Black’s comic-book action Iron Man 3 will know him as Harley Keener, the young hero who helps Stark with his investigation into Extremis. He also had roles in Russell Crowe thriller The Next Three Days and Sam Mendes drama Revolutionary Road.
There’s also been some interesting news on the Marvel front. We’re approaching the finishing line of the pre-production of Ant-Man. Edgar Wright’s superhero epic is under two years from being released in cinemas and yet we don’t know any of the stars. Variety reported that favourites for the lead role of Hank Pym were Joseph Gordon Levitt (Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, 50/50) and Paul Rudd (Role Models, Knocked Up, This is 40, The 40 Year Old Virgin). I wouldn’t be particularly happy with either of these two (they’re good at what they do but I don’t see either as a potential superhero lead). I’m still sticking to Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle) or Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Star Wars, The Great Gatsby).
Also, Deadline has told us that Marvel are to commission another 4 series on top of Agents of SHIELD. We’ve been informed about an ambitious 60 episode plan to follow in the next couple of years. I think the truth behind this is that TV need some big Hollywood action exclusive to it’s screens to lure people off cable hits (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones) and Netflix (who’ve House of Cards, Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black. I’m predicting that Louis D’Esposito and Hailee Attwell could be developing the story of Agent Carter.
Jurassic World – June 12th 2015
Horrible Bosses 2 – November 26th 2014
Ant-Man – July 31st 2015
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