G.I. Joe: Retaliation stunner Elodie Yung is set to star in Summit Entertainment’s Gods of Egypt, an epic fantasy adventure from Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow), starring Gerard Butler (300), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”), Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent) and Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean).
Gods of Egypt follows Bek, a young Egyptian thief (Thwaites) on a mission to kill the mad god Set (Butler) when Horus (Coster-Waldau), son of murdered underworld deity Osiris, fails to avenge his father’s death. Yung will play Hathor, goddess of femininity, joy, and motherhood.
Yung is best known for playing sexy ninja Jinx in Paramount Pictures’ G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Lisbeth Salander’s lesbian lover, Miriam Wu, in David Fincher’s American adaptation of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
`Twentieth Century Fox has announced the stars of its upcoming reboot of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) as “Human Torch” Johnny Storm, Jamie Bell (King Kong) as “The Thing” Ben Grimm, Miles Teller (Divergent) as “Mr. Fantastic” Richard Reid, and Kate Mara (Transcendence) as “Invisible Woman” Sue Storm.
Josh Trank (Chronicle) is attached to direct The Fantastic Four from a script by Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past). Twentieth Century Fox will open the film in theaters on June 19, 2015.
The studio’s original Fantastic Four adaptation hit theaters in 2005 and went on to earn more than $330 million. The film starred Chris Evans (Captain America), Michael Chiklis (“The Shield”), Ioan Gruffodd (“Ringer”) and Jessica Alba (Sin City).
By Eddie Muertos on February 17th, 2014 at 11:08 pm
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Jessica Alba (Sin City) is set to join Thomas Jane (The Punisher) in Blumhouse Productions’ The Veil. THR reports that the Phil Joanou-directed frightener starts production in April, and will be distributed by Universal Pictures.
Written by Robert Ben Garant, the scribe behind Blumhouse’s yet-to-be released white-knuckle horror show Jessabelle, The Veil follows the lone survivor of a believed mass cult suicide as she takes a documentary filmmaker (Alba) and her crew to the compound where it all went down.
Alba is coming off the Robert Rodriguez sequel Machete Kills and will be seen in Rodriguez’s Sin City sequel A Dame to Kill For and in The Wright Girls, Japanese director Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s remake of his own bad roommate thriller 2LDK.
Your first kiss. Your first job promotion. Your first born. None of these things will be as memorable as watching Zombeavers. Written and directed by “The Man Show” scribe Jordan Rubin, the outrageous creature-feature finds a bevy of bikini-clad babes terrorized by undead beavers while on holiday.
The synopsis reads:
Three college girls go on a care-free vacation of drinking games, topless sunbathing, and sexual exploration. Their frolicking fun comes to an abrupt end when toxic zombie beavers try to EAT THEM!
Zombeavers stars up-and-coming stunners Cortney Palm (Silent Night), Rachel Melvin (“Days of Our Lives”), and Lexi Atkins (pictured above).
Eva Longoria (“Desperate Housewives”) is the latest stunner to join Blumhouse Productions’ new micro-budgeted thriller Visions. Directed by Kevin Greutert (SAW 6) and written by Lucas Sussman (Below), the film is toplined by Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) and costars Gillian Jacobs (“Community”).
Fisher plays a pregnant woman who starts to have disturbing visions while with her husband at his vineyard home. Longoria is her big city friend, a fashionable and witty woman who disapproves of her life decisions. Universal Pictures is distributing.
Longoria is best known for being ridiculously hot and for playing sassy ex-model Gabrielle Solis on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.” Horror creds include the Stephen Kay’s supernatural thriller The Dead Will Tell and the absolutely terrifying ghost comedy Over Her Dead Body.
Mena Suvari, star of all things American (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”), and Brian Austin Green, co-proprietor of Megan Fox’s vagina, star in actor-turned-director Travis Oates’ The Last Stop.
Written by Oates, the story finds 10 vacationing travelers arriving at a mountain resort only to find it completely abandoned. Without enough gas to get back home, they stay and investigate the strange goings-on at the lodge.
Suvari made her feature film debut in Paramount Pictures Kiss the Girls. Her creds includeThe Rage: Carrie 2, Millennium Films remake of Day of the Dead, and Stuart Gordon’sStuck, a thriller based-on-a-true-story of a woman who waited for her hit-and-run victim to die in her garage while stuck in her windshield.
Olivia Wilde is one hot mama in Frozen River cinematographer Reed Morano’s directorial debut Meadowland, a psychological thriller about a mother who strikes up a relationship with a neglected boy after her son goes missing. According to Deadline, that bond takes an “unexpected turn.”
No word if the “unexpected turn” involves any koo koo ka choo inappropriateness between Wilde and the kid, but that would be hot-as-balls creatively bold. The film, written by some dude named Chris Rossi, shoots in New York in July.
Wilde, best known for her performance in Tron: Legacy and her long-running role as Thirteen on Fox’s medical drama “House,” is coming off Spike Jones’ A.I. sci-fi romance Her. Previous creds include Andrew Niccol’s In Time and Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens.
Vivica A. Fox is the latest to dive into Sharknado: The Second One, a sequel to Syfy’s social media fueled juggernaut about a shark-hurling twister. She joins returning leads Ian Ziering and Tara Reid, and newcomers Andy Dick, Kelly Osbourne, ex-Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath, and Judd Hirsch as a Taxi driver!
Sharknado 2: The Second One finds Reid and Ziering out to save New York from a new and bigger sharknado. Fox will play Skye, a high school friend of Ziering’s character. Directed by Anthony Ferrante and written by Thunder Levin, the creative masterminds behind Sharknado, the sequel is slated for release in July.
Not a lot of horror in Fox’s career, but she did star in Roland Emmerich’s epic alien invasion thriller Independence Day as a stripper who rescues the First Lady and keeps hero Will Smith motivated enough to kick the tires and light the fires. The role earned her a spot on Clatto’s list of The Top Ten Babes of Fourth of July Horror.
Universal released a trailer for Blumhouse Productions’ The Purge: Anarchy, a sequel to the studio’s surprise hit The Purge. Once again written and directed by James Demonaco, the film stars Frank Grillo (The Grey), Carmen Ejogo (Alex Cross), Michael K. Williams (”Boardwalk Empire”), and Kiele Sanchez (“LOST”).
The Purge is a government sanctioned 12-hour night during which all criminal activity is permissible by law. The original starred Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey as parents put in peril when their young son shelters a victim in their home. This time out, the action picks up outside where all hell’s breaking loose. The Purge: Anarchy opens June 20.
“Mad Men” star January Jones is set to topline The Shuddering, a supernatural thriller from director George Ratliff (Joshua) and screenwriter David Coggeshall (The Haunting in Connecticut: Ghosts of Georgia). Jones plays a woman investigating the origins of the frightening visions that haunt her.
According to THR, production on The Shuddering begins in the summer.
Jones, best known for playing Betty Draper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” is coming off Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, in which she portrayed sexy mutant Emma Frost. She’s also starred in the Liam Neeson psychological thriller Unknown.