Bear Season
Luke Evans, Jacob Tremblay and Olga Kurylenko will play the three leads in Simon Aboud’s coming-of-age immigrant drama feature “Bear Season”. The project is adapted by Donald Martin (“Milton’s Secret”) from Bernie Hafeli’s novel.
Tremblay plays an adolescent boy living in post-WWII Detroit with his Polish immigrant mother (Kurylenko) and his PTSD-suffering former soldier uncle (Evans). The boy’s unwavering faith in the wild stories of his uncle sparks a road trip to uncover the truth of his father’s story. [Source: Variety]
Splendid Solution
Jeremy Strong (“Succession,” “The Gentlemen”) will play Jonas Salk, the famed virologist and researcher that developed the polio vaccine, in the Bron and 21 Laps-produced biopic “Splendid Solution” based on Jeffrey Kluger’s best-selling novel.
The story follows Salk as he begins his polio research and his eventual discovery of a vaccine that he purposefully did not patent and was then used for decades to innoculate against the virus. Gillian Weeks will pen the screenplay while Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce. [Source: THR]
All American: Homecoming
Peyton Alex Smith, Kelly Jenrette, Cory Hardrict, Sylvester Powell, Netta Walker and Camille Hyde will join Geffri Maya in The CW’s “All American” spin-off pilot “All American: Homecoming”.
Executive produced and written by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, the story follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago as they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also navigating the highs and lows of unsupervised early adulthood. [Source: Variety]
The 4400
The CW’s reimagining of 2004’s USA Network sci-fi drama series “The 4400” has set its first cast with “Arrow” actor Joseph David-Jones and newcomer Khailah Johnson joining.
Like the original, the series follows 4400 people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years and are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. [Source: Deadline]
