Lonely Planet
Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth will star in Susannah Grant’s Morocco-set romance drama “Lonely Planet” for Netflix. Grant, Sarah Timberman and Liza Chasin will produce. [Source: THR]
Ending Things
Anthony Mackie and Priyanka Chopra will lead the action-adventure feature “Ending Things” at Amazon Studios. Kevin Sullivan penned the film about a hit-woman who wants to retire and tells her ‘business’ partner she’s ending their personal relationship as well.
She soon realises she doesn’t want to end that part of their bond. In order to survive the breakup, and their last job together, they must join forces for one last night out. Jeremy Stein will produce. [Source: Deadline]
Damsel
Angela Bassett has joined Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Netflix fantasy film “Damsel” starring Millie Bobby Brown. Bassett will play Brown’s stepmother Lady Bayford.
Dan Mazeau’s script follows a princess shocked to discover that she’ll be sacrificed to the kingdom’s sacred cave dragon, after being married to her prince charming. [Source: Deadline]
Creed III
Selenis Leyva, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Spence Moore II and Mila Davis-Kent have all joined the Michael B. Jordan-directed “Creed III” at MGM. The group join previously announced stars Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Wood Harris, Florian Munteanu and Phylicia Rashad in the project set for a theatrical release this Thanksgiving. [Source: Variety]
Gray
Lydia West (“It’s a Sin”) will replace Nathalie Emmanuel in a co-starring role alongside Patricia Clarkson in eight-episode spy thriller series “Gray”. John McLaughlin and David Baldacci created the series which Ruba Nadda (“Cairo Time”) is directing.
Clarkson plays CIA spy Cornelia Gray who emerges from 20 years in hiding, dodging the government agents who suspected her of being a traitor. But just as she returns to her old life, it’s discovered that there’s a new mole in her old spy network. [Source: Variety]
