Lisa Frankenstein
Carla Gugino, Liza Soberano, Joe Chrest and Henry Eikenberry will star alongside Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse in Zelda Williams’ debut horror-comedy film “Lisa Frankenstein” at Focus Features. Diablo Cody penned the script which is in production in New Orleans.
Set in 1989, Frankenstein follows an unpopular high school student (Newton) who accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse (Sprouse) during a lightning storm and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dreams, using the broken tanning bed in her garage. [Source: Bloody Disgusting]
Our Son
Andrew Rannells, Robin Weigert, Kate Burton, Phylicia Rashad, Cassandra Freeman and Isaac Powell have been announced as joining Luke Evans and Billy Porter in the Bill Oliver-directed drama series “Our Son”.
The story follows a divorcing couple fighting for custody of their eight-year-old son. Oliver and Peter Nickowitz wrote the script, with Fernando Loureiro and Guilherme Coelho producing. [Source: Deadline]
A Man in Full
Lucy Liu will play a clean beauty company founder in the Netflix six-episode series “A Man in Full,” joining previously announced Jeff Daniels, Diane Lane, William Jackson Harper and Aml Ameen.
Daniels plays an Atlanta real estate mogul who faces sudden bankruptcy. Political and business interests collide as he defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace. The series is based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name and hails from David E. Kelley with Regina King onboard to direct. [Source: Variety]
Horizon
Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington and Jamie Campbell Bower have joined Kevin Costner’s historical epic passion project “Horizon” which Costner is directing, producing and financing. Filming begins on August 29th in Utah.
The project is the first of a planned film trilogy chronicling a multi-faceted, 15-year span of pre- and post-Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West. [Source: Deadline]
Chief of Station
Alec Baldwin and Olga Kurylenko are set for the Jesse V. Johnson-directed spy action thriller “Chief of Station”. George Mahaffey pens the project set across Europe and will begin shooting later this year in Budapest.
Baldwin plays a former CIA Station Chief who learns that the death of his wife was not an accident. He is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with adversaries and a rogue agent (Kurylenko) to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew. [Source: Deadline]
