Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Rachel McAdams and Abby Ryder Fortson (“Ant-Man”) have been cast in the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s 1970 coming-of-age novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” at Lionsgate.
Fortson will play Margaret Simon, a sixth-grade girl who is going through puberty and searches the universe for any answers she can find. McAdams is her mother, Barbara. Kelly Fremon Craig pens and directs the film which is expected to begin production in April. [Source: EW]
Ms. Marvel
Laurel Marsden (“Survive”) will play Zoe Zimmer in the Marvel Studios and Disney+ series “Ms. Marvel” currently in production in Atlanta.
The series centers on teenage hero Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and in the comics Zimmer is the first person she saves – becoming a kind of friend and kind of bully at other times. [Source: Heat Vision]
Wash Me in the River
Migos band member Quavo will make his feature-film debut alongside Robert DeNiro, John Malkovich and Jack Huston in Randall Emmett’s new film “Wash Me in the River” currently filming in Puerto Rico.
Quavo will play a ruthless and heartless drug lord in the Adam Taylor Barker-scripted action-thriller focusing on a recovering opioid addict who seeks revenge on the dealer (Coyote) responsible for selling the drugs that resulted in his lover’s death. [Source: Variety]
Journal For Jordan
Robert Wisdom, Johnny M. Wu and newcomer Jalon Christian will join Michael B. Jordan and Chante Adams in the Denzel Washington-directed “Journal For Jordan” at Sony Pictures.
Based on Dana Canedy’s 2008 memoir and adapted by Oscar nominee Virgil Williams, the true story tale follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Canedy and her love affair with First Sgt. Charles Monroe King who was killed in Iraq in 2006 when their child together was just seven months old. [Source: Deadline]
The Legitimate Wise Guy
Harvey Keitel, Emile Hirsch and Ruby Rose are set to star in the true story gangster drama “The Legitimate Wise Guy” about notoriously feared Chicago mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro in the 1920s.
During his time running casino skimming operations in Las Vegas, he begins to mentor and lure an aspiring actor into his criminal web. George Gallo helms the film penned by Nicholas Celozzi and Jim McGrath, with shooting kicking off this Spring. [Source: THR]
