The 2021 Artemis Women In Action Film Festival is going virtual this year with a centered, thematic focus on The Artist, and will kick off from April 22nd to April 25. Details are available on the festival’s website where you may also link to this year’s extensive official selections in feature and shortform presentations, music, screenplays and more.
David Leitch’s Bullet Train is on the way from Sony Pictures with none other than Sandra Bullock joining the cast of the Japanese novel adaptation about assassins who each find themselves aboard the same train. Bullock joins a cast headed up by Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon, Logan Lerman, Masi Oka and Andrew Koji. (Deadline)
Remember that Face/Off reboot announced back in 2019? Well, that project now has Adam Wingard attached to helm, joining longtime cohort Simon Barrett to follow up with a new script from a previous draft by Oren Uziel (22 Jump Street).
John Woo directed the original 1997 thriller penned by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, casting John Travolta as vengeful FBI agent Sean Archer, whose desperate undercover mission to save the city from deadly attack finds him swapping faces in a top-secret medical procedure with elusive terrorist, Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage. The procedure is a success, although before Archer can complete his mission, Troy awakens from his coma and emerges wearing Archer’s face, upping the stakes in a deadly cat-and-mouse game culminating in an explosive, balletic action finale pitting Archer against his sworn enemy.
Wingard and Barrett are best known for their work on thrillers such as You’re Next and The Guest, horror anthologies The ABCs of Death, and V/H/S and V/H/S/2. (Deadline)
Following announcements early last year, HBO Max’s The Last Of Us series adaptation landed its cast this week with Bella Ramsey and The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal. Based on the 2013 hit video game, the show is set twenty years into a future dystopia where modern civilization has been destroyed by a sickness that renders victims dangerous, blood-thirsty mutants. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Martin Bourboulon (Eiffel) is set to direct a twofer in adapting Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling classic 19th century story for the big screen with The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan, and The Three Musketeers – Milady. Dimitri Rassam is producing for Chapter 2 in association with Pathé, Germany’s Constantin Film and Spain’s DeAPlaneta.
Actor Vincent Cassel will star as D’Artagnan, heading a cast that includes Eva Green and François Civil, along with “Vicky Krieps as Queen Anne of Austria, Pio Marmaï as Porthos, Duris as Aramis, Louis Garrel as King Louis XIII and British thesp Oliver Jackson-Cohen as the Duke of Buckingham, as well as rising French star Lyna Khoudri as Constance Bonacieux”, in addition to other talents for target roles TBA, including for that of the role of of Louis Anniaba, the first Black Musketeer in French history.
Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière (“Le Prenom”) penned the script as production aims for this summer. (Variety)