Attachments (Film)

Disney is making a wish to have the unlikely choice of Guy Ritchie direct their live-action adaptation of Aladdin. The project is in a long line of live-action adaptations for the Mouse House including this year’s The Jungle Book, the upcoming Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and the recently announced Lion King.

The big screen adaptation of Lois Duncan’s book Down a Dark Hall has tapped AnnaSophia Robb to star. The teen supernatural mystery will be directed by Rodrigo Cortes and produced by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.

Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has officially joined the all-star cast of Marvel’s Black Panther. Whitaker is set to join Chadwick Boseman, who stars as the titular superhero, in a role that has been kept under wraps.

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Universal Pictures has tapped Moonlight director Barry Jenkins to pen a coming-of-age tale based on the life of boxing champ Claressa “T-Rex” Shields.

The upcoming Disney sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, has found its grown-up Jane Banks, one of the original siblings from the 1964 classic. Emily Mortimer will be taking on the role in the film directed by Rob Marshall

Disney is looking to Adam Shankman to direct Disenchanted, the sequel to the 2007 fairy tale-meets-the modern world musical Enchanted starring Amy Adams.

The Nice Guys actor Angourie Rice has been added to the star-studded cast of Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. She joins previously cast Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, and Colin Farrell.

Reese Witherspoon-starrer Home Again has added Candice Bergen to the cast. He joins previously cast Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, and Lake Bell in the film from Hallie Meyers-Shyer.

Actor and singer Eiza Gonzalez has joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of the manga series Alita: Battle Angel. James Cameron, who was previously attached to direct, wrote the script based on Yukito Kishiro’s original material.

Limitless star Jake McDorman has joined the upcoming film Unlovable from internet sensation Charlene deGuzman and actor-writer-director Mark Duplass. In July, the project started a Kickstarter campaign and ended up raising over $60,000 in August.

The Weinstein Company drama The Current War is looking to add Nicholas Hoult to the fold as Nikola Tesla. Once signed on, Hoult will join Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon in the story based on the events of the “War of Currents” between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.

The forthcoming comedy The War with Grandpa has tapped acting legends Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken to star. The movie will be the first time the actors have worked together since the 1978 Academy Award-winning drama The Deer Hunter.

The upcoming lesbian romantic drama Disobedience is in talks to add Canadian actor Rachel McAdams in a co-starring role with Rachel Weisz. The film is an adaptation of the Naomi Alderman novel of the same name.

After being passed around, Amblin Entertainment’s sci-fi romance Intelligent Life may have officially landed in the hands of Jay Roach. The award-winning writer-director is circling the project originally written by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.

The upcoming drama about a 21st Century pop star has added actor Jude Law to the cast. Vox Lux comes from director-writer Brady Corbet and is currently in development at Killer Groups and Three Six Zero Group.

It seems there’s never any limit to films about boxing. Hereford Films has acquired the rights to the autobiography of bare-knuckle boxer Roy Shaw with the intention of adapting the material in Pretty Boy starring actor Mark Harris as Shaw.

James Cameron’s adaptation of the popular manga Alita: Battle Angel is looking to cast buzzworthy actor Mahershala Ali. When the Emmy-nominated actor officially signs on he will join Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jackie Earl Haley, Ed Skrein and Keann Johnson for the sci-fi pic.

Disney didn’t have to go far to find a director for their upcoming animated feature Gigantic. Inside Out co-writer Meg LeFauve has signed on to join Nathan Greno on the updated take on the Jack and the Beanstalk fairytale.

The remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria just took a huge step forward with the casting of Chloe Grace Moretz in the starring role. She will join Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, and Mia Goth in the retelling of the horror classic.

Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson and Academy Award-nominated actor Stanley Tucci have officially signed on to star in The Children Act. Adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel, the film will be directed by Richard Eyre.

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is in talks to star in Shoot Like a Girl, TriStar’s adaptation of Mary Jennings Hegar’s upcoming memoir “Shoot Like a Girl: How One Woman’s War Against the Taliban Led to Her Victory Over the Department of Defense.”

The long-gestating adaptation of Doug Stanton’s book Horse Soldiers has landed Michael Shannon and Chris Hemsworth to star. Based on a true story, the movie is set weeks after 9/11 when special forces soldiers are sent to Afghanistan. The small team’s mission is to take over the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, but modern-day weapons prove useless in the rugged terrain.

Nebraska cinematographer Phedon Papamichael has been tapped to direct the international heist thriller THE SILVER ARROW. Screenwriter Nika Agiashvili penned the spec script which was nabbed by Green-Light International.

Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Murder on the Orient Express is starting to take shape with an impressive A-list cast. Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, and Michael Pena have all received a ticket to ride on the adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie murder mystery.

The film will mark Rachel Weisz’s first run as a producer. Element Films’ Ed Guiney will also produce alongside Frida Torresblanco of Braven Films and Film 4. Sebastian Lelio is set to direct the script adapted by him and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

The Weinstein Company’s The Current War has tapped Michael Shannon to play George Westinghouse opposite Benedict Cumberbatch’s Thomas Edison.

Person of Interest alum Winston Duke has been tapped for Marvel’s forthcoming Black Panther movie starring Chadwick Boseman. Duke is set to play one of the movie’s key villains, M’Baku, who is also known as Man-Ape.

The upcoming Scarface project from Antoine Fuqua has hired Terence Winter to rewrite the script from a previous draft by Jonathan Herman. Given his work on The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, he’s a natural choice for the film.

Spectre director Sam Mendes has boarded Beautiful Ruins, the adaptation of the book of the same name, as a producer and potential director.