A bunch of TV stars found their way into the movies and one Hunger Games actor saw the odds turn in his favor. Here’s your big-screen casting round-up:
Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) will star in independent Canadian comedy Sex and Sunsets.
Dianna Agron (Glee) will join Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer in Luc Besson’s action-comedy Malavita
Gillian Jacobs (Community) will co-star in horror-comedy Milo
The Hunger Games’ Dayo Okeniyi will play in Runner Runner starring Ben Affleck and indie high school drama The Spectacular Now
Hit the jump for more on all four projects.
Sex and Sunsets, which will be adapted from a 1987 Tim Sandlin novel, follows a former writer/current dishwasher whose failures are immortalized on a blog. Seemingly, they’re planning a few changes from the book, whose synopsis reads:
“When twenty-nine-year-old professional dishwasher Kelly Palamino — who hears voices in running water; whose toilet tell him to eat fish; whose Water Pik quotes Ezra Pound — sees the dark-haired bride in full wedding regalia punt a football over the rectory before turning resolutely to walk down the aisle, it's love at first sight. And Kelly won't let a little thing like a wedding come between him and the girl of his dreams...”
Either way, sounds like some quirky fun. And Kwanten is a talented guy who should do well with an off-beat role like this. Directed by Jeremiah Chechik and adapted by Megan Martin, this one will get rolling this August in Banff and LA. (per THR)
Meanwhile, Agron joins Malavita as the daughter of De ...
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