A few casting notices:
Benicio del Toro is in final negotiations to play Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in Paradise Lost, which is not exactly a Pablo Escobar biopic.
Scoot McNairy booked two roles. He will star opposite Michael Fassbender in Frank, and joins Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson in The Rover.
The full cast list for Reach Me features Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, Thomas Jane, Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Kelsey Grammer, Nelly, Terry Crews, Ryan Kwanten, and more.
Details on each project after the jump.
Paradise Lost centers on Nick, "a young surfer who visits his brother in Colombia and falls madly in love with a beautiful local girl called Maria." It is a beautiful romance until Nick meets Maria's uncle: Pablo Escobar. According to Variety, Italian actor Andrea di Stefano (Eat Pray Love) wrote the script for Paradise Lost, his directorial debut. Dimitri Rassam's Chapter 2 will produce the $25 million thriller. Rassam made sure to note this is not an Escobar biopic---he instead compared the structure to The Last King of Scotland, "weaving Nick and Maria's romance with Nick's ambivalent and destructive relationship with Escobar." Shooting begins in Panama in March.
Deadline reported the news of McNairy's roles. Frank, loosely based on the life of musician/comedian Chris Sievey, follows an aspiring musician (Domhnall Gleeson) “who finds himself in over his head when he joins an eccentric rock band fronted by Fassbender.” Lenny Abrahamson will direct the comedy.
The Rover is the latest from director David Michod (Animal Kingdom). Here is the intriguing synopsis:
“Set in the Australian desert, the futuristic western tells the ...
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