We’ve a trio of casting updates involving some major Hollywood projects.
First up is news that the brilliant Brit Tom Wilkinson has signed on to feature opposite Vince Vaughn and Dave Franco in crazy comedy THE BUSINESS TRIP. The main plot is still under wraps but it’s a film being directed by Ken Scott, who recently wrapped Vaughn’s upcoming comedy DELIVERY MAN. THE BUSINESS TRIP is being developed at New Regency from a script by Steve Conrad. Wilkinson will play Tim McWinters, a business associate and traveling companion of Vaughn’s character. James Marsden and Nick Frost are also said to be in talks.
Joining British lead Jack O’Connell in the Angelina Jolie-directed Olympian war drama UNBROKEN is TRON: LEGACY’s Garrett Hedlund. He’ll appear in the Louis Zamperini biopic based on the best-selling novel by Laura Hillenbrand as ‘Fitzgerald’, the head of the POW camp where O’Connell’s Zamperini is being holed up. Joel and Ethan Coen rewrote the screenplay from earlier drafts by William Nicholson and BEHIND THE CANDELABRA’s Richard LaGravenese. Shooting begins in Australia next month for release during Christmas 2014.
Finally, fans of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian survival franchise THE HUNGER GAMES may like to know that Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Patina Miller has been cast as Commander Paylor in Lionsgate’s THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 and 2. She makes her big-screen debut in final chapter of the saga being milked into two features as the rebel commander of District 8. She joins the recently cast Julianne Moore, Natalie Dormer, Lily Rabe, Evan Ross and Stef Dawson in the sequels again directed by Francis Lawrence.
Source: Deadline/Variety
