While our focus is always firmly on the worlds of Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Lucasfilm, the stars of our favourite galaxy and globe-spanning epics keep themselves busy in other projects, and here’s a look at what some of our favourite stars are up to elsewhere. First off, Mark Hamill will star in Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk.
Mark Hamill oversees a deadly journey in the trailer for the film adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Long Walk.
Director Francis Lawrence‘s dystopian thriller movie hits theaters Sept. 12 from Lionsgate. Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis and Judy Greer round out the cast.
The Long Walk focuses on an annual contest in which 100 teen boys set out on the titular journey that requires them to maintain a quick pace. The walk ends with just a single survivor.
Joonas Suotamo will return in season 2 of Wednesday on Netflix, alongside returning star Jenna Ortega and featuring ILMVFX.
View this post on Instagram
Galen Erso actor Mads Mikkelsen will star in Sirius for Oscar winning editor Lee Smith who takes up the big chair, as well as lending his voice to Scandinavian animated adventure North.
Mads Mikkelsen will star in “Sirius,” the directorial debut of Lee Smith, the Oscar-winning editor of “Dunkirk” and “Inception.” The Arctic action-thriller was inspired by a Danish special forces unit, known as Sirius Patrol, tasked with defending Greenland’s 8,700-mile frozen and formidable coastline.
Mikkelsen is one of the busiest actors in international cinema. His long list of credits includes Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Pusher” film trilogy and “Valhalla Rising,” as well as his BAFTA-nominated work in Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round.” Hollywood tends to cast Mikkelsen to play the heavy, with the actor portraying antagonists in the likes of “Casino Royale,” “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” On TV, Mikkelsen played one of the biggest baddies of all, starring as Hannibal Lecter in the NBC series “Hannibal.”
Snap Wexley actor Greg Grunberg discusses his alpoecia diagnisis on Talk About It Company.
From a 2018 interview, Natalie Portman talked Revenge of the Sith with Josh Horowirz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
In the present, Natalie will star in Photograph 51 for director Tom Hooper.
In what is lining up to be one of hotter packages at this year’s Cannes market, we can reveal that Oscar winner Natalie Portman is set to star in Photograph 51 for The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper.
Oscar winner Hooper is directing the pic which is inspired by the true story of Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking British scientist who first unveiled the hidden structure of DNA but whose legacy has been overshadowed. Anna Ziegler is adapting the script, which is based on her play of the same title.
Photograph 51 will uncover the story behind the brilliant scientist whose pioneering work in x-ray crystallography captured the image that revealed DNA’s double-helix structure, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for all known life. The movie poses the question how could Watson and Crick, scientists working on the same conundrum in a competing lab, have been awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery without even a mention of her name? Franklin has come to be known variously as as the “wronged heroine”, the “dark lady of DNA”, the “forgotten heroine”, a “feminist icon”, and the “Sylvia Plath of molecular biology”. Franklin’s pivotal role has remained largely in the shadows but Photograph 51 aims to reveal her quest to uncover the secret codes of all human life as she navigates both her colleagues and rivals before her untimely death at the age of only 37.
Mister Fantastic, Captain America and Madame Web (aka Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans and Dakota Johnson) team up in romantic comedy Materialists.
Meanwhile Oscar Isaac joins Kristen Stweart and Elizabeth Olsen in Vampire thriller Flesh of the Gods.
Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Elizabeth Olsen has joined Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac to co-star in vampire thriller Flesh Of The Gods from director Panos Cosmatos (Mandy).
Isaac and Stewart will portray Raoul and Alex, a married couple in glittering ’80s L.A. who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.
Samuel L. Jackson will join Eva Green in thriller Just Play Dead, while Stephen Fry (Skeleton Crew) and Celia Imrie (The Phantom Menace) are a part of the new Celebrity Traitors series.
