New Films in Production, v.2

[therewillbeblus]

Brady Corbet’s next film will allegedly be an NC-17 four hour film spanning over a century and a half

Cate Blanchett just joined Michael Fassbender and Selena Gomez in the cast, with Gomez expected to be the star

[soundchaser]

Interesting casting so far. Here's hoping Gomez and Blanchett get to play off each other a bit, given the (presumably) segmented structure.

[cantinflas]

October (Jeremy Saulnier)

This is apparently now titled Slayground. Supposedly it's a "Halloween-set horror action thriller film". A teaser has been screening in cinemas over the weekend and there's an official site with a bunch of surveillance camera footage and a countdown timer:

https://www.runlikehell.com/

[cantinflas]

Here's the promo for Slayground

[soundchaser]

Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter to play Adele Astaire and Ginger Rogers, respectively, in the Tom Holland-led Fred Astaire biopic.

[Aspect]

I know actors don’t necessarily have to resemble the real individuals they’re playing, but this seems especially egregious on all three counts. Makeup can work wonders, I suppose.

[Brian C]

Can’t be any worse than Nic Cage in a goofy-looking fat suit playing John Madden.

[swo17]

I can kinda see Astaire in Holland's nose and mouth

[domino harvey]

This is a bad idea in general but I don’t think these are necessarily bad casting decisions. Holland has a kind of gamine quality to his physicality that Astaire also had, though I don’t see the kind of would-be aristocratic grace in him (in passing— I’m not sure I’ve actually seen any movie he has starred in). I read the casting as Sydney Sweeney and I actually thought that wasn’t half bad (if you’ve ever seen Rogers speak unscripted, you’d know it doesn’t take a mental heavyweight to depict her and she too was initially bolstered as just a pretty face) but my first impression is that Sabrina Carpenter is way too tiny to pull this off, though probably a much more accomplished performer than anyone else in the cast from her Disney background