rad Pitt and his Plan B production company will produce an adaptation of David Kushner's Rolling Stone article "Anonymous vs. Steubenville." The story follows Deric Lostutter, an Anonymous hacker involved in exposing a cover-up of the rape of a 16-year-old girl by two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, who received a harsher sentence than the rapists.
Brad Pitt is also interested in an untitled WWII romantic thriller from screenwriter Steven Knight, to be produced by Graham King's GK Films (Eastern Promise, The Hundred Foot Journey).
Zac Efron is spearheading an adaptation of John Grisham's 2009 legal thriller The Associate, serving as both star and producer of the film. He'll play up-and-coming young lawyer with a dark secret that catches up with him and threatens his career and his life. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)
John Leguizamo, Lynn Collins, and Jim Belushi are joining the cast of the thriller The Man on Carrion Road. Directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego from a script by Nils Lyew, the plot centers on a botched Mexican cartel deal in the back roads of a border town.
Chiwetel Ejiofor (a 2014 Oscar nominee for 12 Years a Slave) is the frontrunner to play the villain opposite Daniel Craig in the next James Bond movie.
Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro nearing a deal to star opposite Emily Blunt in Denis Villeneuve's thriller Sicario, about a SWAT officer (Blunt) who travels to Mexico with a pair of mercenaries to track down a drug lord. Del Toro would play an assassin hired by the U.S. government to help bring down the Cartels responsible for the death of his family.
The Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons is in negotiations to co-star with Johnny Depp in the upcoming gangster movie Black Mass. As Cinemablend reports, this may mean that the actor is no longer a contender for a role in the upcoming Star Wars film.
Fox Searchlight released the first trailer for The Drop, based on an original screenplay by author Dennis Lehane and directed by Michaël R. Roskam. The film stars Tom Hardy, the late James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace and Matthias Schoenaerts and follows an ex-con trying to go straight whose life gets upended by a robbery gone wrong.
TELEVISION
David Duchovny is returning to network television for Aquarius, a gritty 1960s cop drama on NBC about a cop who goes undercover to track Charles Manson and the Manson Family before their infamous murder spree.
Amazon signed an exclusive deal for all previous seasons of the Fox drama 24 to stream on Amazon Prime, along with the upcoming event series 24: Live Another Day.
Broadcast partners S4C and BBC Cymru Wales announced that the bilingual crime series Y Gwyll / Hinterland has been signed for a second season, with production to begin in September on a new five-part series. Richard Harrington will return to the role of DCI Tom Mathias
Homeland will move part of its production to Cape Town, South Africa, for the fourth season of the show – which will serve as a stand-in for the Middle East, specifically Turkey.
FX released another trailer to promote their upcoming series Fargo, based on the Coen Brothers movie of the same name, and starring Sherlock's Martin Freeman.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Mary Higgins Clark appeared on the Today Show to discuss her latest novel, I've Got You Under My Skin.
John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black, was a guest on KCRW's Bookworm to discuss his continuation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow series with The Black-Eyed Blonde.
THEATER
Last week, I noted that Benedict Cumberbatch is scheduled to play Hamlet at London's Barbican Theater in 2015. Now comes word that his fellow Sherlock actor, Martin Freeman, will take on the role of Richard III in London's West End later this year. Apparently, not to be outdone, the BBC just announced that Cumberbatch will also play Richard III for BBC 2, in a production from Sam Mendes and Downton Abbey's Rupert Ryle Hodges.
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