Old White Men Casting Roundup: 'The Hunt', 'The French Dispatch' and 'Dune'
Al Pacino set to join @JordanPeele's 'The Hunt' at Amazon https://t.co/48yRiy3ZlK pic.twitter.com/RwrYIEaeCE
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 10, 2019
- Al Pacino is set to join the Amazon series The Hunt, produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions.
- This would be Pacino's first regular role in a TV series.
- The Hunt follows a band of Nazi hunters in New York City circa 1977. They discover that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials have made a home in the United States and plan to create a Fourth Reich there, then set out on a bloody mission to stop the plan.
- Pacino will play a Nazi hunter mentoring a character played by the previously announced Logan Lerman.
Coming in hot after his first Emmy win, Winkler has signed on to 'The French Dispatch' https://t.co/p5qbkGsvsY
— Vulture (@vulture) January 11, 2019
- Henry Winkler has been cast in the upcoming Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch.
- It's currently filming in the south of France, and will interweave three stories involving the French bureau of an American newspaper in 20th century Paris.
- Winkler joins previously announced cast members Jeffrey Wright, Timothée Chalamet, Lois Smith, Bob Balaban, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and Adrien Brody.
Stellan Skarsgard to play villain in "Dune" movie https://t.co/rQgMeP6B8D pic.twitter.com/cM9YSPrTv3
— Variety (@Variety) January 10, 2019
- Stellan Skarsgard has been cast as Baron Harkonnen in the upcoming Denis Villeneuve-directed adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune.
- Other previously announced cast members include Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Dave Bautista.
- Production is expected to launch in the spring in Budapest and Jordan.
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Don't care about the rest.
I can’t believe they are still trying so hard to make Logan Lerman a thing.
Edited at 2019-01-11 03:22 am (UTC)
But I hear he's a great person and one of the nicest in the biz so good for him!