The Whale
Ty Simpkins (“Jurassic World,” “Iron Man 3”) has boarded Darren Aronofsky’s forthcoming “The Whale” at A24. Hong Chau recently joined the cast while Samantha Morton and Sadie Sink are in talks.
Brendan Fraser stars as a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter penned the script. [Source: Deadline]
Gasoline Alley
Bruce Willis, Luke Wilson and Devon Sawa are set to star in “Cosmic Sin” director Edward Drake’s action thriller “Gasoline Alley”. Tom Sierchio penned the script and shooting begins in the U.S. this month.
Sawa plays Jimmy Jayne, a man who becomes implicated in the triple murder of three Hollywood starlets drowned in a luxury hotel pool. Willis and Wilson play homicide detectives on his tail as Jimmy takes up his own rogue investigation to clear his name and ends up allying with the two men to expose the dangeous truth. [Source: Variety]
Ted Lasso
Sarah Niles (“I May Destroy You,” “Dracula”) will play a sports psychologist who has been brought in to work with AFC Richmond in the second season of Apple TV+ award-winner “Ted Lasso”. The new season of the Jason Sudeikis-led series is currently in production while a third has already been ordered. [Source: Variety]
Nyad
Annette Bening is set to star as famed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the biopic “Nyad” which hails from “Free Solo” directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.
Nyad, at age 64, became the first person to swim the length of Cuba to Florida without the aid of a cage through waters infested by sharks and poisonous jellyfish. Ann Biderman and Julia Cox penned the script and shooting aims to begin this Summer. [Source: The Wrap]
Searching 2
“Euphoria” and “A Wrinkle in Time” star Storm Reid is in negotiations to star in the sequel to the John Cho-led box-office hit “Searching” from Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Film. Will Merrick and Nick Johnson will direct.
The story will feature a new set of characters and an evolved Screenlife thriller format where the story plays out on the screens of the characters’ devices. Filming aims to begin this Spring. [Source: Deadline]