The Random: Winona & Keanu, Hellboy, Jon Bernthal, Tolkien, Star Wars and more

– Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder will star in Victor Levin’s (5 to 7) comedy Destination Wedding. The film tells the story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, both pariahs at this affair, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves. But to act on those feelings would be to trust hope over experience, a foolish choice indeed. The pair previously worked together in Francis Ford Coppola‘s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) and Richard Linklater‘s A Scanner Darkly (2006).

– Lily Collins has been cast in the upcoming biopic Tolkien. She will play Edith Bratt, the wife of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien. Bratt inspired the Elven princess characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Evenstar in the saga. Nicholas Hoult will play the lead role in the film. The film’s script by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford focuses on the author as he finds friendship, love, and artistic inspiration among a group of classmates prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 – Variety

– The Hound sings us a song!

When you’ve had to much trailer time… #behindthescenes #got7

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– Jon Bernthal, who’s also back as the title character in Netflix’s The Punisher, will next star alongside Ryan Gosling and Kyle Chandler in First Man, the Damien Chazelle-directed drama for Universal about Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. Bernthal will play Dave Scott, one of the astronauts in the manned space program who was a pilot and partner of Armstrong on Gemini VIII mission. That film shoots in Atlanta in November – Deadline

– Check out this new image of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Mozimania

– The Blade Runner 2049 run time is 2 hours and 32 minutes, with an additional 11-minute credit sequence. It is 35 minutes longer than the original.

– Check out The Punisher with a Law and Order style title sequence – BossLogic

– “Spider-Man: Homecoming” writers Chris Mckenna and Erik Sommers are in negotiations to return for the sequel to the Sony and Marvel hit. Jon Watts is back to direct and will co-write with the duo. Tom Holland also returns to star as the title character. Plot details are unknown at this time – Variety

– Emmy and Tony Award winner Cherry Jones (“Transparent”, “24”) and Grammy Award winner Michael “Flea” Balzary, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, join the cast of Boy Erased, the coming-of-age and coming-out drama from writer/director Joel Edgerton based on Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley, who serves as a consultant on the film. In addition to Jones and Flea, also joining the cast are Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother), singer/songwriter and YouTube personality Troye Sivan, as well as Emily Hinkler (Tyler Perry’s Boo 2), Jesse LaTourette (Z Nation), David Joseph Craig (The Gift), Théodore Pellerin (It’s Only the End of the World), and Britton Sear (Unfinished Business, HBO’s “Vice Principals”). They join the already announced cast led by Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman, and Joel Edgerton.

– Hemlock Grove‘s Penelope Mitchell has joined the new Hellboy movie. Mitchell will play the role of Ganeida, an elder witch who has decided that Nimue’s (Milla Jovovich) wrath has gone on for too long and must be stopped.

– Scott McGehee & David Siegel have made a deal at Warner Bros to write and direct a new version of Lord Of The Flies, based on the iconic William Golding novel. They plan to be faithful to the novel with one major twist: the young students stranded on a remote island who descend into a savage social order will be girls – Deadline

– Matthew Woodson’s Bullitt poster is heading to Mondo.