The Random: Watchmen, Gal Gadot, Gotham, Han Solo, Escape Plan 3 and more

– HBO has given a formal pilot green light to Watchmen and has ordered backup scripts for the project, Damon Lindelof’s followup to his HBO drama series The Leftovers – Deadline

Day One.

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– Ron Howard shared this image from the set of the Han Solo movie. Is this our first look at the Spice Mines of Kessel?

Spicey? pic.twitter.com/dLhop8S60T

— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) September 20, 2017

– Mark Wahlberg is set to star in the Paramount comedy Instant Family, sources confirm to Variety. Sean Anders is directing the film. Anders and John Morris wrote “Instant Family” and will produce alongside Wahlberg and Steve Levinson. Paramount is fast-tracking the project and aims to start shooting next year. The film is about a couple who decide to start a family and adopt through the foster-care system, only to find themselves raising three wild kids who have no interest in being parented.

– Gal Gadot is in early talks to join Bradley Cooper in Deeper, the MGM pic that Max Landis scripted and White God helmer Kornel Mundruczo will direct. In the drama, a disgraced astronaut embarks on a mission to reach the bottom of a newly discovered oceanic trench, theorized to be the lowest point on Earth. He encounters an increasing level of danger and soon finds himself in a psychological (and physical) fight against mysterious forces – Deadline

– Check out some new images of Evangeline Lilly in costume as The Wasp in Ant-Man and The Wasp – Daily Mail

– Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 2 starring Denzel Washington will be released a month earlier, moving from September 14 of next year to August 10.

– Production on Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films’ Escape Plan 3: Devil’s Station has commenced with Sylvester Stallone on board to reprise his starring role along with Dave Bautista, Jaime King, Lydia Hull, and Tyler Jon Olson. The are joined by franchise newcomers Max Zhang, Devon Sawa (Final Destination), Harry Shum Jr. (Shadowhunters), Malese Jow (The Vampire Diaries), and Sergio Rizzuto in the film, which John Herzfeld is directing. In this installment, Ray Breslin (Stallone) and Trent DeRosa (Bautista) must join forces again in order to rescue one of their team members who is held captive at the penitentiary known as Devil’s Station, a prison where no one ever gets out – Deadline

– Michael Maize (Mr. Robot) joins the fourth season of Fox’s Batman prequel drama series Gotham. Maize will play Grady. He’s part of Merton’s gang as Merton’s right-hand man, and has a past connection to Jonathan Crane, aka the Scarecrow. Check out some character images for the fourth season.

– Check out a teaser for Amazon’s Jack Ryan series. John Krasinski (13 Hours, The Office) stars in the series as the titular Jack Ryan, a reinvention with a modern sensibility of the famed and lauded Tom Clancy hero.

– The chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox, Stacey Snider, has been talking about the New Mutants movie – “New Mutants is about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers. It’s like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so they’re dangerous. The only solution is to put them in a “Breakfast Club” detention/“Cuckoo’s Nest” institutional setting. It protects the people on the outside, but it’s strange and combustible inside. The genre is like a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers. We haven’t seen it as a superhero movie whose genre is more like “The Shining” than “we’re teenagers let’s save the world.” – Variety