Casting Bits: Adam Scott In ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty;’ Lou Taylor Pucci In ‘Evil Dead’ Reboot; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau In ‘Oblivion’
The latest actor to sign on toBen Stiller’s remake of the imaginative Danny Kaye comedyThe Secret Life of Walter MittyisAdam Scott. He joins stiller,Kristen Wiig,Shirley MacLaineandPatton Oswaltin the story of a LIFE magazine photo editor (Stiller) who daydreams his way out of a dull reality. No word on Scott’s role at this point, but given that Kristen Wiig plays Mitty’s workplace crush, I wouldn’t be surprised to find him playing another LIFE staffer who competes for her attention. [Deadline]
After the break,The Evil Deadfinds a new potential victim and the sci-fi thrillerObliviongets aGame of Thronesplayer.
Sam Raimi’s standard-settingThe Evil Deadis about to get a remake (or, more properly, a re-imagining) from directorFede Alvarez(he made the shortPanic Attack) and we’ve had an increasing amount of casting news in the last few days.Jane Levywill play the lead, a young woman who heads to a remote cabin in order to detox, whileShiloh Fernandezwill play her protective if slightly distant brother.
NowVarietyreports thatLou Taylor Pucci(Beginners,Carriers,Thumbsucker) will be Eric, “an intense academic whose intellectual curiosity gets him and his friends into trouble.” In other words, he’s the guy who finds and reads the Necronomicon, aka the Book of the Dead. That tome has the power to invite possessive spirits into our plane, and things go wrong from there.
Alvarez andRodo Sayaguesscripted andDiablo Codyrewrote the script; Sony Pictures will releaseThe Evil Deadon July 06, 2025.
Finally, just a couple weeks before the film’s March start in Louisiana,Game of Thronesco-starNikolaj Coster-Waldauhas joinedTron LegacydirectorJoseph Kosinski’s new filmOblivion.Tom Cruisestars in the sci-fi thriller, which also featuresMorgan Freeman,Andrea RiseboroughandOlga Kurylenko.
Cruise plays a surface drone repairman who travels the blasted post-apocalyptic surface of Earth while most of the remaining human population lives in orbit above, safe from alien scavengers that endanger surface-walkers. He finds a woman (Riseborough) crashed in a pod, and that sets of a sequence of events that calls his entire life into question. Kurylenko plays Cruise’s wife, and Freeman reportedly will be the leader of a human resistance movement.
Deadlinesays Coster-Waldau will play “Sykes, a battle-hardened, physically imposing, intelligent and extremely athletic military technology and weapons expert.” The actor returns onGame of Throneson April 1, and just shot a role inMama, which also features Jessica Chastain.
