As we await release date news of his thriller Snowpiercer (see a new still of Bong Joon-ho‘s film above), Chris Evans is keeping busy shooting a sequel to Captain America, but after it concludes, he’s keeping his options open before The Avengers 2 next year. Tonight we’ve got news of a potential project, as Deadline reports he is eying an adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Ten O’Clock People. Potentially taking over the lead role that was once rumored for Justin Long, the project would find Evans as a Boston man trying to quit smoking who discovers many people in power are literally monsters. The man who gave us ’80s horror classics Fright Night and Child’s Play, Tom Holland, returns to the directing chair for a fall shoot.
Evans’ Captain America director Joe Johnston is also prepping his next project, the long (long) gestating gangster biopic Gotti and we’ve got another addition to report. According to Variety, Anthony Hopkins is looking to join John Travolta and Kelly Preston in an unknown role. After completely falling apart two years, the project chronicling the infamous John Gotti finally got back on track recently and production is looking to begin this fall with a script by Leo Rossi.
Lastly, Viggo Mortensen has steered clear of the studio system for quite some time now and his next project will see him get even further away from Hollywood. After starring in the Argentinean drama Everybody Has a Plan, Variety lets us know that the actor will be headed to France for his first role in that respective language. He’s set to star in David Oelhoffen’s Loin des hommes (which translates to Far From Men), reportedly inspired by a short story in Albert Camus‘ novel Exile and the Kingdom. Mortensen will lead the period piece as a French schoolteacher in an Algerian town during the country’s war of independence from France. The story opens up when he begins bonding with an enemy that he’s transporting to authorities.
Are you looking forward to any of the above projects?