Casting: Boxer's Wife and Caesar's Companion
Deadline has learned that Elisabeth Moss has joined Liv Schreiber and Naomi Watts on the set of the biopic Bleeding .The sports drama tells the story of Chuck Wepner ( Schreiber ), a boxer who unexpectedly made Muhammad Ali sweat. In the fight for the world heavyweight title, only an insane could put Wepner to win, but the stubborn hard worker was much closer to it than anyone could have imagined - in the ninth round he even managed to send the current champion Ali knocked down. Fight Wepner still lost, but became almost a cult figure for many boxing fans. The boxer did not use his unexpected fame very wisely - a riotous life once even became the reason for imprisonment, and only a loving wife Linda ( Watts ) could help Chuck According to the publication, Moss got the role of another wife of Wepner - a woman who accompanied the latter during preparations for the legendary battle. The film was written by Jeff Feuerzeig, Jerry Stahl and Michael Christopher. The director's chair is occupied by Philippe Falardo. Filming will begin this month in New York.  Alex Paunovich was cast as a primate in War for the Planet of the Apes , directed by Matt Reeves. Among the newly minted actors in the film series are Woody Harrelson and Gabriel Chavarria, who play people, as well as Steve Zan, who plays the monkey. The action of the film will unfold immediately after the events of the sequel. In the inevitable bloody war with humanity, the characters Zana and Paunovich can take the vacant places of the first associates of the primate leader Caesar , who, according to the director, is in some way will repeat the fate of his namesake from the original films and will become for his relatives “like Moses for the Jews” - a canonical figure. Filming for the movie, due on July 14, 2017 , began last week.  The cast of the horror film The Babysitter directed by McG is joined by Bella Thorne , Andrew Bachelor and Hana Mei Lee . The script for the film about a nightmare night of a 12-year-old boy (Judah Lewis) and his nurse (Samara Viving) appeared on the site The Black List and caused a wide response in film circles - in attempts to acquire the work of screenwriter Brian Duffield, the most persistent were McG and his company Wonderland Sound and Vision . One of the roles in the film is played by Robbie Amell, who has already worked with Thorne and McG on the movie "The Little One.  Filming is due to begin this fall in Los Angeles. The Topic of Article: Casting: Boxer's Wife and Caesar's Companion. |
