Casting: Newcomers to Mortal Machines and Attorney Monaghan
Peter Jackson continues to recruit a team for his production project, Mortal Machines , the first in a planned series of films based on the works of Philip Reeve. Recently, Hugo Weaving ("The Matrix") joined the cast and now there are a few more names on the cast. Patrick Malahide (Game of Thrones), Colin Salmon (Arrow, Regions of Darkness) and Rege Page (Roots) will also take part in the filming, reports The Hollywood Reporter .The events of the film will unfold in a distant post-apocalyptic future, where large cities such as London roam the planet on giant wheels in search of precious natural resources. The protagonist, a teenager named Tom Natsworthy , accidentally meets a girl who lives outside the city walls, and this meeting will change his life forever. The adaptation of the book for the big screen is being done by Jackson himself, in collaboration with Fran Walsh and Philip Boyens, with whom he worked on the trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. And another longtime colleague of Jackson and winner of the Oscar for Best Visual Effects - Christian Rivers has been appointed to direct the film. Filming will take place in New Zealand, with a wide release scheduled for 13 December 2018 .  Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story) will join Catherine Khan (Bad Moms), Paul Giamatti (Billions) and Molly Shannon (A Night in Roxbury) on the set of the drama Private Life , a project for the online service Netflix . The film is directed and written by Tamara Jenkins (Savages). The plot will focus on the writer, played by Katherine Khan , who will endanger her relationship with her husband by undergoing multiple medical procedures in an attempt to conceive. Denis O'Hare gets the role of an infertility specialist in the film.  Meanwhile, Michelle Monaghan (Source, The Path) is in talks to join Alfred Molina (Chocolate) on an indie drama titled Saint Judy . The film will focus on the thirty-year-old single mother Judy Wood , who moved to Los Angeles and devoted herself to immigration law. One of her cases was the case of an Afghan immigrant who was persecuted for opening a girls' school in her home country. Wood has fought years in and out of court, which has resulted in changes to the law on granting asylum to women. Thus, she not only saved the life of her client, but also the lives of thousands of other refugee women who faced deportation and imminent death in their homeland. The film will be directed by Sean Hanish (In the Beginning) and is set to begin shooting May 10. The Topic of Article: Casting: Newcomers to Mortal Machines and Attorney Monaghan. |
