It feels like this should of been announced this past weekend at SDCC. With the announcement of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Variety has confirmed that Sebastian Stan who played Bucky Barnes in the first film will return for the sequel. In the comic series written by Ed Brubaker, Barnes didn’t die as believed, but rather was brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin aka “The Winter Soldier.” The character later is deprogrammed and actually takes the mantle of Captain America following the assassination of the Steve Rogers character. The sequel will also star Anthony Mackie, who is currently in talks to play Sam Wilson aka The Falcon, one of comics’ first African American superheroes. In the regular comic continuity, the Falcon wore a costume and partnered with Captain America, while in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe (from which many of the Marvel Studios films take their cues), the Falcon is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Joe and Anthony Russo will helm the film, set for release April 4, 2014.
Richard Jenkins is in talks to join White House Down, the Roland Emmerich thriller where the White House goes under siege by a paramilitary group that holds everyone inside hostage, as the Speaker of the House, who trails the Vice President in America’s presidential line of succession. Channing Tatum is the Secret Service agent who leaps into action to defend the president (Jamie Foxx). The film also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Woods.
Phase 4 Films will release under their new Kevin Smith’s SModcast Pictures Presents banner the superhero comedy Alter Egos. Writer/director Jordan Galland‘s film, “takes place in a world in which superheroes are real but have recently lost all government funding and public support. It centers on an underappreciated superhero who jeopardizes a dangerous mission with his own emotional crisis — his girlfriend is cheating on him with his Alter Ego.”
Marvel Studios has released a longer clip of their One-Shot short, Item 47, starring starring Lizzy Caplan and Jesse Bradford as a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde who discover an abandoned alien weapon following the climatic battle during The Avengers, and think it will change their fortune. The film will be available exclusively on the Marvel’s The Avengers Blu-ray on September 25!
Johnny Depp will star in Wes Anderson‘s next film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak will write the long gestating Houdini project for Walden Media and director Mark Waters. “The story centers on an unsuspecting high schooler who finds himself in grave danger when he discovers a family secret leading back to the legendary illusionist. Using clues left through the centuries, he must race to uncover the greatest magical secret known to man.”
21 Jump Street producer Neil Moritz is getting into the fairy tale business, “developing a modern-day retelling (of Sleeping Beauty) that finds the male protagonist accidently awakening Sleeping Beauty and finding that he can’t get rid of the lovestruck heroine.” #stalkersarefunny
Randall Wallace will write Gunslingers for Vince Vaughn. “It’s an action adventure set in modern-day Los Angeles, where heroic and iconic characters from the past collide with contemporary urban reality. It’s a movie that explores what real heroism is in a fun and unexpected way. It’s also a two-hander.”
Finally, here’s the teaser trailer for 3,2,1… Frankie Go Boom written and directed by Jordan Roberts and starring Charlie Hunnam, Chris O’Dowd, Lizzy Caplan, Ron Perlman and Chris Noth.
