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More Casting for Supernatural ‘Chronicle’
Michael Kelly (Dawn of the Dead, Unbreakable, The Adjustment Bureau) has landed the father role in 20th Century Fox’s supernatural thriller Chronicle, slated for release next year, reports Variety.
The pic, produced by John Davis, will also star relative newcomers Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Ashley Hinshaw.
Josh Trank will make his directorial debut with the Max Landis-penned project.
Studio is being unusually secretive about the film and has not released a logline, though sources tell Variety that the story centers on “three Portland teens who develop powers from exposure to a mysterious substance.”
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Steven Spielberg Reportedly Making a UFO Movie with the Writer of ‘Jurassic Park’
Fresh off baring his soul and telling his own life story in the Oscar-nominated movie The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg is reportedly headed back into the world of extraterrestrials!
Variety notes in a report this week that Spielberg will “likely make his next project a UFO film based on his own original idea,” set to be written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park).
Interesting to note, Koepp is himself returning to his early roots with the next installment in the Jurassic World franchise. He’ll be writing next year’s untitled new installment.
Steven Spielberg is of course no stranger to extraterrestrial encounters, directing two of the greatest alien movies of all time: Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 and E.T. in 1982. It’s an arena he returned to in 2005, directing an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Even more recently, Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment produced the Netflix docuseries “Encounters” last year, which explores true stories of human contact with otherworldly phenomena. You can stream all four episodes of “Encounters” over on Netflix right now.
Stay tuned for more on Spielberg’s mysterious new UFO movie as we learn it.
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