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Confirmed: Kwanten and Smart for ‘7500’, More Casting Takes Off!
Back on October 26 we exclusively broke the news on some potential casting for CBS Films’ 7500, a new high flying thriller to be directed by Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge).
It was confirmed today that both Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood,” Dead Silence, The Knights of Badassdom) and Amy Smart (Mirrors, The Butterfly Effect, Seventh Moon) have joined the cast, with Leslie Bibb (Meeting Evil, Trick ‘r Treat , Iron Man) also booking a flight. Pretty awesome cast thus far!
Kwanten and Smart will co-star as married couple Brad and Pia Martin, who board Vista Pacific Flight 7500 with their two longtime friends for a trip to Japan. Bibb is set to play Laura Baxter, a stewardess on the transpacific liner, who is involved in a complicated and secret relationship.
Written by Craig Rosenberg (“Lost”), 7500 reteams Shimizu with Grudge producer Taka Ichise who will produce alongside Roy Lee (The Ring, Godzilla). John Middleton and Tracy McGrath are serving as executive producers. 
Warner Bros. has already dated prequel film The Conjuring: First Communion for a September 10, 2027 release, and now the upcoming movie’s two stars have been found.
Deadline reports that Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon) and Amanda Fix (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma) will play the young versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren in The Conjuring: First Communion. The scoop was first reported by Dread Central.
Plot details remain under wraps at this time, but the upcoming prequel movie comes from director Rodrigue Huart, from a script by Richard Naing & Ian Goldberg.
It’s not certain if Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be appearing at all, though it seems the film will at least primarily focus on the young versions of their characters.
There are currently nine films in The Conjuring universe — The Conjuring, Annabelle, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle: Creation, The Nun, Annabelle Comes Home, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun 2, and last year’s The Conjuring: Last Rites. Matt Donato recently ranked every single movie in the hit saga, and you can read that ranking article right here.
A Conjuring Universe television series is allegedly also in the works.
Franchise producer Peter Safran previously said of The Conjuring Universe, “There’s so much more to it that we haven’t dug into. So the truth is, I think there are really exciting ways to go with both film and television, frankly. It would be incredibly satisfying. People have been on this journey with us for a dozen years now. I think they want more.”
Garrett Wareing in “Ransom Canyon”
Amanda Fix in ‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ (2023)
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