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‘Close Encounters’-esque ‘Tomorrowland’ Nears Lead…

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After an exhaustive search, Disney and director Brad Bird are zeroing in on the star of the much-buzzed0about sci-fi project Tomorrowland, reports Heat Vision.

Britt Robertson, pictured, one of leads on “The Secret Circle” and “Under the Dome,” and Naomi Scott, below, who appeared on “Terra Nova” and starred in Lemonade Mouth, are the finalists for the role. The duo will be undergoing a full hair and makeup test in Vancouver in early July, sources tell the site.

While George Clooney is the A-list name on the Tomorrowland roll call, the script’s main character is Casey Newton, a rebellious teenage girl who comes to Clooney’s character, a disgruntled inventor, for help on a quest. Observers say the part has potential to be star-making, says the site.

Raffey Cassidy is set as a kid robot who joins the duo, and Hugh Laurie is playing the movie’s antagonist.

The plot has been described as being in the vein of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie about a man searching for extraterrestrials on Earth, and centers on the teen, the inventor and the kid robot trying to save a place called Tomorrowland.

The studio has spent months looking at numerous actresses (Shailene Woodley was an early contender), and sources caution that if the testing doesn’t produce a choice, the search will continue.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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