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Jessica Chastain in Talks to Play Beverly in ‘IT: Chapter 2’!
Looks like they’re going BIG with the ensemble cast of this one.
Even before IT was released in theaters last year, many were begging for Jessica Chastain to play the role of Beverly Marsh in the decades-later sequel, and it seemed that Chastain herself was more than up for coming on board. Chastain, after all, had previously worked with director Andy Muschietti on his debut feature, Mama.
Today, Variety reports that Chastain is officially in talks to star!
“Sources stress that negotiations are early and that the script is still being worked on, but both sides have officially begun discussing her coming on to the project,” the site notes.
Sophia Lillis, pictured below, starred as Beverly Marsh in last year’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
Andy Muschietti is expected to return to the director’s chair, with Bill Skarsgård reprising the role of Pennywise. Filming is set to begin this coming Summer.
The sequel will arrive in theaters on September 6, 2019.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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