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‘Harry Potter’ Villain Helps Bring on the ‘Rise of the Apes’
Tom Felton, who portrays Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise, has joined the cast of 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Apes. Felton will play Brian Cox’s son, co-owner of the ape facility, in the Planet of the Apes sequel. James Franco, Freida Pinto, Andy Serkis and John Lithgow also star. Set in San Francisco, “Apes” revolves around man’s experiments with genetic engineering that lead to a dramatic increase in the intelligence of apes and the onset of war for supremacy. Rupert Wyatt is directing the film from a script by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa. Rise of the Apes, which begins lensing this month, is slated for release on June 24, 2011.
Abigail Cowen (“Stranger Things,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” The Ritual) will lead the cast of psychedelic horror movie The Guide, Deadline reports this week.
James Badge Dale (13 Hours) and Edouard Philipponnat (Napoleon) will also star. Inon Shampanier directs from a script co-written with Natalie Shampanier.
Deadline details, “Abigail Cowen will play a young woman who enters a psilocybin mushroom retreat in an effort to heal past traumas, surrendering herself to the care of a psychedelic therapy guide (James Badge Dale). As the guide’s motives come under suspicion, the past bleeds into the present and the session unravels into a psychedelic nightmare.”
“This psychedelic therapy thriller is designed to be a visceral inward journey, and I am thrilled to go on this journey with the incredibly talented James Badge Dale, Abigail Cowen and Edouard Philipponnat,” Inon Shampanier said in a statement to Deadline.
Stay tuned for more on The Guide as we learn it.
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