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Chris Pine Signs Up for Key ‘Wonder Woman’ Role *Updated* 0 784

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Update: Chris Pine has officially signed on to play Wonder Woman’s love interest Steve Trevor in DC’s forthcoming standalone superhero movie.

Warner Bros. is gearing up its long-awaited standalone Wonder Woman movie, with Fast & Furious star Gal Gadot set to play the eponymous superheroine. Now it looks like the studio is adding a big name for a key role.

Variety reports that Captain Kirk himself Chris Pine is in talks to join the female-led superhero flick as Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman’s love interest in the film that will tell the origin story of the character following her debut appearance in Zack Snyder’s hugely anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Scott “Son of Clint” Eastwood was reportedly up for the part before but he was given the choice of testing for that role or a guaranteed supporting role in Suicide Squad. Evidently he opted for the latter and now Pine has jumped into the mix, impressing execs in meetings and winning out over certain other unnamed actors after the studio decided to go with a bigger name for the part.

We obviously don’t yet know the exact plot of the first proper big-screen live action Wonder Woman outing (hard to believe it’s taken this long to come about, isn’t it?) but in the comics at least Steve Trevor is a WWII intelligence officer whose plane crashes on Paradise Island, the isolated homeland of the Amazons. The Amazon princess Diana then nurses him back to health and falls in love with him, following him back to the outside world where she eventually becomes the eponymous hero (and co-worker under the alias Diana Prince).

Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins (‘Monster’, recently replaced Michelle McLaren) and written by Jason Fuchs (‘Pan’). It’s set for release on June 23rd, 2017.

Source: Variety

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Watch: Incredible New Trailer for ‘The Revenant’ 0 1242

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We don’t usually post trailers individually – saving them for the Trailer Watch – but this one was just too good to pass up.

The Revenant is the new film from acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who most recently won an Oscar for Birdman. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter in a tale of a forntierman in 1820 who sets out on a path of vengeance who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

We already had one amazing teaser trailer, now check out the equally great new trailer below:

Could this be the film that finally wins Leo his Best Actor Oscar? Quite possibly!

The Revenant is set for release in the UK on January 15th, 2016.

Vincent Cassel To Play Villain in Next ‘Bourne’ Film 0 1465

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After a fourth Bourne film in which Jason himself was conspicuous by his absence, things are returning to the old but brilliant formula of Matt Damon starring and Paul Greengrass directing.

We already know that in addition to Damon returning (rejoice!), Tommy Lee Jones and woman-of-the-moment Alicia Vikander are part of the cast, playing a tough CIA operative and (presumed) love interest, respectively, as well as Julia Stiles reprising her small but crucial role as Bourne helper Nicky Parsons. But now we’re getting word that one of the best French actors in the business is also joining the cast.

Variety has the news that the wonderful Vincent Cassel has signed on to the spy action sequel as its main villain, which will see him match wits and possibly even go toe-to-toe go with the former amnesiac hero. Although exact plot details are being kept secret for the time being, sources are saying that Cassel will play an assassin tracking Bourne. No doubt he will tie in with the Treadstone/Blackbriar history of the Bourne mythology – maybe he’ll be a scorned fellow assassin who feels Bourne somehow wronged him/was chosen ahead of him.

The series has a pedigree of casting great actors as assassins, whether it be Clive Owen in The Bourne Identity, Karl Urban in Supremacy, Edgar Ramirez in Ultimatum and Oscar Isaac in Legacy.

I was already looking forward to the return of the Damon-Greengrass team but the addition of Cassel – genuinely one of my favourite actors of modern times – only makes me wish next summer would get here sooner.

The as-yet-untitled Bourne sequel is set to start shooting this year for a July 29th, 2016 release date.

Source: Variety