In today’s casting heavy movie news roundup, we have Tom Cruise circling the original sci-fi project We Are Adam from T.S. Nolan (Apollo 13), Elizabeth Banks will take a Walk of Shame for Steven Brill (Little Nicky), and much more.

  • Variety is reporting that Tom Cruise has been attached to star in the original sci-fi project Our Name is Adam from Apollo 13 scribe T.S. Nolan, the synopsis of which is being kept under wraps. Mary Parent, producer of the upcoming Guillermo Del Toro film Pacific Rim, will produce.
  • The Hunger Games actress Elizabeth Banks is set to star in the new comedy Walk of Shame for Lionsgate and writer-director Steven Brill. The story follows Banks who will play “an aspiring Los Angeles TV news anchor who loses an audition for her dream job, and goes out for an uncharacteristic night of partying that leads to waking in a stranger’s bed with no money, no car, no memory and a phone message from her agent that tells her she actually won the audition. She then must embark on a ‘walk of shame’ across hostile neighborhoods on her quest to be on the air by 5 p.m.”
  • Woody Harrelson and Martin Sheen are set to star alongside Ed Asner in the 9/11 film September Morn. Described as “in the vein of Twelve Angry Men, the film is set to be directed by BJ Davis, and will follow intertwined stories featuring different perspectives surrounding the 9/11 commission. Fleur De Lis Film Studios recently acquired the project.
  • Variety is reporting that Maria Bello and Adrien Brody have been added to the cast of Paul Haggis’ Third Person, which already stars the likes of Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Olivia Wilde, and Casey Affleck. The film, a romance featuring interlocking stories set in New York, Paris, and Rome, will be directed by Haggis (Crash) from his own script.
  • Michael Jai White spoke with Crave Online recently about plans for a Black Dynamite 2, stating the film will be a “western comedy in the spirit of Blazing Saddles, which would certainly be a departure from the first film, which was extremely rooted in the blacksploitation films of the 70s.

    • Which of these projects are you interested in?