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When it comes to who is starring in Hollywood’s biggest films we have CASTING 411: Jeremy Renner, Idris Elba and Sean Penn!!!
This time around CASTING 411 has the inside track on who just landed a HBO series, a biopic and is getting a greenlight by a horror thriller director…
First off is Jeremy Renner who will be starring in Rocky Marciano Biopic titled “Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story.”
CelebNMusic247.com has got the details on “Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story” which will be produced by Morris S. Levy, and written by Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore. M.E.G.A. Films own the rights to the life story, as told by his younger brother Lou Marciano, and are looking for a director.
“Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story” will be the first authorized biopic on Marciano’s life and will follow him from childhood to his 1969 death in a plane crash. Marciano remains the only heavyweight champion to retire from his professional career undefeated 49-0.
Best known for his relentless style, Marciano held the heavyweight crown from 1952 to 1956, and defended his title against Jersey Joe Walcott, Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles, Don Cockell and Archie Moore before retiring at the age of 32.
The “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” star Jeremy Renner works for the role of Rocky Marciano since he looks slightly like Marciano. You can see Renner as Hawkeye in the upcoming “Captain America: Civil War” in May.
As for Levy, his credits include “Seduced and Abandoned” and the series “Cop Show.” Currently the IMDB reads that the film is indevelopment.
News about Renner was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
Next up CASTING 411 has learned that Oscahbologor winner Sean Penn sets to play the 7th President of the United States in his first major TV role in HBO’s American Lion.
American Lion is set to be a six-hour event miniseries about Andrew Jackson.
The project hails from Facebook’s Head of Market Development Matt Jacobson, Narcos co-creators Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard and Lionsgate Television.
The mini is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, written by historian Jon Meacham, with Robert V. Remini’s biography of Jackson as additional source material. Orphaned at the hands of the British, Andrew Jackson was a self-made man, a western outsider, a violent warrior and a beloved general who became the country’s first “People’s President.” With the fate of the United States uncertain, the willful and mercurial Jackson fought an intractable Congress and special interests to preserve the Union at all costs – leaving a mixed and deeply controversial legacy. Miro and Bernard are writing the script and will executive produce the mini with Penn (Milk, Mystic River) and Jacobson. Meacham serves as a consultant on the miniseries, set to start production next year.
Jackson was the only U.S. president to pay off the national debt. He fought corruption and stepped in to protect the union by denying states’ right to secede. But his tenure was also marked by controversies, including the Bank War and the Indian Removal Act.
Jacobson chalks up The Gunman star Sean Penn’s involvement in the project to serendipity. Back in the 1980s, Penn was hitchhiking along the road when Jacobson and his dad picked him up. More than two decades later, Jacobson again bumped into Penn when the two sat next to each other on a plane. The two reconnected and became friends. Jacobson told Penn about the Andrew Jackson project he was working on and gave him Meacham’s book. Penn expressed interest and earlier this year, when there was a finished script, Jacobson sent it to Penn. Penn responded immediately that he wanted to play Jackson.
Jacobson had already partnered with Lionsgate TV on the miniseries, capitalizing on his existing relationship with the Lionsgate leadership through his job at Facebook.
The project was later taken to HBO, with Jacobson praising the network and the studio for being “incredibly supportive in the development process.”
Lastly, CASTING 411 has an update on Idris Elba landing the role of Roland Deschain in the upcoming film adaptation, “The Dark Tower written by Stephen King.
King weighed in on the rumors that Idris Elba was up for Roland Deschain in the upcoming film adaptation. Stephen King set the record straight on how he believes the part should be portrayed in response fans who objected that the gunslinger might be reimagined as a black man.
Stephen King took to Twitter writing:
If Idris lands this role it could put him at the head of a different franchise, as Sony Pictures and Media Rights Capital hope for “The Dark Tower,” based on a series of eight western-fantasy novels, to be the first of multiple films. Drak Towers will be directed by Nikolaj Arcel (“A Royal Affair”). “The Dark Tower” has a release date of Jan. 13, 2017.
Matthew McConaughey is said to be in talks to play The Man In Black, one of the series’ villains.
Idris Elba is listed as rumored on IMDB.com for The Dark Towers.
ComicBookResources first broke the story…
