Mackenzie Foy On For The Warren Files
Along with Joey King
Insidious director James Wan has locked down the final two core cast members for his new haunted house horror, now known as The Warren Files. And he’s hired two young actresses who have roles in what will likely be the biggest films of the year: Mackenzie Foy and Joey King.
The Warren Files is based on the real-life experiences of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who reached out to try to help the Perron family after they claimed they were being haunted in their Rhode Island farmhouse.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have signed on to play the Warrens, and Lilli Taylor and Ron Livingston will be the Perrons. Now Foy and King will play the daughters of the haunted family.
Foy already has some experience with horror; at least, the sparkly, tween-friendly type. She scored her big break when she was cast to play Edward and Bella’s hybrid spawn Renesmee Cullen in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. King, meanwhile, had a memorable supporting part in Crazy, Stupid, Love and will crop up in The Dark Knight Rises. Given the likely success of both those films, we’re secretly hoping they show up to the Warren set demanding massive trailers and ice cream for every meal. But we’re sure that they’re probably entirely lovely people, damnit.
Wan is set to start shooting the film later this month in North Carolina.
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Ford Won’t Be In New Blade Runner
whatever Ridley Scott’s new Blade Runner turns out to be, Harrison Ford almost certainly won’t be in it.
Scott had already said this pretty categorically several months ago, and given Ford’s well-known antipathy for the film (he didn’t come to love it like the rest of the world), the possibility of the actor’s involvement always seemed remote at best. But Alcon’s Andrew Kosove reiterates that with a fairly strident, “It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner.”
Franco’s Child Of God Already Shooting?
And Tim Blake Nelson is in it…
Back in September there were reports that, while James Franco had hit a wall with his planned adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, he was sticking with the author and turning to the earlier Child Of God instead. Nothing’s been heard in the meantime, with Franco’s name still attached to practically everything that’s announced, but there are reports this morning that Child Of God is unfolding in front of Franco’s cameras as we speak, and that Tim Blake Nelson is starring.
Even more bleak than Blood Meridian (if that were possible), Child Of God is a slim volume about a backwoodsman called Ballard. Recently released from jail, Ballard opts for the survivalist route, takes up residence in a cave in the East Tennessee hills, and goes on a murderous spree to indulge his penchant for necrophilia.