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Daily Bite: Leonardo DiCaprio for thriller ‘The Revenant’; Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly Re-Team for New Comedy; Final Trailer for ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’; Trailer for ‘If I Stay’
16 Apr 2014 : Deirdre Molumby
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Leonardo DiCaprio for thriller ‘The Revenant’
Golden Globe winner Leonardo DiCaprio has been cast in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’, scheduled to shoot in September. The film, which has a screenplay co-written by Iñárritu with Mark L smith based on Michael Punke’s novel thriller, ‘The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge’, is for New Regency, RatPac and Worldview.

DiCaprio will play a 19th century fur trapper who, after being mauled by a bear and robbed, goes out in revenge against his betrayers. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, Keith Redmon and David Kanter will produce with Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan and James Skotchdopole. Paul Green is the executive producer.

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly & Adam McKay Re-Team for a New Comedy
After working on laugh-out-loud comedies ‘Step Brothers’ and ‘Talladega Nights’ together, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have been reported to be working on a third comedy together. The new Sony comedy ‘Border Guards’ will see the pair decide to dedictae their lives to protecting American borders from illegal immigrants, only to find themselves stranded in Mexico without identification, having to sneak back into the US themselves.

Adam McKay, who directed ‘Anchorman’ as well as ‘Step Brothers’ and ‘Talladega Nights’, is in talks to direct the feature. Oscar-nominated ‘In the Loop’ writer Jesse Armstrong was recently confirmed to be scripting the film. Ferrell, McKay, and Kevin Messick are producing through Gary Sanchez Productions, while Michael De Luca and Jonathan Kadin will oversee for Sony.

Final Trailer for ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’
The final trailer for the highly anticipated sequel to the re-boot of ‘X-Men: First Class’, has been released. ‘X-Men: Days of Furure Past’ will see the return of Michael Fassbender as Magneto, James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, and Nicholas Hoult as Beast among others. As the film involves time travel, stars of the 2000-2006 X-Men trilogy will also return, for example, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman.

The third and final preview of the film aired on TBS’ ‘Conan’ yesterday. The trailer focuses largely on Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine character, who has appeared in all the X-Men films so far and whose character received two spin-off films. Wolverine explains how he has be sent back in time to change the history of events that will endanger both humans and mutants of the future.

‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ is directed by Bryan Singer with a screenplay by Simon Kinberg. It is produced by Singer and Kinberg with Hutch Parker and Lauren Shuler Donner. The film is set for release in Irish cinemas on May 22.

See the trailer here:

Trailer for ‘If I Stay’
Another new trailer recently released is for the film ‘If I Stay’, starring Chloe Grace Moretz (‘Carrie’, ‘Kick-Ass’) as the lead. The 17 year old actress plays a talented cellist auditioning for Julliard whose life is torn apart by a car accident that kills her family and puts her in a coma. The coming-of-age drama is directed by R.J. Cutler and written by Shauna Cross and Gayle Forman.

See the trailer here:






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