OHMYGOSSIP — Ella Purnell is to star in Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’ for Netflix.
The 22-year-old actress – who is best known for her roles as Emma Bloom Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ and Tess in ‘Sweetbitter’ – has joined the upcoming thriller alongside ‘Goliath’ star Ana De La Reguera, ‘Sons of Anarchy’ actor Theo Rossi and Huma Qureshi, according to The Wrap.
The plot will follow a young woman (Purnell) headed into a dangerous and quarantined Las Vegas where a zombie outbreak has happened in order to find what is causing the undead to rise up.
When she becomes trapped her father (Dave Bautista) assembles a group of mercenaries to help rescue her, with the group “tempted by the chance to rob the casinos while they’re there”.
Zack will also produce the project with his wife Deborah Snyder and looking forward to the challenge, the director previously said: “There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one.”
The movie is based on a script by Joby Harold, who previously penned the script for ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’.
Netflix is renowned for giving filmmakers complete creative control, and Zack is excited to be working with the streaming service.
He previously shared: “I love to honour canon and the works of art, but this is the opportunity to find a purely joyful way to express myself though a genre.”
Zack is keen to take some risks with the upcoming project, promising fans that ‘Army of the Dead’ will be a “kick-ass, self-aware” film.
He said: “It will be the most kick-ass, self-aware – but not in a wink-to-the-camera way – balls-to-the-wall zombie freak show that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose [like this].”
The movie is scheduled to begin shooting this summer and will have a budget that could hit the $90 million mark.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Edgar Wright confirmed ‘Last Night In Soho’ has started shooting.
The 45-year-old director – who is best known for his work on the ‘Cornetto trilogy’ – announced that his upcoming psychological horror thriller, which is being co-produced by Focus and Working Title, has started filming.
The ‘Shaun of the Dead’ filmmaker shared a shot of the film’s clapperboard which revealed that Chung-hoon Chung will act as cinematographer on the movie.
The acclaimed director previously revealed that his new project will star a female lead, although specific details about the movie remain a closely-guarded secret.
Edgar – who is also working on a sequel to ‘Baby Driver’ – explained: “I realised I had never made a film about central London – specifically Soho, somewhere I’ve spent a huge amount of time in the last 25 years.
“With ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘Shaun of the Dead’ you make movies about places you’ve lived in. This movie is about the London I’ve existed in.”
The upcoming movie is based on a script he has co-written with Krysty Wilson-Cairns and will reportedly star Anya-Taylor Joy and Matt Smith in lead roles.
Meanwhile, actress Lily James – who has been dating Matt since 2014 – previously heaped praise on Edgar, revealing she loved working with him on ‘Baby Driver’.
The ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ actress – who starred as Debora, a young waitress and Baby’s love interest, in the 2017 movie – shared: “I think it’s credit to Edgar Wright – his script is really beautifully written and constructed and he’s really clever.
“He’s such an amazing storyteller and he does it through images and shots, so he makes us care for Baby and then Debora and then puts them together.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Richard Madeley doesn’t mind being compared to Alan Partridge.
The TV presenter stepped in for Piers Morgan on ‘Good Morning Britain’ last month and has been mocked mercilessly by viewers after a series of gaffes including swearing live on air, interrupting a cabinet minister mid-flow and sporting a very bold orange fake tan which left producers laughing behind the camera.
Addressing comparisons to Steve Coogan’s hapless comedy broadcaster, Richard told The Sun: “If people want to take the p**s, that’s fine. It’s a harmless joke.
“I can take it. I don’t take myself even remotely seriously. I know some people do, and they get offended by being teased — but it’s only teasing.”
He also addressed the fake tan disaster, explaining that a very early wakeup and forgetting to shave led to the awkward moment which had workers on set “laughing into [his] earpiece from the gallery”.
He said: “As I was going out the door I felt my face and thought, ‘I should have shaved. I will get a b*****king.’
“I went back into the kitchen, got a dry shaver and had a quick shave. It started to itch, so I thought, ‘I’ll put some aftershave balm on.’ Now I’m ­running late.
“I opened the kitchen cupboard, got what I thought was the shaving balm and put it on. I’m driving in to work and thought, ‘It smells a bit funny, this balm — it’s a bit woody. It must have gone off.’ ”
During his time on the show, the 62-year-old star also shocked viewers as he revealed he doesn’t wear underwear.
As part of a discussion about a new study which found 80 per cent of men kept their boxers for over 10 years, he said at the time: “I have been [commando] forever. I can’t remember the last time I wore pants.
“I’ve said this a million times over the years. A lot of blokes don’t these days.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Larry Lamb was left “weeping” when he read the script for the upcoming ‘Gavin and Stacey’ Christmas special.
The 71-year-old actor is set to reprise his role as Mick Shipman in the popular BBC sitcom, which will return with a one-hour festive episode on Christmas Day (25.12.19), and he has recalled how emotional it was getting to read what’s in store for his character and fellow castmates when he was handed the document just hours after the reunion was confirmed by co-writers James Corden (Smithy) and Ruth Jones (Nessa Jenkins).
Larry told BBC’s Radio 4’s ‘World at One’ on Tuesday (28.05.19): “I literally got the script just before I came on and I read the first scene and I was weeping.”
The former ‘EastEnders’ star went on to heap praise on James and Ruth for their incredible writing, which captured the essence of the programme.
He said: “It’s always in the writing though isn’t it?
“That’s the thing, it’s in the writing. What do you capture when you get it down?
“People ask me this question over and over again, ‘Is any of it or was any of it ad-libbed?’ It was never ad-libbed. James and Ruth captured the feeling, they captured the moment.”
He also shared how the whole cast was like a tight family unit, which made the series work like “magic”.
He continued: “They got it right, and then they spent a lot of time figuring out the people to play those parts and matched us all up.
“We all sat around in a hotel every night together like a family and the whole thing became that unit – off stage, as well as on stage – and the magic was captured on paper first and then we picked up and got it.”
‘Late Late Show’ host James and television writer Ruth said it was their intrigue to found out where the characters, including Gavin (Matthew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page) – whose relationship is the focus of the sitcom – would be today, almost 10 years on from the final episode, that made them take “the plunge” and write the hour-long episode.
In a joint statement, they said: “Over the last 10 years we’ve talked a lot about Gavin & Stacey – where they might be today and what their lives might look like. And so in secret we took the plunge and wrote this one hour special.
“We’ve loved revisiting Barry and Essex again and bringing the characters back together has been a joy. We’re so excited to get the chance to work with our fabulous cast and crew once more and to give fans of the show a festive treat this Christmas.
“Thank you BBC for helping to make this happen.”
James, Ruth, Matthew, Joanna and Larry will be joined by returning cast members Rob Brydon, Melanie Walters and Alison Steadman in the special.
‘Gavin and Stacey’ ran between 2007 and 2010.

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OHMYGOSSIP — EastEnders’ Sharon Mitchell is set to discover she is pregnant with Keanu Taylor’s baby.
The Walford matriarch – played by Albert Square legend Letitia Dean – will find out she is expecting next month, just weeks after she got jiggy with the muscly mechanic (Danny Walters), which will leave her hardman husband and Keanu’s boss Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) in a furious rage.
A soap source said: “‘EastEnders’ are putting Phil and Sharon back at the heart of the show.
“In a shock twist next month Sharon discovers she’s pregnant. But there’s gonna be a ‘who’s the daddy?’ dilemma cos she romped with her toyboy lover Keanu last week so is he the dad or is Phil?
“Having discovered she’s pregnant Phil excitedly tells everyone their news, much to Sharon’s horror as she doesn’t know for sure who the dad is.”
Keanu has also been busy impregnating Phil’s daughter Louise Mitchell (Tilly Keeper) in recent weeks, meaning furious Phil will be even more infuriated when he finds out about the double pregnancy shock.
The source said: “Phil will go on a bloody rampage when he learns the truth, especially as Keanu has also got Phil’s daughter Louise pregnant. The randy lothario has knocked up Phil’s wife and his daughter.”
While the shock storyline looks set to result in Phil going berserk for the umpteenth time in Walford, the plot will also focus on the serious subject of Sharon becoming pregnant aged 48 and the complications which arise.
The source added to The Sun’s Bizarre TV column: “It will also raise the question of Sharon having a pregnancy so late in life and the complications that come with that.”
Keanu and Sharon embarked on an affair last year – resulting in soap super-fans dubbing their romance Sheanu – but things had cooled recently, until they got it on again earlier this month in The Arches, where he works under boss Phil.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lorraine Stanley has shed 12lbs in six weeks after ditching carbs.
The ‘EastEnders’ star plays launderette worker Karen Taylor in the BBC One soap, but the costume department may soon have to go shopping for some new outfits for her character after she swapped packets of crisps for boiled eggs and plenty of fish.
She said: “I’ve lost 12lbs in six weeks. My mate Louisa is my fitness guru, she talks about nutrition.
“I’ve eaten a lot of boiled eggs, a lot of fish, a lot of chicken. No more crisps, no carbs.
“I’m enjoying it and I feel better for it.”
Also away from Albert Square, Lorraine – who is up for the Best Actress award at the British Soap Awards this weekend – has swapped London for the Hertfordshire countryside air, and admitted her house move was partly down to crime rates in the Big Smoke.
When asked if she moved because of knife crime, she said: “It’s a lot of things … fresher air, better schools, less crime in general.
“It’s a big move and I feel great. It’s lovely there.”
The 42-year-old actress has praised Kathy Burke for having a “great impact” on her career, admitting she felt hopeful she could become an actress after watching the star’s performance in 1997 drama movie ‘Nil By Mouth’, which features ‘EastEnders’ actress Laila Morse (‘Big’ Mo Harris) and her brother Gary Oldman.
Speaking on ‘Lorraine’, she added: “I watched ‘Nil By Mouth’ years and years ago.
“I never thought I could be an actor and I watched that and thought she’s from the ilk, and she completely inspired me.
“She’s probably sick of me saying it, but she really did, she had a great impact on my career.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Anton Du Beke is to co-host ‘This Morning’ on Friday (31.05.19).
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ professional dancer will present alongside Rochelle Humes – who filled in for Holly Willoughby on the show late last year – and has teased fans he will be showing off his dancing skills alongside The Saturdays singer.
Anton, 52, told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I can’t wait. I’ve big boots to fill, but hopefully viewers will welcome me with open arms.
“No doubt they’ll be a sprinkling of dancing with Rochelle at some point.”
The TV star recently won the hearts of ‘This Morning’ viewers with his ‘Anton Du Bake, Baking Fails’ segment on the show.
The stint involved him working in a bakery and cooking for his wife Hannah and two-year-old twins George and Henrietta.
Anton – who trained as a baker before finding fame on the dancefloor – helps viewers who are struggling in the kitchen with cakes, scones and biscuits.
This comes after it was recently reported that a number of the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ cast and crew have backed Anton to replace Dame Darcey Bussell as the new judge on the show.
Anton has been a huge hit with fans of the BBC One celebrity dance contest since it began in 2004, largely thanks to years of being placed with “novelty acts”.
A source told The Sun Online: “Loveable Anton is the cast’s favourite choice to take over from Darcey as judge.
“Some on the show believe it’s time for him to hang up his dancing shoes and sit on the other side of the table.
“Anton is a well-loved professional but it’s felt by many that his glory years are over. He’s often placed with the novelty act and has no chance of getting near the Glitter Ball. He isn’t a real contender anymore.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Joe Dempsie is set to star in new drama ‘Adult Material’.
The 31-year-old actor recently wrapped his time as Gendry on ‘Game of Thrones’, and has already thrown himself into a new project as he’s been announced as part of the cast for a new Channel 4 drama called ‘Adult Material’, which is set to explore the porn industry.
Joe will star in the show – which is being created by screenwriter Lucy Kirkwood and production company Fifty Fathoms – alongside Hayley Squires, Siena Kelly, Kerry Godliman, Rupert Everett, Julian Ovenden, and Phil Daniels.
‘Adult Material’ is set in modern Britain and will delve inside the porn industry from the perspective of a woman who has been working in it her entire adult life and has seen it grow from an illegitimate backroom enterprise to a mainstream and highly profitable business.
Hayley Squires will star as Jolene Dollar, a regular mother of three who is one of the top porn performers in the UK, while Joe will play Rich, her loving and dedicated long-term partner.
Siena Kelly co-stars as Amy, a 19-year-old girl and newcomer to the porn industry, whom Jolene tries to protect, but quickly finds her relationship with this unstable young woman causes her own career and home life start to unravel.
Rupert Everett will play Jolene’s friend, producer, and businessman Carroll Quinn, while Julian Ovenden plays US porn Kingpin Tom Pain, and Kerry Godliman plays Stella Maitland, an MP who forms an unlikely friendship with Jolene.
‘Adult Material’ will consist of four hour-long episodes, and is set to go into production this summer. The series is being written and produced by Lucy Kirkwood, and directed by Dawn Shadforth.
As of the time of writing, there is no release date for the series.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ITV have ordered a second serving of ‘John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen’.
The cookery series – which sees engaged couple John Torode and Lisa Faulkner cooking from their kitchens on Sunday mornings – has been commissioned for a second series which is due to begin on Sunday 9th June.
John said: “We’re thrilled that viewers have welcomed us into their homes on Sunday mornings and we look forward to being joined by some fantastic foodie guests in the forthcoming new series.”
Lisa added: “It’s a dream come true for John and I to present our very own cooking series together, especially as we now get to invite some of our friends and favourite food personalities into our kitchen too.”
The upcoming show has been extended to two hours – from its original duration of one hour – and will give viewers tips about what to cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Executive producer Sue Walton, said: “John and Lisa are inspiring to spend a weekend morning with, always providing plenty of take out along with a warm welcome.
“We are delighted to be going to a second series and look forward to bringing viewers even more fabulous and accessible food inspiration, not to mention an abundance of expert tips from John and Lisa in the brand new series.”
Emma Gormley, managing director, ITVS Daytime, said: “Testament to the pair’s natural chemistry, we are delighted to see a re-commission for another series of ‘John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen’.”
And ITV heads of daytime Jane Beacon and Clare Ely added: “Re-ordering this show was an easy decision for us.
“Viewers are enjoying our food-themed programming on Sunday mornings and ‘John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen’ feels a perfect fit to the schedule.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Michelle Gayle questions if she could’ve “done more” to help her former ‘EastEnders’ co-star Danniella Westbrook during their younger years.
The 48-year-old star played Hattie Tavernier on the BBC One soap from 1990 to 1993, when Danniella appeared in her first stint as Sam Mitchell on the show, and while she wonders if she could’ve helped her pal out more, she says she has “zero” influence.
Asked if it was “hard” to see Danniella – who battled a drug addiction for years – “self-destruct”, she replied: “Yeah. I send her little messages sometimes now but it was hard.
“She was a beautiful girl and got sucked into this world of people telling you it’s glamorous to do this, that or the other when you’re so young and susceptible. Looking back you think, ‘Could I have done more?’
“I have had a go at her once or twice but then I went round to help her once or twice when we were younger. But how much influence have I actually got? Zero.”
Michelle insists she didn’t touch drugs or even drink because she didn’t think there would be “second chances for black actors”.
She said: “I was overly cautious. I never drank or took drugs because I knew I couldn’t mess things up – I didn’t see second chances for black actors.
“I used to go to the Met Bar and just have water! I was so lame it was laughable.”
While Michelle hasn’t appeared in Walford since 1993 when Hattie departed Albert Square to visit her parents in Norwich, with the star leaving the show to pursue a singing career, she would consider returning to the soap for a “really good storyline”.
She added to the Metro newspaper: “If they came with a really good storyline I’m sure it would be tempting. And they’re a great team.
“I definitely haven’t said I’ll never do ‘EastEnders’ again, it’s just I’m doing other things at the moment.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Chris Gascoyne found filming Carla Connor’s special ‘Coronation Street’ episode “very intense”.
The 51-year-old actor plays Peter Barlow – the partner of Carla, played by Alison King – in the ITV soap, which this week has been building up to a special episode detailing Carla’s struggle with her mental health, as she believes she can speak to three dead characters – Hayley Cropper (Julie Hesmondhalgh), Rana Habeeb (Bhavna Limbachia), and Aidan Connor (Shayne Ward).
The special episode will air on Friday (31.05.19) and will be partly told from Carla’s point of view as she concerns her loved ones by rushing to the top of the Victoria Street fire escape in a fragile state, and Chris has said the scenes were difficult to film.
He said: “They were very, very intense. Ali has been amazing and has been very aware of the fact that people are going through this in real life. She has really felt that responsibility. We are all mindful of that when we portray something so serious and real.
“It is important to get it right.”
Chris says Peter is left feeling “terrified” when Carla disappears, and he found it “heartbreaking” to play out the scenes in which he finds her on the fire escape.
He added: “He is terrified. He feels like he has let her down and knowing what a fragile state she was in, he genuinely fears for her safety.
“They are desperate to find her before she comes to harm.
“It is heartbreaking to watch and Peter is desperate to get to her and help her, but he is worried that if they scare her she could fall. He has to make a decision about what to do for the best.”
And the actor says Peter will “be there” for Carla as she recovers, and thinks they’ll be able to tackle “anything else that is thrown at them”.
He said: “Carla is very, very poorly and it is going to take a long time for her to recover, but Peter will be there for her.
“They have had their ups and downs over the years but this experience has bonded them together and Peter will want to be there for her. They need each other.
“It will be interesting to see if this changes the dynamic of their relationship moving forwards. This is the most difficult thing they have gone through and if they can deal with this, you have to think they could deal with anything else that is thrown at them.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Michaela Strachan says Chris Packham is “a little terrier” when it comes to campaigning.
The 53-year-old TV presenter hosts ‘Springwatch’ alongside the 58-year-old star, and she “admires” her co-star’s “passion” for sticking up for what he believes in.
Chris recently campaigned for Natural England to revoke general licences needed to kill 16 species of “pest birds”, and received death threats and even had a pair of dead crows left outside his house.
Michaela told the Daily Express newspaper: “The amount of campaigning he does is phenomenal. He is so passionate about it.
“One of the things with his Asperger’s is he uses it in such a positive way. When Chris gets his teeth into something, he doesn’t let it go. He is a little terrier. And that for a campaigner is fantastic.
“No matter how many things get thrown at him along the way, he carries on forward and that’s what I admire him.
“He uses his convictions in a positive way. In the past five years, he has really stepped up his campaigning and keeps pushing.”
The former ‘Really Wild Show’ host also admitted she would love to dance on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ against Chris, because they love challenging each other.
She said: “Chris wins most of the time. His knowledge is second to none and so if we are doing anything on face, he wins hands down.
“But I would love to do ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ against him. I know I would beat him.
“Singing, performing I know I could.
“Facts – no. I don’t stand a chance. Wildlife is the star of our show and telling stories on ‘Springwatch’ is what I enjoyed.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Phoebe Waller-Bridge “got really obsessed” with ‘Absolutely Fabulous’.
The 33-year-old actress and writer is known for having created hit shows including ‘Fleabag’ and ‘Killing Eve’, and has credited the 90s BBC sitcom – which is often shortened to ‘Ab Fab’ – for giving her the inspiration to create her own shows, because she loved how the cast were able to do “exactly what they wanted to do”.
Speaking about her TV influences, she said: “The one that I got really obsessed with was ‘Ab Fab’. That was the big TV thing that made a difference for me. I was just like, ‘How are they doing that? They’re actually doing that.’ They were just hammered all the time! They were just doing exactly what they wanted to do. I hadn’t really seen it before.”
Phoebe wrote episodes of ‘Killing Eve’ whilst filming earlier ones, and has said the process helped her understand more about assassin Villanelle through watching actress Jodie Comer work.
She said: “Villanelle really grew in my mind watching Jodie, because the more playful she got, the more I was like, ‘We can go anywhere with this actress.’ Around episode four of five, Jodie just started doing this swagger. I was just like, ‘Where did that come from?’ And I realised it’s when she goes back to Russia, her home country, that she’s got this other personality there.”
And although Phoebe liked writing the episodes as she went, she admitted she prefers to write for herself as the lead role as she did in ‘Fleabag’, as it makes her “up [her] game” for herself.
Speaking to the July issue of British GQ – which hits newsstands on Friday (31.05.19) – she said: “For ‘Fleabag’ the play, I was the only one up for doing that at the time and I was the only one up for writing for me at the time … And it made me up my game for myself, I think, because I think the actor part of me was challenging the writer part of me and the writer part of me challenged the actor part of me.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Larry Lamb didn’t ever think ‘Gavin and Stacey’ would return.
The 71-year-old actor is to reprise his role as Mick Shipman in the popular BBC sitcom, which will return for a one-hour special episode on Christmas Day (25.12.19), and he was left shocked when co-writers James Corden (Smithy) and Ruth Jones (Nessa Jenkins) rang to ask about his availability for a potential return.
Speaking on ‘This Morning’, he said: “He [James] said, ‘I want to know it you’ll be available, it looks like we’re doing a Christmas special.’
“It was quite extraordinary. It was quite Hollywood-esque. Getting the call from this super-star over there in La La Land saying, ‘You’re gonna take a trip down memory lane.’ ”
When asked if he thought the show would comeback, he replied: “No. I got to the point, where I just thought, ‘They’ve left this jewel as it was and they don’t want to go on.’
“They were only ever going to do one series anyway.”
‘Gavin and Stacey’ – which stars Mathew Horne as Gavin and Joanna Page as Stacey – first aired in 2007 and then concluded after three seasons in 2010.
And former ‘EastEnders’ actor Larry has teased fans the Christmas special will be very poignant.
He said: “It’s amazing what he [James] and Ruth have managed to do.
“I just started to read the first sequence and I found myself crying.
“It was like running into someone who was a major part of your life and you’re just so happy about it, it didn’t matter what they were doing.
“It was just so poignant and I immediately was into the feeling of the whole thing.”
Larry admitted filming will begin “not too long from now”, and he thinks the reunion will be “extraordinary”.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Marwan Kenzari has joined the cast of ‘The Old Guard’.
The 36-year-old actor – who can currently be seen as the villainous Jafar in Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ – is set to star in the film adaptation of a five-issue comic book series of the same name about immortal warriors.
The movie will also star Charlize Theron as 5,000-year-old Andronika the Scythian, who is known as Andy, the leader of the warriors, an Amazon from the Herodotus age of ancient Greece and has no idea why she’s still alive.
Starring alongside Charlize as another immortal warrior will be ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ actress KiKi Layne, who will portray newest recruit Nile, a US Marine. A third role will be that of a French Renaissance thief, but their casting has not been revealed yet.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ‘The Mummy’ star Marwan will play part of the “long-lived squad”, a man who was once a “moor warrior”.
‘The Old Guard’ comics were produced by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernandez and the authors have described their work as a “fairytale of blood and bullets”.
‘The Secret Life of Bees’ filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood will direct the movie, which is due to shoot this year in a number of locations, including Morocco and London.
Kenzari can currently be seen in re-imagining of the beloved 1992 Disney animation ‘Aladdin’ alongside Will Smith as The Genie, Naomi Scott as Princess Jasmine and Mena Massoud as the titular street urchin.
Former ‘Saturday Night Live’ star Nasim Pedrad has also been added to play new character Mara, a handmaiden and friend to Jasmine.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Julianne Moore says sex in film is too often depicted as for “young people”.
The 58-year-old actress doesn’t feel there are “whole lot” of “relationship driven” movies in cinemas at the moment and thinks when erotic is explored in a film the focus is “usually” on younger characters and ignores relationships between older people.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper, she said: “They don’t show older men either. I mean usually when you think of movies and an exploration of that [sex] it’s usually with young people and it’s a romantic comedy.
“There’s not actually a whole lot of relationship driven films right now, when you think the biggest movies are ‘The Avengers’. I don’t think there’s a real exploration of romantic or sexual love in any of those.”
Last year, Julianne starred in ‘Gloria Bell’, Sebastian Lelio’s re-imagining of his 2013 film ‘Gloria’ which follows a free-spirited divorcee who spends her nights on the dance floor of clubs around Los Angeles, and the star insisted the representation of an older woman who is sexually liberated on screen “matters a lot”.
When asked whether representing an older woman’s sexuality on screen is important, she said: “Oh it matters a lot! Because we are rarely asked in cinema to identify with that person right?
“So the fact that she’s a woman in her 50s who’s happily divorced, to see someone who is that vibrant and that alive and engaged with life, and whose story is central, I think that’s great because it’s unusual.”
One scene in the film sees Moore’s character wake up on a sun lounger in Las Vegas with one shoe missing after a night out, and the ‘Still Alice’ star feels the film works as it’s full of understandable” moments.
She said: “I always feel that there’s more drama in an ordinary day than anything we manufacture. Gloria’s whole arc in Vegas is completely understandable.”

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