“Lost” actress Maggie Grace is set to join Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Fox’s spy thriller, now untitled project, formerly known as “Wichita.” The James Mangold project will follow a lonely woman (Diaz) whose world is turned upside down when a blind date turns out to be a super spy (Cruise) who whisks her away on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source. Grace will play Diaz’s sister which we’d buy. [THR]
Robin Williams will star in Touchstone rom-com “Wedding Banned.” The film follows a long-divorced couple as they kidnap their daughter on her wedding day to prevent her from making the same mistakes they did. Sounds in the same vein as the project he did with Mandy Moore and John Krasinski which looked rather vile. Just when Williams turns in a superb performance with, “World’s Greatest Dad,” he returns to the well of commercial dreck. We suppose it was too good to last. [THR]
Oscar Isaac has joined the cast of Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” and will star along side the likes of Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm and Scott Glenn. The film will center on a girl who is institutionalized by her stepfather and retreats into an alternative reality. [Variety]
Meanwhile, Issac’s “Che” co-star, Demian Bichir — who wonderfully rendered Fidel Castro in the Steven Soderbergh epic — will star in Irish indie flick “The Runaway.” The film is based on the true story of a South American pilot who crashed near a small rural Irish town in 1983 and then saw the local townspeople inspirationally coming together to build a runway to get the pilot home. This guy is a great talent to watch. [THR]
Shohreh Aghdashloo is in talks to join the cast of George Nolfi’s “The Adjustment Bureau.” The actress joins Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Anthony Mackie in the film based on a Philip K. Dick short story that centers on a smooth-talking congressman whose political future is thrown in doubt after a mysterious ballerina comes into his life. Nolfi adapted the short story for the screen himself. [Variety]
