We begin a lazy day of casting news with word that Kelly Preston and Stuart Lafferty have joined Kevin Bacon and Aisha Tyler in the 20th Century Fox drama Death Sentence. The film centers on a father (Bacon) out for revenge after his family is attacked in a heinous gang-initiation crime. The father acts on his own sense of justice by going after each person involved in the crime. Tyler plays a homicide detective who aids Bacon’s character despite her growing suspicions that he might have committed murder. Preston will play the wife of Bacon’s character and Lafferty will play their son. [Variety]
The other bit of casting has Carl Weathers, Matt Lawrence and Brooke Nevin joining David Koechner in the Tom Brady directed film The Comebacks, a story about the losingest football coach in history (Koechner) and his attempt to redeem himself by leading his team of misfit players to victory. Filming begins October 11. [Variety]
Doom director, Andrzej Bartkowiak, is in negotiations to direct the thriller Black and Blue for Emmett/Furla Films. The pic revolves around a Boston detective who is desperately trying to combat an escalating drug war between an old-school Irish mob boss and a group of young thugs, only to learn that some of his family members might be involved. [The Hollywood Reporter]
In sequel news we learn that Stuart Gillard is set to direct War Games 2: The Dead Game, a sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick starrer WarGames. The sequel comes 23 years later as it begins production in November with filming to take place in Montreal. The storyline follows a teenage hacker whose world gets turned upside after playing an online terrorist-attack simulator game against a government super-computer designed to profile potential terrorists. All hell breaks loose when Homeland Security is convinced that he’s a terrorist intent on disrupting the fabric of society. [Production Weekly]
