Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
Andy Garcia is Father of the Bride: Warner Bros. is remaking Father of the Bride again, and this time the studio is focusing the story on a large Cuban-American family. Deadline reports that Andy Garcia (Ocean’s Eleven) has been cast as the titular lead in the movie, which is expected to be more of a romantic comedy than the previous versions starring Spencer Tracy and Steve Martin, respectively released in 1950 and 1991. Mexican filmmaker Gary Alazraki (We Are the Nobles) will direct this incarnation from a script by Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice).
Trevor Noah could be The President’s Analyst: Another remake announced this week is The President’s Analyst, which Paramount Pictures is developing with Trevor Noah. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Daily Show host will produce and possibly star in the political comedy, presumably as the titular character played by James Coburn in the 1967 original. Former Obama Administration senior staffer Pat Cunnane, who obviously knows about presidential matters, wrote the updated screenplay.
Hourman gets his time on the big screen: Warner Bros. has plenty of well-known DC Comics characters heading for the big screen in their own movies, but the studio is also making time for a less-familiar superhero, one whose history goes back more than 80 years. Deadline reports that Gavin James and Neil Widener, who penned the upcoming sequels San Andreas 2 and Now You See Me 3, are writing an adaptation of Hourman about a man who develops a pill that gives him super powers for one hour at a time.
Daniel Radcliffe enters The Lost City of D: Speaking of Warner Bros. heroes, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will now play a villain for Paramount. According to Deadline, the actor, who previously went bad for Now You See Me 2, has been cast as the antagonist in the romantic adventure comedy The Lost City of D. Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum are already on board as the good guys, a romance novelist and a romance novel cover model, respectively, who are kidnapped during a book tour.
Benedict Cumberbatch is another magic man: Already set to reprise his role as Doctor Strange in the Marvel sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse, Benedict Cumberbatch is now slated for another movie about a man involved in magic, albeit of the realistic variety. According to Deadline, in the historical drama War Magician, the actor will portray Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage illusionist who put his tricks to heroic use fighting the Nazis during World War II. Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow is directing.
