Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington and Clara Rugaard have been roped to star in Mary Shelley’s next Mary’s Monster, a film about author Mary Shelley’s mental struggle to write her 1818 novel Frankenstein. The film will be shopped at the Cannes market.

According to Deadline, the period film, which will have a contemporary sheen to it, will deal with Mary’s mental struggle to write her seminal novel. Danish actress Rugaard will play Mary Shelley and Harington will be ‘the monster.’ Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Coda) will play Mary’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sebastian de Souza (Normal People) will play Byron. Additional casting is currently underway. Described by producers as a “high-concept, rock’n’roll take” on the Romantic period, the film is on sale at the Cannes market via Metro International and CAA Media Finance.

The film’s official synopsis reads: “Terrified of giving voice to her own dark, transgressive thoughts yet at the same time driven creatively by them, Mary is seduced by her own inner monster catapulting her into a dangerous, destructive psychological romance the likes of which has never been seen before. Realising the monster is inextricably linked to her own mental state, feeding off her own emotions, Mary’s only route to salvation is in bringing him to life. To survive, to heal, to finally be heard, her voice must become…monstrous.” Shooting on the pic is due to begin in the UK in August of this year.

BAFTA winner Farren Blackburn will direct and Deborah Baxtrom and Stephen Hallett wrote the script for the project, with Marius de Vries serving as executive music producer. Fulwell 73’s Leo Pearlman and Heather Greenwood will produce, alongside Rose Picture’s Rose Ganguzza, Max Born, Jake Alden-Falconer and Damon Lane. Fulwell 73’s Richard Kondal and Patrick Fischer will serve as executive producers with Legion M.

On the work front, Kit Harington was last seen in last year’s Marvel film Eternals. The Game of Thrones star is also set to appear in the upcoming Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations, alongside Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller and Tobey Maguire. Meanwhile, Clara Rugaard is a Danish actress. She has appeared in films like Teen Spirit, I Am Mother, Love Gets a Room, Press Play and series like The Lodge, Still Star-Crossed and The Rising.

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Pete Davidson, Franz Rogowski, Naomi Scott and Sean Harris have been tapped to star in Wizards!, an upcoming film from Australian writer-director David Michôd that reteams A24 and Plan B Entertainment.

According to Deadline, the film follows two hapless pothead beach-bar operators (Davidson and Rogowski) who run into trouble when they stumble across stolen loot that they really should have just left alone. Director Michôd penned the script, which is based on a story by Joel Edgerton and Michôd. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B will produce alongside Liz Watts. A24 will handle the global release of the film, which will be shot in Queensland.

Wizards! marks the fourth collaboration between A24 and Plan B Entertainment following films as Moonlight, Minari and The Last Black Man in San Francisco. This is Plan B Entertainment’s third collaboration with Michôd after War Machine and The King. Wizards! will also reteam Michôd and Watts with A24 for the first time since 2014’s The Rover. Watts recently joined See-Saw Films through which she will be producing the film.

Pete Davidson is best known for appearing in NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He will next star in horror-comedy Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, his semi-autobiographical series Bupkis which was just given a series order at Peacock as well as voicing Marmaduke in the upcoming Marmaduke film. Meanwhile, Naomi Scott is recognized for her performances in the television film Lemonade Mouth, science fiction series Terra Nova and Disney’s musical live-action fantasy film Aladdin. Other credits include Power Rangers and the action-comedy film Charlie’s Angels and the upcoming film Distant.

Franz Rogowski is a German actor-dancer internationally known for his performance in the 2018 film Transit whereas Sean Harris appeared as Solomon Lane in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Philip in Possum and William Gascoigne in The King and miniseries Southcliffe.

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Amber Heard, who appeared at the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia on Monday to testify as part of the defamation case brought against her by former husband Johnny Depp, talked about former husband hitting her on their honeymoon to the point that she feared of getting killed.

The high-profile case in Virginia resumed for a fifth week after a pause. In court on Monday, Heard tearfully told jurors that she believed she’d likely “not survive” if she had remained married to Depp. “I was so scared that it was going to end really badly for me,” she said. “I really didn’t want to leave him. I loved him so much.” The Aquaman actor told jurors on Monday that Depp slammed her against a wall and wrapped a shirt around her neck during their 2015 honeymoon on the Orient Express. The pair married in February 2015 and took their honeymoon on the Orient Express train in July of that year after Depp finished filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

“He was squeezing my neck against the railway car for what felt like a very long time,” she said. She said she recalled thinking he could “kill me”. Heard said the Pirates of the Caribbean star would become a “monster” when he was drinking and her efforts to curtail his drug and alcohol use had failed. “The monster had been this thing that was now the norm and not the exception,” she said. “The violence was now normal. I remember being scared that he wouldn’t mean to do it,” she said. Heard also described her marriage as “at times, very loving”. She said that it deteriorated over a period of time to the point that tension and violence became normal.

During their increasingly frequent arguments, Amber Heard claimed that Johnny Depp would frequently harm himself. “In fights he would often cut his arms or hold his knife to his chest or draw blood, superficially at first,” she said. “He also put cigarettes out on himself.” In his own testimony earlier in the trial, Depp said that he never struck Heard and told jurors that she had a “need” for conflict and violence. On Monday, jurors heard a number of audio clips of the former couple arguing. In one clip – which went viral ahead of the trial – Heard can be heard saying she hit Depp. “I was hitting you. I was not punching you,” she can be heard saying. “You’re not punched.” Depp’s lawyers began their cross-examination of Heard later on Monday.

The legal case hinges on a December 2018 opinion piece Amber Heard authored that appeared in the Washington Post. Johnny Depp filed suit against Heard over the op-ed in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard did not name Depp in the op-ed but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages. Heard countersued, asking for $100 million and claiming she suffered “rampant physical violence and abuse” at his hands.

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Those of us who have been lucky enough to see Kangana Ranaut’s Kill Bill act in her on-release actioner Dhaakad will vouch for the fact that she is steps ahead of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. Kangana as Agent Agnee in Dhaakad is super-agile and fabulously flexible. Far more so than some of Bollywood’s major action heroes.

“All her action scenes have been choreographed by a team of international action directors,” says producer Sohel Maklai proudly. There is every possibility of Kangana returning as Agent Agnee in the sequel to Dhaakad. The producers are working on building Kangana’s character into an ongoing franchise. Arjun Rampal who is super-dynamic as the arch-villain in Dhaakad will also return in the sequel.

This is not the first time that Kangana would be part of a franchise. She has done Aanand L Rai’s Tanu Weds Manu and Tanu Weds Manu Returns. Her all-new action avatar in Kangana is a first for Hindi cinema.

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