Adam Scott's directorial debut, a Tina Fey/Steve Carell reunion, and more casting news of the week

Adam Scott, the fan-favorite star of Parks And Recreation and Severance, will star in his own directorial debut, Double Booked, alongside Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction), Zazie Beetz, and Alexandra Daddario. Per , the film “follows a successful self-help writer (Scott) and his heavily pregnant wife (Beetz) who organize a weekend away at a secluded lodge, only to encounter another couple (Brown and Daddario) at their cabin when they arrive. With a blizzard moving in they are forced to spend the night together, and what seems like an innocent system error turns into a chilling battle of deceit with deadly consequences.” [Mary Kate Carr]

After over three years of chatter, it seems like the long-rumored Chalino Sanchez biopic is finally moving forward. According to , The Umbrella Academy star David Castañeda was a standout among “thousands” of prospective leads who auditioned and is currently in talks to secure the part. The film, titled Chalino, will tell the story of Rosalino Sánchez Félix—a.k.a. Chalino or “El Rey del Corrido”—a Mexican singer-songwriter who helped pioneer Narcocorridos music. [Emma Keates]

Netflix’s keeps expanding its lineup to give the . After Steve Buscemi joined season two, is the latest addition to the cast, . The Westworld actor most recently starred in Netflix’s Big Mouth and its spin-off, Human Resources. It’s TBA who she’s playing, but it would be cool to see her face off against Wednesday Addams as a villain, right? [Saloni Gajjar]

LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, The Book Of Clarence) is in talks to produce and star in an adaptation of the video game El Paso, Elsewhere, according to . According to the outlet, “The film will center on James Savage (Stanfield), who while recovering from a toxic relationship, confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the truth of his own addictions and skewed sense of self-worth, learning that the only route to love is through healing.” [Mary Kate Carr]

Jack O’Connell, Rita Ora, and Marshawn Lynch will join Joe Cole in the action-thriller He Bled Neon, per . The film will be directed by Drew Kirsch, who has helmed music videos for the likes of Taylor Swift, Shakira, Charlie Puth, and more. The synopsis reads, “After his estranged brother’s mysterious death, Ethan’s (Cole) journey to Las Vegas for the funeral unravels a dark web of crime, forcing him to confront his past as he delves into the city’s gritty underworld to uncover the truth, risking everything he holds dear in the process.” Jack O’Connell will next be seen in the Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black, while popstar Ora previously appeared in the Fifty Shades franchise and ex-footballer Lynch was recently in Bottoms. [Mary Kate Carr]

Li Jun Li, who previously appeared in Babylon, is the latest star to board Michael B. Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s next film, per . She joins Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Omar Benson Miller, Jayme Lawson, Wunmi Mosaku and Hailee Steinfeld in the supernatural thriller. Details of the film are still being kept under wraps, but the film may have something to do with vampires. [Mary Kate Carr]

Tramell Tillman, who most recently starred as one of the menacing bureaucrats in Severance, will join the ensemble of Mission: Impossible 8 in an as-yet unknown role, according to . The film formerly known as Dead Reckoning—Part One also features new players Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman, and Hannah Waddingham, in addition to the returning cast Henry Czerny, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby, and of course, Tom Cruise. [Mary Kate Carr]

Dulé Hill and Sarayu Blue are the latest additions to the cast of Hulu’s limited series Orphan project. Written by Katie Robbins, the show is based on the real-life story of Natalia Grace. Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass play her adoptive parents Michael and Kristine Barnett, who became convinced that Natalia was older than she said she was. Per , Hill will play “Brandon Drysdale, the detective investigating the criminal allegations made against the Barnetts,” who gets emotionally invested in Natalia’s story. Blue will play “Valika, the parent of one of the kids at Kristine’s daycare center” who becomes a friend and confidant. [Mary Kate Carr]

There comes a time in every young starlet’s life when she’s called upon to play some sort of sickly girl in a teen romance. Now is that time for Mckenna Grace, the prolific child star who’s appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale, Young Sheldon, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. “Everything I Never Did is a bittersweet love story that throws away cliches and sparks with originality, spontaneity, and surprise,” the producers said in a statement (via ). “It tells the story of troubled teen Liam Black and Jenna Reid (Grace), a seriously ill girl, who together embark on a transformative journey of living and loving in the face of adversity.” [Mary Kate Carr]

in a rom-com? Yes, please. As much as we love to see her in serious dramas and horror movies, Colette deserves to have fun on screen. It’s happening in Under The Stars, which follows a romance novelist stuck in a boring relationship (per ). He takes a trip to Italy and unexpectedly finds love where he least expects it. Andy Garcia, Alex Pettyfer, Rob Estes, and Eva De Deminici co-star in the film. [Saloni Gajjar]

Dan Stevens is on a hot streak in 2024 so far with Abigail, Cuckoo, and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. It makes sense his next film is an exorcism drama. Per Variety, Stevens and Al Pacino lead The Ritual, which centers on two priests who have to put their differences aside to help a young possessed woman (per ). The film is inspired by the real story of Emma Schmidt, one of the most infamous exorcism cases in the U.S. Abigail Cowen and Ashley Greene will also star. [Saloni Gajjar]

Richard Osman’s fun mystery book The Thursday Murder Club is getting the big screen treatment, and with a stacked cast, no less. Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley are confirmed to star as three of the four septuagenarians living in a retirement club who meet weekly to pore over cold cases for fun (via ). However, the death of a property developer close to them brings their detective skills to the forefront. If all goes well, perhaps they’ll keep playing these roles in the future; Osman has written multiple sequels to his hit novel. [Saloni Gajjar]

M3GAN and Get Out star Allison Williams can’t stop, won’t stop doing uncanny projects (Girls included, obviously). Her next film is Kill Me alongside It’s Always Sunny’s Charlie Day, per . He plays Jimmy, who wakes up one morning in his bathtub after an attempt to kill himself. Or so it seems, but he’s sure he didn’t do it. So he teams up with the 911 operator he calls, played by Williams, and they set out to find who’s trying to murder him. She’s also an executive producer of Kill Me. [Saloni Gajjar]

Steve Carell and Tina Fey back on our TV screens is a dream come true. The actors, who previously starred in the 2010 film Date Night, are reuniting for Netflix’s The Four Seasons (via ). Yes, the show is an update of Alan Alda’s 1981 film, with Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield turning it into a series. It follows three couples whose tradition of taking vacations is disrupted when one of them divorces and the man brings a much younger woman along. Here’s hoping the rest of the ensemble is full of other NBC sitcom actors to make it even more fun. [Saloni Gajjar]

Former Lois Lane, , and six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams is heading to Boston to film Kornél Mundruczó’s latest, At The Sea, per . Frequent Mundruczó collaborator Kata Wéber (White God, Pieces Of A Woman, Jupiter’s Moon) wrote the film, which follows a woman returning from rehab to join her family on a beach holiday. Hilariarity, we assume, ensues. Adams is also expected to star in Taika Waiti’s upcoming Klara And The Sun. [Matt Schimkowitz]

Three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner is adding yet another project to her incredibly full plate. In addition to Blumhouse/Universal’s Wolf Man, Paramount’s Apartment 7A, and Marvel’s upcoming Fantastic Four film, Garner will star opposite Josh Brolin in Weapons, the upcoming feature from Barbarian director Zach Cregger. While details of the script—which Cregger also wrote—are being kept strictly under wraps, describes it as an “interrelated, multistory horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.” Filming is set to begin next month in Atlanta. [Emma Keates]

Brian Tyree Henry will be putting his dancing shoes on for the still-untitled original musical coming from director Michael Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams, which reportedly “draws inspiration from Williams’ childhood growing up in the [Virginia Beach’s] Atlantis Apartments” (via ). Kelvin Harrison Jr. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Halle Bailey are also set to appear. [Emma Keates]

28 Years Later—the first film in a planned trilogy from director Danny Boyle, inspired by his 2002 horror film, 28 Days Later—may have just locked down the sort of cast that has the potential to raise a franchise to “legendary” status. reports that Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are all on board for at least the first film, which will be penned by Civil War director Alex Garland. No plot details for the new trilogy have been revealed as of this writing, but the move is intended as a sequel to the original film, which starred Cillian Murphy as a bike courier who wakes up from a coma to learn the world has descended into the zombie apocalypse. Sony Pictures is also going all in on this trilogy. They’ve already tapped Nia DaCosta to direct the second film in the trilogy, which will reportedly shoot back-to-back with the first. [Emma Keates]

Apple and Skydance are starting to build the team for their upcoming adventure-film, Mayday, from writer-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. Details of the film are still under wraps, but announced this week that Maria Bakalova (Borat 2, Bodies Bodies Bodies), Marcin Dorocinski (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Lovell Adams-Gray (Power Book II: Ghost), and Clark Johnson (The Wire) were all onboard. Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh are also tied to the project as producers. [Emma Keates]

Per , SZA is set to make her film debut alongside , in an upcoming “buddy comedy” film from the team behind . () Issa Rae will serve as producer for the untitled project, which will be directed by Lawrence Lamont and written by Syreeta Singleton, both of whom also worked on the gone-too-soon Max series. Lamont also has a great deal of experience on SZA’s side of the industry. In addition to his television work, he’s also directed popular music videos for , , and more. [Emma Keates]