9/06/2013

'22 Jump Street Adds Amber Stevens; Willem Dafoe Joins 'The Fault In Our Stars'; Naomi Watts Heads to 'Holland, Michigan'



* With Brie Larson unfortunately not returning for 22 Jump Street, Jonah Hill is about to get a new love interest, and she may be trouble. Amber Stevens (Greek) has joined the cast, and while The Wrap doesn't go in depth on her character, our friends at Bleeding Cool suggest she will actually be the daughter of Captain Dickson, played by the returning Ice Cube. Definitely trouble. Also joining Hill and Channing Tatum in the cast is Wyatt Russell (yep, Kurt's son) as a teammate of Tatum's on the college football team he's infiltrating. Hill will be going undercover in the bohemian art major scene. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, 22 Jump Street opens on June 13th 2014.

* Filming has already begun on Josh Boone's adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars, but when you have a chance to add Willem Dafoe, you do it. Boone hit Twitter to reveal that Dafoe will play author Peter Van Houten in the anticipated drama, which stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as cancer patients who fall in love while in a support group.

* Documentarian Errol Morris is set to make his narrative feature debut with Holland, Michigan, and he's rounded up Naomi Watts to star. Not too shabby. Described as in the vein of Fargo, the film centers on a woman who suspects her husband is cheating. She begins an affair of her own, eventually discovering that her husband is a serial killer. [THR]