Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) is set to exec-produce Black Lung, a supernatural thriller starring Ted 2's Amanda Seyfried and Divergent's Theo James. Black List scribe Chase Palmer will make his directorial debut on the film which has Seyfried starring as "Del, wife of a Utah coal miner (James) whose premonition moves her to save her husband just before an explosion in the mine traps all the other miners, an act that tests her marriage, puts her under suspicion of state officials tasked with the rescue, and stokes the resentment of all the other women in town. With time running out to save the entombed men, Del’s increasingly horrifying visions hint to something darker at play within the iconic mountain that looms over the plateau like an anvil, a darkness she comes to believe will consume them all."
Although he's something of an antihero on HBO's Game of Thrones, Peter Dinklage has steadily played the bad guy on the big screen. He may be doing so again as part of the Melissa McCarthy-led comedy, Michelle Darnell. Penned by McCarthy, her husband and director Ben Falcone, and Steve Mallory, the film centers on a titan of industry who is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget. Dinklage is expected to play the antagonist yet again. [Variety]
