Pierce Brosnan is joining Callum Turner, Kate Beckinsale, Kiersey Clemons, and Jeff Bridges in The Only Living Boy in New York. It's the upcoming film from The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, which features a script by Allan Loeb that centers on a recent college grad who begins a relationship with his father's mistress. Details on Brosnan's role aren't clear, and I don't know if he or Bridges is playing boy's cheating dad. Brosnan can be seen right now in I.T., a tech thriller that I hear is absolutely atrocious, which only makes me want to see it more. [Deadline]
Deadpool and Transporter Refueled star Ed Skrein has joined the James Cameron-produced Alita: Battle Angel. Robert Rodriguez is directing the manga adaptation which will star Rosa Salazar as a cyborg discovered in a trash heap and rebuilt into a fierce bounty hunter by a scientist played by Christoph Waltz. Jackie Earle Haley is playing a monstrous CGI villain, while Skrein will be another bad guy, Zapan, who is in possession of a weapon known as the Damascus Blade. [THR]
