The multi-talented Lake Bell (In a World...), Jon Bernthal (Fury), Omari Hardwick (Kick-Ass) and Benjamin Bratt are set to join Nikolaj Coster Waldau in Shot Caller, a crime thriller from Snitch director Ric Roman Waugh. The film centers on a newly released prison gangster who is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California. [Variety]
The Magnificent Seven will take on Peter Sarsgaard in Antoine Fuqua's upcoming remake of the Western classic. Sarsgaard will play a robber baron leading a band of outlaws who have taken over a poor mining town, forcing the townspeople to hire the titular gunslingers. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, Matt Bomer, Jason Momoa, Haley Bennett, Luke Grimes, Wagner Moura, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Lee Byung-hun star. Sarsgaard will be seen later this year in Black Mass opposite Johnny Depp. [Variety]
